Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-29
Making a grand total for the seasoI

/ This is at least 100000 more than the
/ drive Of 1872, and would probably have
I been somewhat larger but for the fact
/ that this market has been somewhat
/ depressed during this summer by causes
/ hereafter explained, which deferred
| many from driving late in the season
/ who would otherwise have brought their
/ herds through.
| These cattle may safely be averaged
at SIS per head on arriving on Kansas
soil, and at that price it would take
| -, 5OO,OO0 to buy therG. Yet they will
be bought, and hot for less than that
enormous sum of money, and that, too,
/ between this and the first day of Decem-
beT. No matter at what point they
may be handled first, most Of them
come to the Kansas city market, giving
/ it's magnitude during the last half OF
| the year that no other market equals.
1t is estimated that about 10000 head
have been driven into Wyoming and
Northern COlOrodo, and about 20, ,O0Q to
Nebraska. About $1,000 will vet be
/ driven into the Territories, and about
100, 600 will be wintered in Kansas,
leaving about 600, 600 head to be disposed
of at the Kansas city market. OF these,
from 20, coo to so, 600 head have already
been marketed; 120, 600 head viii proba-
bly, be taken by packers and converted
into meat, and about 10000 head will be
tanked-that is, kille for their hides
and tsllOw, because Of the low prices
they command in market, leaving
about ll5,OOO to go to butchers and feed
crs in other States than Kansas,
From the ABOVE it will be seen that at
least $780, 900 are still to be handled,
mostly at the Kansas City market, and
from thence will be distributed to the
different parties 70 whom they will 90.
But the Texas cattle do not comprise
the whole number that will be handled
here between this and the first OF De-
cember. At least p, 600 Of wintered cattle
will come from Colorado, all of which
are wintered Texans, but few of which
are fit for beef. The larger part of them
viii 20 TO feeders also. Besides these
there viii be a large number of ma
tive cattle, of which no estimate can be
made.
The total number of cattle received in
our yards last year was 236, ,S02 head.
Estimates of the best informed stock
men place it this year at 100000. The
total number shipped last year was 235,-
779.
As above stated, the shipment Of the
stock to this market has been delayed,
and part Of the drive from Texas was
prevented by different causes affecting
The sale. The chief of those causes is
found in the fact that the Texas fever
has been prevalent throughout the west
ern States during the past summer,
which has caused the farmers 10 de-
mand and secure the enforcement Of the
laws against the importation of Texas
cattle. This has depressed the demand
fJr feeding cattle, caused the present
low prices and dull market, delayed the
shipment here, and caused Texas men
u keep at home herds they intended to
drive through.
No fault has been found with the cat
tie; they are Of exceptionally good quail
ity, and an abundance Of buyers with
plenty of money have been in the mar
ket ready TO take all offerings; but they
have been detained from doing so by
the refusal Of the farmers to allow them
to he driven into the feeding districts.
This objection will now soon be over
come, and we may then expect TO see
the cattle move off lively. As soon as
frost comes the danger of the fever is
over, and farmers will then want the
cattle to feed. Those driven through
have rarely communicated the disease;
they became acclimated in the drive.
The fever has been communicated main
ly by cattle shipped through by rail,
and hence its appearance in so violent q
form so soon after the beginning Of rail
shipments.