The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-13
STRIP CATTLE FOR KANSAS.
KIowA, Kan, June u, 1890.

NOVA, Nall, y uUS Il, 1881.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
The great question on the border line
now is the disposition of the cattle now
grazing upon the Cherokee strip, which
the cattle men fully realize must be re-
moved by the first day of October, this
year. In conversation today with one of
the principal men of the Cherokee Strip
Live Stock association was told that
there were only about $4,000 or 100 600
head grazing on the strip now. If this
is true why can't the farmers of south
ern Kansas take care of every hoof of
those cattle, and in manner too that
will be profitable both to themselves and
the cowmen? The question is right here.
Can't every one of these cattle be fat
tened upon Kansas corn? There are so
many of our farmers, taking last year
for an example that have great sur
plus of corn and, yet no money TO buy
feeders with and poor way 10 raise
money to buy anything with is to sell
corn like we had last year at from 10 10
- cent per bushel.
It may be little early in the season
to spring this question, but its coming
and great many of the cattlemen feel
like holding their cattle till the last
moment if such arrangements can be
made with the farmers of Kansas. There
seems TO be a disposition on the COW
mems part to let the farmers take their
cattle at some arrangement even if they
have TO insure them so much a bushel
for their corn. If Southern Kansas
raises an immense corn crop then there
should be no heSitancy about filling hun
dredS of feed lots with those cattle and
thus save the market from being glutted
this fall with lot of range cattle which
fed through next winter will probably
bring &c pound out of the feed yards
next spring. And the farmer should be
very careful about contracting to feed
this class of cattle as all of them do not
feed Just like domestic cattle. South
western and southern Kansas will be COW
cred the coming winter in all probabili-
ties with those herds scattered among
the different farmers here and there, and
each and every farmer should take care
of his wheat straw as though 1t was old
time timothy hay, and he will be re-
warded for it before corn planting time
comes next spring.
The Gamble Bros, of Texas. who are
holding their cattle about forty miles
east of Kiowa have already began TO
make inquiry as to where they might Sc
cure good location to hold some two
thousand head among the different
farmers, and they were informed
by some parties as to a good location
some twenty-five miles west of Wichita
between the two Minnesota rivers near
Cheney, which is in the midst of great
cOrn-growing district. The Gamble
Bros. are both young men, and an old
gentleman, of Texas, who has been in
cattle business all his life, advises them
to stay right here in Kansas with their
cattle, for, in his opinion, cattle are going
to be mighty good property for the next
four or five years. Taking all these things
into consideration there surely is a pros
porous time coming, and that in the near
future, for the Kansas farmers. The
wheat is extra fine in all the southwest
ern counties and is now falling over the
sickle at the rate of about twenty acres
per day to the machine, and the farmers
are heard everywhere, saying, guess we
wont have to take forty and fifty cents a
bushel for our wheat this year.
The people down here are SEEM
ingly interested in the southwestern
Kansas fair to be held in Wichita
this fall and no doubt will contribute
largely to its success, as this place to-
gether with HazeltOn has some of the
best horses anywhere to he found in the
state. They look at it this way. that it
will be the best opportunity they will
have for long while, and they mean to
take advantage Of it.
The kiowa merchants. and in fact all
the people here, are anxious for the day
to come when the strip Will be opened to
as it will doubtless make
Kiowa a great supply point, and no
getting around it. viii be lively down
here this fall when the cattlemen com
mence driving their cattle up into Kan
sas and the settlers begin to drive in to
settle upon the lands which we all think
will be open for settlement this fall.
z. b. d.