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Show I COUNTRY DEMAND I QU TE JINSATIABLE H MKHYTMN" IN CATTLK AND Hj MOOS AT HPIiKNDin IMUCICM. B Mirep ami IdtntlH -7111110 Sharp Ail- tunee ami Tlicn Hurt or Material Ite- 1 laimw-lloHctrr, Morkrt KtlffcM M mill Show Ailrnnce of Ten to Twcit- B ly-r'he Ccnl N'o iW)rroclcl Prices. B v itespondcnce The Bun. H KANSAS CITY, Wo., Jan. 3. There H v an Home weakness In beet steers taut H ucsday, but the net change for the H t eek wii not material. Tho clone B f the week found everything cleared up and packing houses with bare sup- j.ly ptna. Hence everybody was In a H ' uylng mood today, itccelpts alxteon thousand head. A large sharo of the H receipts were atockcra and feeder. H and trade In these wns actlvo at H monger price. Killing cattlo sold r.t Heady price. Nothing cxtrn good H in steer vra here. Top price II.2S, H middle-class steers $7.00 to 18.00. B Plain warmed up atccr around 18.60. H Cow tnd bull are nelllng at higher H prices. Choice heavy cows $6. SO to H I 00, choice heavy hull up to 16.25. H Veal calve aUo higher nnd up to H it 60 Blocker and feeder conllnun H t move freely. Country dmnnd I H apparently Insatiable. Tho outgo last B week waa twice na great aa for the corresponding week a year ago. and the total ahlpmcnt for the year 191 B M waa never beforo eiunlled, at nlno hundred nnd nineteen thousand head. HI 7,.. a nnd Minnesota rontrlbuted jtlHiut a hundred nnd fifty carload of cuttle todny, largely atookerK and J ramo hog and hecp Merc nlo in- Bj hided from Northern Inwi. Nine J ad "i Panhnndln ycftCngi, around J r x lm ulred pound nvcrnrfc, broueiit Is 00 loJ i, but atocic atexr fro ! I- ing tnnlnly nt 10.00 to $7.00. fneder largely at $6 23 to $7.00 mid aotue Jl it-nliy feedera taken recently In com J . utioii with pinker up to $$.10. J The uittl- market today nn t-ncour- J Ring, particularly with the rather H ieral run J I loir arrived to the number of iev- j fnloni thounand head, Including fire J thiiuwind head brought In by packer. J inol if them iHHight nt Hloux City. J In Chlengo had an nnormou upply J nnd a break In price, nnd rale hero J n.ito largely ten centa lower. Top Ifl'Jij bulk or aulea $0.10. Unlit MJ hog nri- welling relatively better than J n week ago up to $e.S today. Total BBJ hog packed alnrn the Hennou npened J November lt nt Wentern point I "9 per cent greater tlwn u year ago in number of head, but weight aver- B .lie about It per cent lighter thin J ear llunco the net gain I materl J oily reduced, Halea of cut meat nnd product are 40 to 60 per cent heavier than a year ago, and lard ale whow J u big Increone. Hhorlage of ocean J (U I rontrlctlng tPMiort. elktt tin- J Incromo would be grealer. Apparent ly the hog market la on a firm bun It und able to take rare of very heavy tupplle. BJ' Sheep nnd lumb inuile a aharp ad- J ' ance tnit week and then auffered n J rolnpue Today tho run I ten thou- J and head, nnd tho market I ten to J twenty-five cent higher, nlmort up to V latt week'a level. Dent lamb brought Kl $i :& to $.3B today, yearling $S.2S, f wether $6,75 and owe $6.26. Deal- Kl 1 ri nay Northern Colorado nnd Went- ern Nrbraka will run lamb fait now BE until the market break, which would Indicate no akyrocket price during the next month. H ni:cuiti-s wooi, must iiavi: I i'iTi:cnvi: tahut on it H Without 11 protective tariff tho wool ff Industry of the United State will be J vuliject to tho competition from New H Zealand, Amtralla and Kuropo after J the Kuropeau war and will ntund In J the nam i! relation nx tho factorle of f the country which will be thrown Into J 1 ompetltlon with the Kuropean fac J ftrlo. Hay A. J. Knollln of Kana 1 Ity, vice prevldent of the National J Woolgrower nsoclatlon, who 1 now J In Salt Iake City to attend the com- j ing convention of the aiaoclatlon. Knollln avicrta that a tnlttnko wn J made by the administration In ellm- J Inatlng Schedule K by tho Underwood H tariff bill He Buy that with tho J duty taken from wool the f elgn pro- iiucer ha the het of the market In that he can produce hi clip for a J great deal le than tho American . lolgrower ItCglVlH IiOnH of SIlOW. J Attendance at tho convention thin J '.car will be the largett In the hlitory H of the aiuoclatlon and In the opinion uf Knollln there will be many mnt- tern taken up looking, toward better-J better-J Ing condition of the woolgrowerk. Ho awerted that the failure to hqld J 'lie ram auction vule and aheep show in Bait Ijike City waa a calamity to the aheepmvn of tho country and that the dlieaae which became prevalent in the Eaat In November wero re-f re-f Kpoualblo for the calling off of the how BBJ 'At Oil time tho re I coming Into fl the lulled States great qunntltlea of BH ool from Australia hnd New Zea- land." ay Knollln. "Th. good price which were paid for winl In thl toumry latt year were not cu-med by J vorld competition, but because the BM demand for wool on account of t'.ie B&V European war exceeded the supply. BBS Tim price or clothing has not decreas-BBM decreas-BBM d, the government I out more tha BBB po.000,000 In revenue and It may be bbL' ifc more, n n greater amount uf foreign wool ha come into tho United Htatc the pant year than over before. Wool .May Drop. "There I little doubt that the wool-grower wool-grower will Vo on record a favoring an adequate tariff to protect the Industry In-dustry In thl country. With free range and cheap labor, Australia and New Zealand can produce wool and rell It loner than the woolgrower woolgrow-er of the United Htnte. We want protection against thl and wo must hne ome protection to exist It I Mar time now nnd wool price should not be Judged n normal. When peare come In IJurope. wnlch wool utrlkc tho bottom." Menu To (ViiIh Iiutchm". The Australian embargo on wool export will mean iinlnfrcasn of two cent a pound liL,lJomrlc,' received by rtah woolgfmvers for their J810 illp. n net profit of $360,000. In the opinion of Or. 8. W. McClure. sccrc-lar sccrc-lar of the Nutlouul Wiolgrurr' us-aocliitlon. us-aocliitlon. Amdiunccment that the embargo would be put Into effect wo contained In pre dlspatche Inst Wcdnrdiiy. Dr. McClure wild the embargo would have tho effect of Immediately strengthening the American innrkct and thereby bringing better return for the hundred thousand pound carried over from last year anil now ready for the market. lie estimate that 360,000,000 pound of wool to be produced In the United Htnte thl spring will be affected af-fected by tho Australian embargo. Utah' contribution to the national clip Mill be 13,000,000 pound. KiiiiKn City Market. KANHAH CITY. Mo.. Jan. 6. lloga Ilecelpl. 9000; market higher. Hulk $6.60 lo U.8O1 heavy, $6.80 to $6.(0; liacker nnd butchers, $6.00 to $0.66; light. $C.B6 to tG.Tt; pig. $6.26 to $6.25. Cattle Itecelpt. 2000; market steudy. Prime fed steers, $8.60 to $0.00, dressed beef steer. $0.76 to $8.25; Western steer. $6.00 to IK. 60; dockers and feeder. $6.50 to $8.00; bull. $5.25 to $6.25; calve. $6.00 to $10.00. Hheep Hei-elptM, 6000; . market higher, Itmb. $9.00 to $9.65; yearling. year-ling. $7.60 to $8.60; wether. $6.60 to $7.26. ewes, $6.76 to $0.60. Omaha I.lie Slock. OMAHA. Neb., Jan. 6. Hog Itecelpt', Ite-celpt', 18.600; market higher. Heavy. $6.60 nl $6.75; light, $6.60 to $6.70; pigs, $5.26 to $6.35; bulk of rales. $6.60 to $6.70. Cattle llecelpts, 6000; market steady. Native steer. $6.00 to $9.00: cow and heifer. $6.00 to $7.00; We-tern We-tern teer'w $6.00 to V..76; Texu fleers. $6.76 to $0.76; Blockers nnd feeder. $6.25 to $7.50. Hlieei Itecelpt, 6500. market higher. Yearling. $7.00 to $8.25; wether. $0.35 to $7.25; lamb, $9.00 to $9.90. KXOIt.MOCH ItlXltllTri OP WOOI AT HUSTON IIOSTON. Mas., Deo. 31. Wool receipt re-ceipt In thl city for 1916 showed an Iiktvo of nearly 100,000,000 pound over 1911, according t6 figure compiled com-piled today. Tho 1915 receipt were 663.839 bale or 217,914,385 pound i)f foreign, und 781,172 bale or 181.-700,078 181.-700,078 pound of domestic wool. Tho 1914 receipt wero 328,778 hale or 144,145,491 pound of foreign, for-eign, nnd 771.369 bale or 190,730,-629 190,730,-629 pound of domestic wool. The flhliiment in 1915 aggregated 274.-473,433 274.-473,433 pound, a compared with 267.149.306 In 1914. IXK CSOINOTO KMKUY. Sportsmen of Km cry county have raised four hundred dollar and will receive a carload of elk from the government preserve In the Jackson Hole country, according to a statement state-ment mude last Monday by Fred W. Chambers, state fish and game commissioner. com-missioner. Cauhe county sportsmen have been ruining a fund and expect to have enough shortly to buy somo elk. Tho government Is offering the animal to tho Western States because of a short-ago short-ago of feed In the Jackson Hole district. dis-trict. -jr BB- |