The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
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rHE YARDS 4 suRPRIsE


The yards have been the occasion of
very considerable surprise to the visitors
from local territory, many people not
dreaming that there was plant OF such
magnitude in existence or that they could
find at any point west of the Missouri
river, arrangements and convenienceS to
sucn an extent as have been put IN here.
1t is quite a pleasant surprise for the
stocknlan who brings a train OF cattle to
Salt Lake to have his stock unloaded, say
in ten minutes without any effort on his
own part and when it IS necessary to
weigh them, to find that he can weigh,
say z0). in ten minutes more and get a
certificate of weights which is absolutely
correct. A great many people in shipping
here to local market have been in the
habit of weighing their cattle immedI-
ately on arrival, without giving them an
opportunity to feed or rest. The rules OF
the yard here are such that shippers OF
cattle, unless they otherwise contract,
are privileged to feed their cattle, rest
and water them IN the yards, prior to be-
ing sold. This gives benefit to the owner
insomuch that he gets paid for the natural
weight of his cattle-that Is, q weight
similar to what his cattle would average
MIN on the range. This is the rule in all
eastern markets, and will always be OBJ
served at the Salt Lake yards.
DIRECT TRAcKAGE CONNECTIONS.
All railroad lines reaching Salt Lake
city have direct trackage connections and
facilities with the yards and also a station
agent, This enables shippers who come
in 10 transact all their business where
their stock is being handled and facilitates
the movement of the live stock trains,
preventing the many annoying delays
which are common at points where such
arrangements are not in effect.
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themselves of great service to the ranch
men in this territory in another way,
which is this: They have created mar
ket for hay OF all kinds which heretofore
did not exist. This in itself is of great
value and gives to the farmer a cash mar
ket for an article which heretofore had
been very much of drug on the market.
The railroad companies have been very
kind and considerable and are making
such rates to Salt Lake city as will enable
parties at distant points throughout the
territory to reach the Salt Lake market
with their hay crop 1t is the opinion of
the stock yards management that during
the coming year they will use some three
hundred carloads of baled hay and posi-
bly, more. This means a consumption of
4, 500 tons OF Utah production sold at
home for cash, and every farmer who
reads this article will be pleased no doubt
to learn of this new demand.
AS regards the hogs, too much cannot
be said and too much encouragement can
not be given to the raisers of pork. Here
tofore a great many carloads of dressed
hogs have been shipped into this terri
tory from the Missouri River country.
There is no reason whatever why these
hogs cannot be produced right in our own
country here. Hogs will grow rapidly on
lucern and with little topping of barley
or other small grain become q more desir-
able pork than can be brought from the
Missouri river. 1t is, in very many in
stances, a money making Investment for
farmers to feed their hogs on wheat,
which converted into live pork is of more
value on the market than the wheat itself.
Every farmer in the territory who has q
little ground and Il few acres of grain can
well afford to raise a carload or more OF
hogs and he will find in Salt Lake city
cash market at prices based on the eastern
market, less the freight.
The stockyard enterprise is SO closely
connected with the prosperity OF the
ranchman and farmer that they can be
called almost Identical. In the first place,
the principal object of the yard company
where a man can sell the live stock he
produces. That is possibly the most i'm
portant feature, but the second valuable
element is that the stock yards company,
from the very time OF its creation, COM
menced and continues to be large con-
sumer of the agricultural products OF the
farmer, such as hay, barley, oats and
corn.
From this the intelligent reader will get
an idea OF the place filled by this new en-
terprise started in 1892