San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-03
THE TRADERS NATIONAL STOCK
YARDS.

San Antonio Gets Ihere with Four
Feet--Something to be Proud Of
The LIGHT on yesterday cast its illumi-
mating rays over the new stock yards Of
J. E. Price. adjacent to the tracks Of the
and @. N. railway, just south Of the
depot, and sincerely congratulates the
horse-dealers of the southwest upon such
complete facilities for handling stock in
this market. The yards front ITO feet on
Medina street and run through to Frio
street, q distance OF $40 feet, with San
Luis street on the north. The yards are
admirably laid out in the form Of par
alleogram. down two sides of which ex-
tend the sheds each 20OX35 feet, with
ample shelter for 600 head of stock. The
yards are devided their entire length
by drive and passage way. In
each corner OF the Medina street front is
hay house with an aggregate stOr age
capacity OF 10 car loads of baled hay. A
wide door opens directly from each of
these feed houses into an alley, extend
ing the entire length of the sheds, and
from which every pen In the yards can
be opened. These pens, I6 in number,
are so admirably arranged for working
that 500 head can DE separated and
penned in lots as desired in 20 minutes,
and that without any crOwding or IN
necessary haste. The roping yards are
very strongly built and the floors 90
smooth and firm that no accidents can
we'll happen. The receiving pen stands
the tracks Of the railway and
no distractions are offered to the ingress
and egress of stock. The fences OF the
yard are all built OF sawed cedar posts,
fencing II inches thick throughout. out
side fences feet high and inner fences
5 feet. and no posts left in pens
for stock to run against, the
fencing being nailed on both
sides of the posts. The racks for hay are
unlike any constructed In the south, and
are first class in every respect. The
troughs for grain and water are equally
and modern. Each pen has
Its separate water trough, stop cock and
waste pipe, and all SO arranged that no
in permitting the water to
run can possibly flood the yards. The
shelter to II out of the 16 pens included
in the yards, and will afford ample room
for 600 head, the capacity of the yards
being 1000 head. The floors of the pens
the yards are made of CON-
crete, rolled smoothly under a heavy
steam roller. The drainage is perfect
and the yards will be dry in the wettest
season. Only practical stOckman. ao-
to cutting out stock under diff
ficulties, can fully appreciate the admir-.
able facilities for cutting of and divid-
ing and penniDg stock under the ar
Of these yards. There ia
nothing in the southwest that compares
with them in completeness, and nothing
superior to them in st. Louis or Louis
vile. In numbering the pens, each
number Ia duplicated so as to render no
retracing OF steps necessary to see at a
glance In what particular pen any
special lot Of stock is to be found. The
Office itself Is neat, ornate, two-story
with stairoases leading from
the street and from the yard to a bal
oOny round the upper story from which
every pen in the yard is directly under
the eye OF the observer. The lower
story is arranged into granary, harness,
saddle and store room. The upper story
into offices, we'll fitted up, and q super
room, handsomely furnished
as sleeping apartment.
Mr.. Price informed the LIGHT that the
cost Of fitting up the yards was little in
excess Of $4,000. Business opens fairly,
stock being still thin but coming rapidly
into condition. Supplies are drawn from
Mexico and west Texas and this years
business promises an increase over that
of last year, when 5000 head of horses
and mules were handled, the largest
handled by any one man In the
United States. Mr.. Price Is quite we'll
known to the local trade and to the for
eign market. In fitting up his yards he
has gone entirely upon his personal
judgment and has built expressly for the
horse and mule trade of the southwest.
His enterprise is big thing for south
west Texas and the horse market OF San
Antonio.