New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-01

Salt Lake to say nothing of the small lots
sold to butchers and packers. and driven to
different points in Kansas. About 10000
heavy beeves are there at present Tor pack
ing at Leavenworth Kansas. Kansas City
and Chicago, and will be forwarded about
the tenth Of next month. Exclusive OF this
10000, there are in the vicinity Tor sale
about $4,000 head of ordinary beef amt
stock cattle, and several thousand COWS and
calves. yearling and two-year oidS. FUR
chasers can find at Abilene every age and
condition of the cattle genus, from the
choicest specimen Of a full-grown steer to
the scrawniest scrub Of sucking calf. The
total number OF cattle of all kinds. both
sold and remaining on hand, at Abilene
this year, can safely be put down at 0,0ot.
The cattle come principally from Mort .
.ern Texas. They are brought there by the
herd, at the following prices per head
Beef cattle. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .Sll U
Mich cows. .......... -.....'...-.' ~
Ihree-yeafs. .......-......', W
Two-year Olds. w
One-year Odds. ~
The average distance driven is about zoo
miles time consumed in driving, two
months; cost of driving. two dollars per
head, exclusive of twenty per cent risk
from stampeding, stealing. etc. Most OF
the droves are brought through the indian
territory, on what is known as the CHS
OF equal numbers of grown steers, COWS,
and three, two, or one year old. When only
beef cattle are brought. the price Is put
higher-say SD to Sl4 per head.
Arriving at Abilene III good order, a mixed
drove is held at about the following average
figures: go.
Beet cattle. .........---....-. ~
Three-year Olds. "
Two-year Odds. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. :
One-year ODDS. ..-.......'.....'.'.'. ("
After being ''grazed" through the STINT
mer the same cattle are worth twenty per
cent more. Beef cattle OF average ncsh.
ready for market. are valued at S-.5.
The cattle sert to market usually Average
about 900 pounds, and not unfrequcnriy 20
over 1909. They sell III ST. Louis and Chi
cage at an average of eight and half cents
per pound; oftener above than below that
price Several sales Were made in Chicago,
last Saturday, on a dull market, at five
cents. and a day or two before that. trans
actions were noted at five and three-quarter
cents for 1850 average.
The larger portion of the Texas cattle,
however, are shipped directly to New York
and other Atlantic cities, where they are
packed and sent on to Europe. The price
in New York averages eight cents per
pound--native cattle selling at an average
of fourteen cents. This makes the value o.
a nine hundred pound steer i'll the New
York market seventy-two dollars, or about
double the st. Louis and Chicago value.
The additional freight, however. yAy nearly
covers the difference in quotations. The
freight from Abilene to st. Louis or Chicago
Especial rates'l is six to seven dollars per
head. Contracts are made by the car load-
q car holding twenty cattle.
The freight from Abilene to New York or
Boston is nearly four times as much as from
ST. Louis to Chicago, and there is in addi-
ton a twenty per cent transportation risk,
growing OUT OF the increased extent of the
route. and the greater time consumed in
getting to market The money actually in
vested in Texas steer up TO the time Of his
reaching st. Louis or Chicago is about
twenty-three dollars, and he brings, on an
average at three and hall cents per pound,
just thirty-tive dollars and fifty cents, lcav-
ing a profit to the seller of the total in
yestment of eight dollars and fifty cents. OF
about forty per cent. The same steer sent
to New York or Boston will represent. on
reaching there, about ffty-iive dollars, and
he sells in those markets for seventy-two
dollars, average, giving but tIifie more
profit than if sold in Western markets AT
prices one-half less. The gains OF the first
hand dealers may, therefore, be set down
at not exceeding thirty per cent, all Incl
dental and unayo idable risks being counted
owned by what is called ''the big cattle
men," who usually have five thousand TO
ten thousand each. Small dealers hold from
one hundred to one thousand each. The
largest dealers control the market and
there Is tacit understanding that they
have the privilege Of putting in any cattle
they can find, at the prices received Tor thcir
own, they getting 81 per head for making
the sale. These large dealers keep great
many hands employed, who do the herd.
ing" and who 90 around at the proper time
and mark and brand all the calves they can
find, for which last named service they re
ceive fifty cents per head, il addition to
their regular wages.
A strong effort has been made this season
by the Union Pacific railroad to draw tho
drovers to Schuyler, Nebraska, instead O
Abilene, but the undertaking has NOS yc'
been much OF success. The Union Paciti,
has reduced its freights considerably tSat
tract thetrade, but this reduction is mor
Than. balanced by the cost and risk O
driving over the additional distance-som
1900 nliles-between Abilene aud Schuyler
The only formidable rival OF Abilene q
present. is Baxter Springs, on the souther
border of Kansas. The business men O
Kansas City are interesting themselves i
Bakers behalf. and will probably succec
in partially diverting that traffic froI
Abilene, at least during the latter pant q
Inc season, WneH tle grazing IL ocjicF /
the southern than III the northern part G
the State.
Many Of the drivers are now making al
engagements to bring through two drOves
year. the first to Abilene and the other t
Baxter Saline, Council Grove, and othc
towns west AND south, are also doing cor
siderable to encourage the traffic. And c
one thing We may reasonably rest assured
Kansas will continue to be the great cent?
of the TeXes cattle trade. no matter whethe
the shipments are made from one or tw
points or are distributed among a half-doze
or more towns in different sections of tn
State Oar advantages of all kinds ar
such that no region north or west Of Us ca
successfully compete with us for any cor
siderable portion of the business, either a
present or in the future.
Minard Hardee. of Schoharie, has bee
nominated for Congress-by the Republican
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