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Show HIGH PRICE FOR RANOEJME Record Price Is Paid at Union Stock Yards for Montana Mon-tana Steers. Chicago. Oct 28 Range cattle "off the grass," that is, cattlo that neve have eaten grain, were sold for $157.20 a head at the Union Stock Yards yesterday, a record price for the Chicago market. "It is easy to understand why bef is high when cattle brinp such prices as this," said Melville F. Horln. statistician sta-tistician of the Union Stock Yards "one dealer from Montana sold eighteen eight-een choice Kras5 fed steers averaging 1 572 pounds each for $1" a hundred, or $157 20 a head The prices he received for his stock ranged from 58.50 to $10 a hundred pounds, except ex-cept heifers at $7 S5, and a few poor beeves at $7 50. His entire consignment con-signment of 736 head of cattle brought $81 000, or an average of $110 a head, and not one of them ever tasted grain " . on |