New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-06

as Kansas-beef packers, cattle dealers, ran
road officials and their wives and daughter
10 see the first shipment of beeVes over the Ihio1
Pacific Railway. They came ~ the appointed uay
and saw a train-full weighed loaded, and started %
the East. and then, IN great tent, they celebalcu
the important event with a feast.
That was on the 9TH OF September. Today Is lne
9th of September and the tent IS gone, and III tS
place is a handsome three-story hotel, painted .
delicate wood color, with green venetian blinds 20
the windows and hard finished plaster on the vans;
and handsome accommodations for so guests nj bed
and board and possibility OF 1eedlng al WelspIea9
tables three times that number. Opposite The hot9,
Is clearinghouse the McCoys alH ! DahheI5 as Gul
buyers of cattle on a thousand hlllsl ana behlu
the hotel Is vast livery stable loi the horses OF S
drOyers TO recruit those kept lot the return IMP anu
10 get I'M those sold when the drOves are SOFA.
And near fbe hotel will soon 90 UP large store, IN
which everything q Texan man OF woman can uecu'
from bacon and flour 10 rcy0Neis shaWls, ana Don
nets will he sold And here are the drovcIs, the
identical chaps first saw at Fair Oaks, and last saw
at Gettysburg Every man OF them mquestionaDly
was in the Rebel army, some OF them nave
not yet worn out al Oh tnTr SistlcIl.e f s."S
shaggy with hair undoubtedly terrible IN night,
vet peaceablv great AT cattle-drlying aud not de-
monstratiye in then style OF wearing siNcshooteIs'
some If them are having lightning prices for ready
made clothing to two Jews, who have eXtempO1iZed
a store out of empty cori-bih' ana are ,tIhhg le
goods they receive from Fort eaNehWoith NJ rom
In In 300 per cent profit almost as fast as they take
them from the boxes. These Rebels are getting re-
constructed last. =, -.
magnificent valley under the care of herders Inc
droyers usually herd after arrival from thirty 10
sixty davs to recruit the animals before selling. Ana
such pasturagel The steer that would not lat here
ysiby would have starved 10 death IN the garden ol
Eden But Just look nj them as they wade IN the
grass and see their Iultcn-market rOundness ana
plossiness. With difficulty ] credit the statement
that there are 5000 head here now. waiting snip
ment. Yet here they are and 10000 more are known
10 be on the way here and full 10000 Will have AZ
rived at the close of the season. -Four times s many
would have been driven hcrctas have beeni II
the stock-meu of the Southwest had known that
there was safe and sure way out from the lookup
which the war first and the toldemanding ruiii3ns
afterward had established. 80 say the most ihtclil-
gent of these Texan droyers and they also say that
2OOOJO head of becVcs will surely be here next year
for sale aud shipment Now mark These ANIMALS,
"beeves" can be bought 10y thousands IN Texas at
from - 10 $40 per head i'm gold. or S2 To Sl4 M Cur
rcncy. They can he driven 10 Abilene at an auul
tiona cost of not over s. head IN from live To eight
weeks time. They can Dc shipped from here To NJ.
Louis at 500 carload. and 10 Chicago forSl'O car
Joseph Mccoy tells me that they can be afforded IN
Chicago at cents gross, with satisfactory margins
to droyers shippers and railroads. Surely the butch
crs of more than one city and State have cot tocome
down and surely there was grateful reason n the
toast TO the Kansas Pacific Railway as the chcapcncr
of beef To the people of the United States. s.. ".