The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-10
THOUSANDS IN IT.
The Weeks Basi ness at the Stock Yards, Pack
ing Houses and Grain Markets

I The business at the stock yards for the
week has been very heavy. There have
( been received :. 64l cattle but only small
I portion of them were sold They were
however. all handled, fed and watered. FOR
which the Stock Yards company are paid,
and which helps to swell the amount Of
money handled daily for live stock The
market shows a marked improvement
since one week ago, and good cattle sell
well and are 10 10 Is cents higher.
The number of hogs which have been
shipped TO all the markets in the west
during the past few weeks IS unprecedented
! There are a great many young light hogs
being marketed which should have fifty TO
one hundred pounds more meat on them
being put on the market. The reason for
all this il obvious, and is Of course owing
to poor prospects for a corn crop. But
Kansas i not alone in the partial failure
Of her corn this year. a. il j. juss as bad "a
some parts OF Missouri. Iowa. Indiana,
Ohio and Illinois The hogs have come
50 fast for several weeks that it has kept
the packers very busy dressing the hogs
and curing the meat and getting IL ready
for shipment They are also killing con
siderable many cattle and shipping them
The demand i active for the products IF
Wichitas packing houses a. the people
who know what choice cured meats are.
find such in the article cared here. and
will take no other after once using
ir. The shipments Of ube two houses
for the week and the amount
Of money received for It is
most gratifying aud j. as follows. Nam
Der Of car loads shipped ont. -eyenty-ssx
or an average Of nearly thirteen cars a day
The money value oF this large amount ~
product j. upwards Of one hundred and
twenty-Six thousand dollars. which Of
course comes back 20 the packers aud Is
paid ouc by them for labor and live stock
and thus the ball keeps rolling and Wieh-
tia live stock ard packing interests are a.
sIning immense proportions There
seems 10 be very wide difference in the
opinion among shippers as - the number
Of hogs Ia the country contiguous 20 th5s
market. some say there are thousands ~
young hogs and pigs, and Others are
Of the opinion that the TAT hos VIII b.
very scarce this fall some also claim
that the corn viii b. very light and al.o
that there j. very hJtIe Old corn IA the
country. while others say that lots % aeli-
Will run forty bushels 20 the acre this
year. and that there ia more Old corn being
held ia this part of the country than vac
RAISED two years sZ0. They all admit.
however. that the wheat and oats were
never better. ana look A. the prices as com
pared with one year ago. The situation is
certainly much brighter than 3. was Two
YEAR, ago. and there VII. without qle--
t5oU, be enough hogs come 20 thss market
during the next year 20 Keep both the pres
enr packing plants running q their fullest
capacity. and Il the wuter - u8t very
much mistaken st VIII require another
large plant 70 use what hoes vlll come %
this ularzsr-
The prospects f9r Wieh.ta's booming
ore of the IarEess O. TIE Zre4t live stock
AID packing Csat@rs Ct tie west IN TIE
near future - certainly very fatteEi5Z
The new wheat = coming n qgIts l.ler-
ally ssd good p-ic=s ars bang paid Par
rse-s ss-H1 di=Da-ef - rod n - TIE mo-
of tEeir old eorn gnril they ars assured q
the result q tsis yszFs cr3D.