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1UH1K (WHY JOl'HNAL MA llfll ID, ioo. Crook County Journal BY GIT LAKOLLKTTK Entered t tbe postofflee at Prlne--Hlle, Oregon, as second-class matter. CBLISHED EVERY THIRSDAY Price $ J.00 per year, payable itrlct ' in advance. In rase of change of Idresa please notify ua at once, giT lg both old and new address. IHIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE t GENERAL OFriCES " NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES !N ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES A story concerning this erratic stock market year after year would read much the same. So sure as there is a largo supply of choice hoef and the feed supply about exhausted, tho market hits a sharp decline and someone makes a clean-up off tho hard earnings of tho cattle growers and feeders. Strong orgunitntton and united ef fort on the part of the stock men can remedy this. Nothing elso will. Will the stockmen forget and go about the task of getting together an other bunch of feeders for the packer next year, to be bought at the pack ers' own price? We hope not. Let everyone Interested attend the next meeting of the kcal stockmen. Boon to be called, and prepare to combat the interests that make this condition possible. REVIEW OK LIVESTOCK j MARKET rtm ttll) Your M oney HITS ItMl PER I'KNT VALVES If you trade with us. You pay for no clerk hire or city tax. Wo have none. Your cost is the lowest whulmulo price plus our small per cent profit Our Interests are mutual. , HOMER NORTON Post, Oregon miNEVIIXK CITY RAILWAY An Imposing array of new records, some of which were of a chnracter that producers and the trade In gen eral devoutly trust may never again be approached, featured the live stock market of 1919. In so far as the aggregate volume of business transacted at the leading market centers is concerned, it was the biggest year In trade history, but j much of the combined Increase of np i proximately 1.300,000 head in re-1 ceipts of cattle, hogs and sheep at eev. I en larepe western markets was the re- denced this liquidation and these changing conditions, and this was true not only at one but nil murket centers. Average weights of cattle reaching market centers decreased from 100 to 200 pounds from normal prewar standards. During the latter part of the year long-fed cattle prac tically disappeared, the high price of corn, other concentrates and hay hav- Omaha 245 Hi East St. Louis 181 183 St. Joseph 227 230 South St. l'aul 22 20 During tho first two month of 1!H! and up to March 5, market val ues of hogs were regulated by an agreement reached between tho tlov crnment, producers, and packers. The set minimum prices during this por ing increased the cost ot producing , i ul i in. fin minimum dnilv avoniM prime beef to a degree that very few ; .,, Chicago with differentials for out- feeders had the temerity to face. Follow ing a drought of three seas- Time Table Xo. 5 Effective 12:01 A. M. Sunday, Feb ruary 29, 1920 suit of liquidation, partially enforced I ons' duration In the Southwest, the by climatic vicissitude. Representing j conditions encountered by stockmen fcivful of a declining market when side markets) was rigidly maintain ed, although producers with a big rop of mature hi;a on hand and West Bound Stations Motor Motor Mixed No. 5 No. S No. 1 P. M. P. M. A. M. Lt. Prlneville 7:40 4:45 5:16 Lt. Wilton 7:55 5:00 5:30 Lt. McCallister 8:10 5:15 6:45 Lt. O'Neil 8:20 5:25 6:00 Ar. Prinevle Jet 8:35 5:45 6:20 East Bound Stations Mixed Motor Motor No. 2 No. 4 No. 6 A. M P. M. P. M Ar. Prlneville 8:35 6:55 9:45 Ar. Wilton 8:l 6:40 9:30 Ar. McCallister 7:05 6:25 9:28 Ar. O'Neil 7:55 6:15 8:45 Lt. Prinevl Jet 7:40 6:00 8:45 ABO IT THE JAPS It would seem that the experience f Hood River, California, and Wash ington communities should be suffi cient to convince the people ot this community that the experience here would be much the same. Ochoco Project lands are limited nd should be reserved for homes for white families. The facts are that some of those nost opposed to tne japs seem ready, j,eef fen make aalpn to them themselves, but as it did. in part, a draft on future, of the Northwest the past year have. supplies, the heavy movement cannot ! in trade opinion, reduced the routi ne, rgarded as the w.ish fathered by j try's potential beef supply to an ex the present world's needs would have tent that will he reflected in dlmin it. In the light of Increased product- hed receipts from the Northwest for Ion. several years to come, at best. Tex- Exclusive of approximately 1.500,- I as, under favorable climatic condi 000 calves, 'seven western markets, I tions the past year, was a rompara Chicago. Kansas City. Omaha. East! tively small contributor to the mark St. Louis, St. Paul, St. Joseph, and j etwnrd movement, making a strenu Sioux City, received during 1919 j oua effort to recuperate and being a more than 1,000.000 cattle. With i free purchaser of breeding stock, the single exception of the year 1918 when the cattle run was larger by 800.000, the run for 1919 was numer ically the biggest on record. Rather than being indicative of well-maintained production, however, a study of conditions and the charac ter of the run reveals evidences, scarcely open to dispute, that the contrary is the case. During the last half of the year western market hop pers groaned under an avalanche of both cattle and sheep. Hut Jn at tempting to build up Its depleted herds and flocks Texas misses the op portunity It long enjoyed to depend upon Mexico as a prolific source ot stocker supplies. From what source needed numbers of young cattle are coming during 1920 to restock farms and ranches that have been more or less depleted by the drain incident to war, by dry weather, by the fear of high feed bovine refugees. Including many fe-1 bills and by a very material reduction male cattle, young steers, and calves in the grazing and hay producing from sections of the Northwest, the area, is a question now puzzling the drought conditions necessitating de- minds of many students of the sltua pletion ot herds over a vast pastoral ; tion. Small grains and sugar beets region. Chicago received nearly half-million cattle from the north western range country, including a big contribution from Canada, while St. Paul's record cattle run and Oma ha's near-record supply were made possible by enforced liquidation. It is probable that a summer and fall run of cattle of such numbers as that of 1919 never before yielded as little have taken possession of thousands of acres of former alfalfa country In the west, while pasture and meadow area In the corn belt and adjacent stntes has been cut down to grow wheat. The gradual expansion of the tick-free area is swelling live stock production In the Southern States, a region capable of great ex pansion in a live-stock way, and which la being looked upon as a sec- Tt wsui not the northwpfttem cattle I .,. will An mnH n rcllnvA the wish to discourage such action on the run alone that was deflclent In point ! Impending scarcity of meat animals. art of their neighbors. . of beef tonnage, nor which alone I Among the outstanding features So ong as the people themselves showed evidences of liquidation and 1 of the year's cattle trade were the rel cannot agree, of course ! the sales i will other changing conditions in the beef- ativelv hiKh Cost of Blockers and ke made and the effect is sure to be producing industry. A marked dim- i feeders, the unprecedentedly wide bad for the community. inutiton in the proportion o; aged j range in prices and the violent fluc- I cattle, a record run of calves and a ; tuatlons In values and demand. In greatly increased quota ot warmed THE LIVESTOCK MARKET As previously expected, the Port- up and short-fed stock from the big , 61 ,u cc ' 6 nLiiuuj n u u i u tuv? v, v- Jand market is again climbing slowly, tice ot feeding over long periods tor even though with some relapses. merly had been prevalent all evl- J MICHEL GROCERY COMPANY HEADQUARTERS FOR FANCY GROCERIES WRITE OR PHONE TJ8 FOR WHAT YOU NEED IX THE GROCERY LINES WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF THE GROCERY BUSINESS PROMPT SHIPMENT GUARANTEED Ml 4 V Nuiutek in f Vr5v '?' ! anticipation of a continued broad ex 1 port demand, grazers and feeders I laid in cattle early in the year with j apparently less regard for their cost I than ever before. During the first four months of the year, fat rattle i sold high, weekly average prices of ! beef Bteers at Chicago ranging from I around $15.75 to $16.50. Within ; this period Blockers and feeding ' grades were being bought up early at prices averaging within $4 to 15 per j hundred pounds of average beef steer I values, while pasture land was con- traded at heretofore unheard of I prices. Then came demobilization and the termination of Government meat contracts which cut off an Im mense demand for meat products. Values fell with a thud and the slump was accelerated by producers' anx- fnl titwrtfnA ht, nrt.l ,, nta Int. ! market to unload stock laid In at a high cost. Corn sold at the highest j prices of the year during the summer months, the advance being steady nn- til August, when cash corn sold at Chicago up to $2.10. Top cattle, such as sold up to $20.40 at Chicago on the March high ' spot could not pass $16.40 at the best time in June and the general average fell from about $16 in March down to i about $13.50 in June. Early in June i choice and prime cattle by reason of the fact that they had become rarefies ; at all market centers, showed a grad .and upturn in values that culminated j in new record prices for such spec ialties early in December, when prime grades were In urgent demand for the Christmas trade requirements. Sales were made in the pre-Cliristmas trade as high as $20 to $21..r,0, but the range in prices was the widest, in trade history, common light killing ; steers selling down to $8 and com ; paratively few Btners being good , enough to pass $15 at the time when ' prime Christmas bullocks touched $21 or better. A total of 25,270,162 hogs reached : seven western markets. Chicago, Kan ! Joseph, Sioux City, and St. Paul, dur I sas City, Omaha, East St. Louis, St. j ing 1919, a supply within 190,252 head of the record run recorded at these points the previous year. In creases were noted at East St. Louis, St. Paul and Chicago, the first-named market hanging up a new record of ! 3,640,451, or 383,!)f,l more than the ' preceding year. These gains were j more than offsett by material de- i creases at Omaha, St. Joseph, and j i Kansas City arid by a moderately re-1 ' duced supply at Sioux City. Average 1 weights decreased slightly at Missou- j i rl River markets, and the previous! yera's average was maintained at Chi cago and increased at St. Pul. Aver ge weights for the year fallow: i City 1019 1918 j Chicago 234 234 Kansns City l'jl 201 the control period ended, crowded the market hopper. During January alone 3.390.581 hos were reported ill seven western markets, an In crease if 1 ,000. 49S over tho snme month of 1918. lly the nilddln of February It became evident that the supply of hogs left In feeders' hands had been worked down to something like normal volume. February's In crease at seven western points over the same month of the previous year being hut 1 S3, 692 head, while by the time price regulations had been re moved In March receipts wero begin ning to full short of the correspond ing period of the year previous. Un der such conditions, and with a broad export demand for pork products an ticipated killers became greedy buy ers and the price pendulum swung upward. The producers' sentiment changed as demand for the product showed evidence of assuming great breadth and, with receipts sharply reduced during March and April, values climb ed rapidly, the April market produc ing a $21.15 top at Chicago as com pared with $18 In January and $18.15 In February. During May, June, and July tho trend of values continued upward desplto fairly lib eral receipts for the season, killers indulging In a scramble for supplies during this period and valorizing product on hand. The crest of the advance was touched on July 31, when top hogs reached $23.60 and the general average $11.70 at Chi- j cago. A prolonged series of wild j fluctuations, with the general trend i downward followed, the slump In ' values from tho year's high time to the low Bpot. which was uncovered early In December, averaging more ! than $10 per hundred pounds. The crash vtua nttrlhutedto various fact-1 ors, chief of which may bo mentioned the failure of killers' anticipated In-! ventory profits to materialize owing : to the Inahlllty of European countries In need of American pork products to establish long lines of credit and to' (Continued on Page 6) i ONLY A FEW of these left. They will be the most acceptable prcs- ent you can find. j i IS V? ' v, D Apex Electric Washer Des Chutes Power Company is FRANKLINS THE GREATEST CAR IN AMERICA, UNUSUAL ECONOMY IN (IAS AND TIHE3. LIGHT WKIQ HT AN DFLEXIUILITY. BUI'EIl IOItlTY IN HIDING COMFOUT, SAFETY, EASE OF OPERATION AND DRIVING. 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