Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1912 — TOPPED CHICAGO MARKET WITH LOAD OF CATTLE. [ARTICLE]

TOPPED CHICAGO MARKET WITH LOAD OF CATTLE.

Charles P. Moody Waa Paid BMSO Per Hundred, Which is Highest .Price For Jasper Stock. - Charles P. Moody, of Barkley township, with a load of ‘ 1,260 pound steers, got the fancy price of $9.60 per hundred last Monday at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. This is the highest price, we are informed, that was ever paid for a load of Jasper county cattle. It was withfaf 10 cents of the top price paid in Chicago that day. The cattle were branded Western two-year-olds, which had been fed on ensilage. Ed J. Randle, Frank Hill, S. R. Nichols and J. M, Wasson each had a load of cattle on the market that day. Randle received $8.85; Hill $8.25; Nichols $7.75 and Wasson $7.60. Ed Randle, of Barkley township, who is ono of the state’s ablest feeders, contracted a load for delivery in thirty days for $9.75, which is 15 cents higher than the price paid Mr. Moody. The splendid prices show the high esteem in which Jasper county cattle are held by the buyers in the stock yards.