The La Cygne Weekly Journal Saturday January 29, 1881 Mr. H.P. NICKELL this week sold in La Cygne 54 hogs that averaged 320 pounds each in weight. He received $4.42 1/2 cents per 100 pounds, the highest price paid here during the winter. At his feed lot near Trading Post he has a steer, two years old, last June, that recently weighed 1640 pounds.