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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
2
Market prices for livestock and farm goods listed with ranges for hogs cattle and poultry. Includes live hogs eight to nine dollars, hay and straw per ton, potatoes and apples per unit, butter and dairy products, beef quarters, and various bushel prices for Northern corn. Prices shown as read from the market page with unit notes and weight terms.
Winnipeg prices list hides sheep skins and wool along with cattle sheep and hog values. Vancouver and Montreal markets show varied beef and hog prices. a Medicine Hat roundup tracks stray cattle and brand accounting, with range-clearance and owner payments anticipated.
Clay Robinson & Co reports native beef steers showing range 4.25 to 9.75 with bulk 4.40 to 7.90 per 100 pounds. Choice to prime cattle sold freely but few offered, while many under 6.50 sold dull with 10 to 15 cent declines. Western ranges attracted buyers, easing demand for plain natives.
Market notes say receipts meet trade needs with good quality cattle selling well. Western export steers bring 4.25 dollars per hundredweight, freight on buyer. Old Country markets hold steady with steers and butcher cattle priced from 2.75 to 4.25 dollars. Hogs at 5.75, with possible rises. Liverpool and London quotes given.
The bulletin predicts a northern storm reaching the Pacific coast around August 19 and crossing the Pacific slope by August 11. It warns of a hot spell in the south, cool weather in the north, and possible light frosts in northern mountains near August 17. The storm ranks as one of the three most severe of the month, with dark clouds and thunder.
Observer C W Ling reports Havre endured near record July heat with a mean temperature of 71 degrees and a high of 103 degrees on the 31st. Precipitation totaled 0.39 inches, the driest July in 28 years aside from three exceptions, with twenty four clear days and seven partly cloudy.
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