Principal market receipts show totals and breakdown
Estimated receipts at principal markets are listed with amounts: Carth 19,000 18,000 3,600 8,000 3,000 totals 1,200 5,000 2,500 2,000 5,500 67,000.
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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1908
Page
6
Estimated receipts at principal markets are listed with amounts: Carth 19,000 18,000 3,600 8,000 3,000 totals 1,200 5,000 2,500 2,000 5,500 67,000.
Chicago receipts under estimates show weaker cattle grades but stronger hogs. Cattle about 19 000 head, hogs 31 000, sheep 24 000. top hog price 36.80 with hogs up 10 cents. Market dull for cattle and sheep with prices 10 15 cents lower. Arrivals compare with prior Monday and year.
The listing shows price ranges for steers, yearlings, cows, heifers, stockers, and cutting beef cows, along with hogs and pigs by weight. It includes values for bulls, calves, heavy packers, mixed barrows, prime shipping barrows, sows, lambs, bucks, and yearlings.
Wheat prices for No. 8 and No. 3 quoted at 1.12 to 1.14 and 1.07 to 1.14. Corn No. 2 at 76 to 80 cents, yellow at 1.46. Oats No. 2 white 50 to 50.5 cents, No. 3 white 48 to 48.5. Butter Creameries 18 to 21 cents, dairies 17 to 19. Eyes Firsts 18.5 cents, prime firsts 20 cents.
Chicago trading notes show lower wheat prices with a September delivery closing down 1 4 cents. Corn and oats rise modestly while provisions retreat. Weather favorable to the new crop and bearish statistics weighed on sentiment as receipts and totals shift.
Corrected daily by McCaffrey & Ca and others list butter eggs lard and potatoes with varying price ranges. Poultry rates show turkeys chickens frys ducks and geese, while beef and sheep quotes reflect market easing and mixed steers and cows across weights. Texas and Mexico markets report cattle hogs sheep and lambs with regional price spreads.
Indianapolis August 10 Receipts show 1500 hogs 250 cattle 200 sheep vs 3000 hogs 447 cattle 160 sheep last week Buyers held hogs at higher prices keeping trading quiet but most supply changed hands at an advance of 5 to 10 cents with prices from 6.25 to 6.90 and majority at 6.50 to 6.73 The cattle supply was light and steady demand prevailed.
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In New York on August 10 dress goods houses opened with prices 7 to 10 percent below last year. Orders are arriving more freely while cotton goods await Wednesday’s auction of 25 000 packages. Raw silk values remain firm, drawing complaints from manufacturers.
Daily market notes show grain prices from Bishop Elevator Co with wheat at 87c and corn at 1.05 per hundred, oats 4d, rye 65c. Loganport stock market lists hogs and steers with price ranges and times from W. C. Routh & Co. for market updates.
A group of young people gathered around the Red Cross drug store has organized a fishing trip for the first week of September near Wa bash at Pearson's Mill. Participants include E. B. Dill Walter Foskett Fred Powell William Kendrick and Robert Justice.
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