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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1917
Page
7
INVER Peb 7 fair cattle yard activity and steadier overall mood. Beef and cows steady. feeders and stockers in good demand. Hogs sharply lower with tops around 11.75. sheep demand strong but bearish bids. highest lamb price yet on this market reported at 16.46 freight paid. Across Chicago St Louis and Omaha markets tuna lower with mixed cattle and hog receipts.
Hogs and cattle market reports from Kansas City and St Louis on February 7 show steady to mixed activity. Kansas City receipts about 13,000 hogs and 7,000 cattle with prices posted for Bulk, heavy, light, and stockers. St Louis receipts around 18,000 hogs and 2,800 cattle with ranges for lights, pigs, mixed and heavy, native beef steers, cows, and yearlings. Sheep receipts near 7,000 with steady market for lambs and yearlings.
Furnished by the Wyoming Fuel & Feed Company. Prices listed include Cheyenne grain for milling wheat at $1.60 to $1.70, durum wheat $1.60 to $1.70, oats $1.70 to $1.76, corn $2.40, barley $3.60, alfalfa hay per ton, Nebraska hay $16.00, and other forage items with various per ton or per hundredweight figures.
Secretary of Agriculture announces a 26 percent increase in grazing fees for all national forests for 1917, replacing a smaller planned rise. Fees will reflect the actual forage value after surveys on each forest, with further increases only after March 1, 1918, and based on local conditions and market factors.
A Spokane river bridge under construction collapsed late yesterday. Three workmen were killed and one missing, believed carried over the fall. Two others were fatally hurt and nine seriously injured. Twenty-two men escaped uninjured.
Legislative list of house bills including H B 204 revenue tax duties for county treasurer and H B 210 to set advisory committee for agricultural college with horticultural sub station H B 211 to restrict saloon licenses by petitions H B 212 to ban music and amusements in saloons H B 213 to levy assess and collect local taxes H B 214 to enforce municipal court judgments H B 216 for retail liquor license forfeiture and H B 214 opposition by two thirds of the property owners
Pacific Limited arrives 3:15 pm with departures at 3:25 pm. Overland Ltd. arrives 7:55 pm, departs 5:00 pm. Portland-Cheyenne Flyer arrives 1:35 am, departs 1:12 am. Los Angeles Limited arrives 7:40 am, departs 1:30 pm. Atlantic Express arrives 2:25 pm, departs 2:35 pm. Omaha Express arrives 1:45 pm, departs 2:00 am. East bound Fast Mail arrives 11:90 am, departs 11:20 am. Various southbound Denver and Casper services listed with arrival and departure times.
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