Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-10-01
American Beef Tor t.reat Britain.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY HEAD OF CATTLE 8
FROM THE CoMMUNIPAw YARD TO GLASGOW

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY HEAD OF CATTLE SENT
FRoH THE CoMMUEIPAw YARD TO GLASGOW.
On Wednesday last the Europa, of the Anchor
Line of eteam-ships, left New York for Glasgow,
having on board, among the general cargo,
shipment of fat cattle consigned to an extensive
cAttle-dealer in Scotland. Messrs Bell & Sons
of Glasgow, are largely engaged in the cattlt
trade, and within the past few months have in
troduced a new feature into their business, by
importing live stock for the Glasgow meat maj
ket from this country. Tie famine prices which
beef has been touching from time to time in
England, within the last ten years. has inducet
speculatDrs to look around them for a means of
increasing the supply, aud amoag the m sny ex-
pedients which have been retorted to perhaps
none ID deserving OF more attention than thai
which aims at supplying he market from the vas
prairie lands and feeding districts of the Unite.
States. The demand for this article Of consump
tlon has been for years considerably in excess
OF the means OF supply, even though the pro-
ductive soil OF Ireland has been converted al
most exclusively to stock-feeding purposes, un-
til she has been designated by English statesmen
as the mother Of hocks and herds" H.
all the other leading branches of industry the
products of this country have long since found
their way into the European markets by mean
of the increased facilities OF transoceanc steau
navigation and now it remains to be seei.
whether the meat markets of the large manufac
turing cities Of England and Scotland can bt
supplied from the stock-yards Of Chicago an0
wow AOihs Nhbh tuo past LWO OF lnfet
years large coEsignments of preserved mea
were received in England from Australia, aud
sold at much cheaper rate than beef produced
at homo could be purchased, while American
pork has long since been thrown upon the mar
ket with great advantage to the consumer
The question, as to whether the products OF
our immense grass-farm are within the reach OF
the English Consumer is one Of the deepest i'll
terest not only to the stock dealers both here
and III England, but is also of immeasurable
Importance to the people OF Great Britain. Graz,
fed beef can be raised on rome of these pasture
lands OF the West and sold at So per hundred
live weight, with considerable profit to the pro
ducer. This would be little over five cents
pound. The Union Pacific Railroad which open
ed up the communication with these regions il
1870, ships cattle from the Rocky Mountains t,
Chicago distance OF over 1OO0 miles, at al
average OF from 80 to IS per head Cars capa
BILE OF carrying seventeen head of cattle can b,
freghted from Chicago to New York for S14O
or al the rate OF IS % per head, and now it i
stated that live stock can be sent to England il
prime condition with much less injury or deter
ioratlon OF weight than would reeuit from cou
pie OF day trantit by rail- II this trade can b
opened up with the English markets upon
large scale the price OF beef there must in futur
be regulated by the supply in the great cattle
raising States of the West and til facilities al
tordeu by means OF trans-coutinental all
trane-oceanic communication with these region
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