The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-01


be loaded at Salina on the Rio Grande
Western, that road having, it is said.
made rate between IS and $40 a car
lower than the other companies would
meet. 1t is the intention to drive over
the mountains to the southern termin
us of the Western and as the feed is
very good the muttons should reach
the market in first-class condition. The
shipment of live stock driven in from
the southern tier of counties out over
the Rio Grande Western is somewhat
of an innovation and will undoubtedly
cause the Union Pacific to look to its
laurels. The latter road has since its
construction held the reinS of power
and naturally took the greater portion
of the business OF the southern part of
the territory.
favorable to the cattle or sheep men
reports received from the east are to
the effect that an advance is promised
and number of Utah people are will
ing to take the chances.
A great rivalry has been developed
between the Omaha and Kansas City
stock yards and both are making
great efforts to secure the trade of the
extreme west, and especially the con-
slgnments from Utah. At present there
are ABOUT dozen commission men do
ing some tall rustling in the territory
Tor business. They are close pressed
by the Omaha agents, and as a result
the Utah growers will more than like
~ secure rates which are now in keep
ing with the price of cattle and sheep.
Some time ago a Kansas City stock
yards official issued circular for dis
tr4pution in this territory setting forth
the many advantages possessed by the
yards over their competitors, and now
the Omaha people come back with the
following singing reply
While there may be some real cause
for apprehension as to the demand for
feeding cattle this fall, the situation is
not nearly so bad as has been imagined
and better feeling is already being
manifested
Iowa and Nebraska, the great pat
rons of the South Omaha feeder market
have been greatly benefited by recent
rains. The drouth appears to be eff
fectually broken and good fall pastures
assured. There will be a much better
yield of corn than was estimated on
the hrst of the month, and with the old
corn on hand, an abundance of hay.
ana the vast amount of corn fodder
that is being prepared for winter feed
these states will be in line to use near
ly, if not quite, as many feeders as
they did last year. and south Omaha is
the distributing point for them.
we cannot assert, as Kansas City has
already done, that "our demand for
feeders this year will be larger than
ever" for this is not true, either here
or there. 1t is folly to talk of a larger
demand for feeding cattle when the
corn crop is short and the prices high,
than when the crop is bountiful and
corn is cheap. 1t is more than likely
however, that the western run this fall
will show a much larger proportion of
beef on account of the prospective
higher prices on that class of stock and
the holding back of the feeders to be
marketed later as beef cattle. This
being so will act s'to reduce supplies to
correspond with the slightly reduced
demand and will probably have the eff
feet to maintain prices on pretty near
ly the same level as a year ago.
"A letter from the general mana ger
of the Kansas City stock YARDS re-
Gently published and commented upon
in Utah paper of large circulation
says, among other things, that Kansas
and Missouri will have a large crop of
corn this year and that the demand for
feeders at the Kansas City market will
be larger than ever. It further says
| that Iowa is pretty well burnt out and
that Nebraska's crop will be fully 80
per cent. short. The object of such a
publication is too obvious to need COM
ment; but as it further asserts that
South Omaha will be practically shut
off from the Utah feeder trade" we
must speak lest it prejudice Utah cat
! tie men against the South Omaha
market. Prejudice, of course, might
influence a few initial shipments, and
! in order to protect these shipments
from deception, we would call your at
itention to the authoritative figures
given in the government crop report of
August /, than which no more reliable
ir7f for tiar, ~, l1alf
Taking Iowa and Kansas, the princi-
pal feeder territory of the two markets,
we find that Iowa's condition on
August 1 was As per cent. while that
of Kansas was 40. The average yield
of Iowa for the past seven years is
264, 100000 bushels while that of Kansas
| is 137.OO0,0OO bushels:
"Forty-five per cent. of 264 100000 is
11S,S00,000 bushels for Iowa this year:
"Forty-nine- per cent. of 1874, 900, 900 is
81, 100000 bushels for Kansas this year:
"a difference of 81, $40, 900 bushels in
favor of Iowa.
THE condition of both Iowa and Ne
braska has been improved in many To-
/ calities since this report was issued, so
we must surely be on the inside
The following from the Wichita
Eagle of the 18th instant, tells you
something of the conditions in Kansas
! and Missouri, and also of the larger
demand for feeders at Kansas City:
Four hundred cars of cattle were 60
! ing back to Texas and the Panhandle
yesterday over the Southern Kansas.
Thousands more will be reshipped to
the ranges of the west to winter
Stock water and grass have so failed
in Missouri and Illinois that there is
no demand for stockers and feeders by
the farmers. The Kansas City mar
ket has been glutted with these cattle,
which are too thin for beef, and too
! light to feed corn. There being no
pasture or water they are being re-
turned, breaking many of the owners
and bankrupting big ranches That
don't look very encouraging for
Kansas and Missouri We have a
customer who has a large bunch of cat
| tie in Kansas that he will be compelled
to bring up into burnt out" Iowa to
feed.
I'm truth, thee rop estimates for Mis-
souri, are much better than for either
of the three other states mentioned,
but Missouri is also patron of South
Omaha and a good crop there will send
many Missouri buyers to this market
for their feeders
HORN SILVER CONCENTRATES.
Initial Shipment Received in This
City Yesterday.
The initial shipment of concentrates
from the new concentrator of the Horn