The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-12
KANSAS CITY MARKETS.
Review of the Sheep, Cattle and
Grain Trade.
KANSAS Cry. August 9th. 1885.


KANSAS CRY, August 9th, 1885.
Correspondence Of THE HERALD.
Thinking it might interest the read.
ers OF The HERALD to take leok over
the stock yards of this enterprising city,
l will give you Yesterdays doings. The
cattle yards were all full, just how
many / could not learn, .frst-class
selling high; Texas sells low. was in
formed by a stock man that Utah's
cattle of all grades were in demand and
were bringing a better price than any
other, except native-born. Now that
the rates are the same, 1t might be
worth the cattle mems while to come
this way, and if they cannot sell here
they have still the eastern market before
them. The horse market is still except
for I,200 to 1900 pound horses, OF
mares of the same weight and class.
One car load of sample Utah horses
have been here over a week and not all
sold vet, getting about the same price
as they would have brought in Utah, II
the times had been good there. Ten
head have been sent ON to Pennsylvania
as a sample. Many Oregon horses and
mares have arrived and some are still
on hand. Texas has sent and is still
sending stock here, and as they can sell
from $25 to $50 per head, they monopol-
ize all the cheap trade, hence there is no
use for Utah horses here until they can
produce better one.
Yesterday was, a large day in hogs
here; 277 carloads, or about 25,0OO head,
arrived. | took stroll among tne
pens, and as far as the eye could reach
there was nothing to be seen except
black Berkshire hogs, with a few SANDY
pigs, but not one of Utah's favorite
long nose, little white Chester that the
farmers there are so proud of, so much
so that one will do them. never think
ing where the next pork will come from
for the balance of the year. To these
sleepy people will say that the rest of
the pork that Utah uses comes from
here, Omaha and Chicago, and you
raise wheat to buy it to the tune of
half million yearly, and then you
cannot sell enough wheat to pay for
the pork. 1t may be news to many of
Utah's people, but it is nevertheless
true, that in no year yet have they ex-
ported enough of wheat to pay for the
pork imported; and still we talk of
economy, frugality, and 60 on the same
old sleepy way, letting our lucerne
rot, the mice eat the grain, the yege-
tables decay. Twenty carloads of wheat
arrived here in one day How many
hogs would that fatten with the lucerne
now going to waste? Whose fault is
all this, you say? I can say it
is evident am not old enough
to even guess, and afraid not young
enough to see charge. This is great
city, full of enterprise, and go-a-headit-
iyeness. The weather has been re-
markably hot, the thermometer start
ing in the morning at So and dancing up
to 106 very often, the rains only seem TO
aggravate the thermometer; so it goes
up just the same, Darkeys and water
melons are plentiful, and if Kansas City
had been called a mulatto breeding
farm most assuredly would have pro
nounced tia great success. A gentleman
asked me if knew Governor Hurrah !
of Utah. 1 told him supposed | knew
the gentleman alluded to. He said they
had his half brother in this State.
AS you are not going to fight In Utah,
[ Will return as soon as | can.
Yours.
H.