Wichita eagle., 1889-10-31
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY.
BUSY SCENES PRESENTED OUT AT
THE STOCK YARDS
Something About the Great Increase in
Business at the Stock Yards and
Packing Houses Expressions
from Hundreds Of Farmers
who Patronize the Home
Market-Increased Facil-
tiles for Stock Grow
ing Next Season.

Yesterday animated scenes of industry
were presented in and around the stock
yards, and at the packing houses. The
pens at the stock yards were filled with
Texas cattle, and up to o'clock in the af-
terroon twelve car loads of hogs had been
received. In Wichita's stock and packing
interests, it was by far, the busiest day Of
the season, and showed more than three
times the amount of business transacted
for corresponding of late years. His
business, in fact, has been increasing every
day since the completion of the new yards.
They are large and have all modern con-
venieniences and shippers can always be
furnished with accommodations equal to
those of Kansas City or Chicago. The new
stock yards are intended especially for
hogs and native cattle, while the old yards
are used for quarantining Texas cattle
and for shipping and feeding purposes
Crowds of shippers from all sections Of
Southern Kansas are at the stock yards
every day, and the crowd
increases as the excellent
facilities for caring for stock are made
known to them. The shipper can dispose
OF his cattle, hogs or sheep here and re-
turn to his home the same day. For this
and many other reasons Wichita affords
infinitely better stock market than
Kansas City for the farmers of southern
Kansas. The prices are the same. to say
nothing of great saving in freight rates.
Every stock grower within d radius of 100
miles of Wichita now knows an appreci-
ates these facts and hence we may expect
an enormous business in this line when
things gets fairly under way. The pack
ing houses already established here have
surpassed their most sanguine expecta-
lions in business, and hundreds of new
customers are. every week, being added to
their lists. They have already created
demand for their products In the eastern
markets, and this demand will
continue to grow until they will be
compelled to add an Increased
capacity for Strengthening. Farmers and
stock growers throughout this entire sec
ton have received such marked encour-
agement that they will double their ener-
gies next season, not only in advancing an
improved system of agriculture, but in
raising hogs. sheep and cattle for this
market. This is the universal expression
heard daily among farmers at the stock
coupled with the advantages of first
class home market has already placed
Wichita on the high road which leads to
commercial prosperity. 1t could not posi-.
bly, be otherwise because we are located in
the very heart of the best stock growing
section of the country, with all the ship
ping facilities that could be desired,
and more than two hundred miles
from any other leading market. This
feature of itself places Wichita in the line
of leading commercial cities extending
along down from Chicago to the gulf. and
for this reason shrewd meat packers are
moving out in this direction in order to be
at the base of supplies. Clustering around
the great packing industry will soon fol-
low line of first class jobbing houses rep
resenting every department of trade and
commerce. Many of them are already es-
tablished here, and others are making ar
to come. Our commercial
travellers representing Wichita wholesale
firms are daily extending their lines into
new territory with the most fattering re-
suits, and daily we are gathering in bust
ness that has heretofore been given to
older cities. Let the good work go on.