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Provision BUSINESS At THE WEST The cool
weather Of Thursday and Friday last, would natu.
rally the attention OF tue Cincinnatian in the d
rccon OF the slaughter houses and packing estabsh
ments. Such the with us, and Saturday OF eIt
noon spent in a somewhat prolonged ramble among
the different concerns TO that branch Of city n
dusry which display itself in efforts Tor provisioning the
world. We found the supply Of cattle ample, the
hog pens pretty well flled and the implements
Of thirteen of cur packers in vigorous operation
may therefore he said, Notwithstanding the unfavora
day II being now warm and rainy that the Pork
has fully commenced The houses at work, no far as
advised, those Of Messrs Yeatman x Rowan,
Childs Co.. Henry Lewis, Davis X Brother, Miller
Brown, g. Davis, Jr, Reynolds Irwin, ~ p. nglehaIt,
Powers, s. B. Hunt, 5chooey Son, Lot Pugh, and N.
w. Thomas Yeatman < Rowan we're first In the field
this season. and have cut up since they commenced $500
head Miller Brown have cut 1872 head, and the other
houses varied from 100 to 1900 head each The number
cat up far this season. altogether, 10 little short o.
twelve thousand head Many OF these were unusual
ly large for earlyhogs and most Of them that we saw,
fine stock. considerable portion Of them are
packing on drovcrs account ff those cutting ~ the
packers for themselves large portion u to be maze INTO
bacon, to fill early orders. Among the prices paid f0r
different lots rate the following viz ~ DO, Co.
ga 65 6S 2 70, u.s. and for one small lot avcra-
ging 2l6 lbs. So These prices above the present
views Of packers but hardly meet those oi drovors
There eastern packers in tho city but so far
only as lockers With 4 to months supply In New
York and Boston they do not seem very Of lay
ing hold prevailing rates And drovera, on the other
hand with the knowledge they have as to the number o
hogs feeding this year. seem some Of hs largest OIL Them
at least to think that packing on their own account
better than selling at less than 20 Cincinnati


Gazette, Nou. l8.