The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-14

packsng houses are Running r uu t'ide'
and Good Winter Market is Assured
inducements are Strong TO Bring the
for Shrinkage and Fatalities are Small
Wichita is giving the eastern hog and
cattle markets a pretty hard chase now,
n prices.
Yesterday hogs at the stock yards
were within Is cents per hundred
pounds of being as high as they were at
Kansas City. In some instances the
market was even better.
When a reporter for the Eagle arriv-
ed at the stock yards yesterday good
days business had been done and buy
ers. commission men and shippers sat
around discussing the situation.
It was argued by all, both buyers and
shippers, that the future fer the Wich-
tia market is very bright and hopeful
Packing men are keen to get hogs and
they are giving inducements that, 1t is
thought, will bring them in. When ship
pers begin to find that they can do bet
ter at Wichita than at Kansas City or
Chicago they VIII come here.
1t is conceded by all that II costs 25
cents more per hundred pounds TO ship
hogs to Kansas City than to Wichita
from south and southwestern Kansas
points. The fact is, then, that when
hogs bring in Wichita within % cents
per hundred pounds Of the Kansas City
price it is useless to go farther with
them. When they bring in Wichita
within Is cents of the Kansas City
price as they are doing now the ship
pers make a nice profit on a load Of
hogs by selling here.
Some shippers never think Of the
shrinkage of shipment, but the old
timers figure every thing very closely
and they know that the shrinkage
alone between Wichita and Kansas
City costs from cents to IL cents per
hundred pounds. Mr.. Paugh says that
hogs kept over night in the pens, in
transit, by him, shrunk 5 cents to the
hundred pounds and he thinks the
shrinkage would be still more If they
were tied up in freight cars. There is
another point in favor Of Wichita where
a big saving is made that none but ex-
perienced shippers stop TO figure. Very
few hogs arrive at Wichita dead or
crippled, which is not the case with
hogs shipped farther on. Hardly car
Oh nOSS arrive AT Kansas lily ITOTl d
point as far distant as southern Kan
sas out of which from one or two hogs
are not taken dead and from one to
five crippled. This adds greatly to the
shrinkage and should be reckoned by
shippers. Hogs can be shipped from
nearly every point in southern Kansas
TO Wichita in a few hours while they
are the greater part of twenty-four
hours on the road when shipped to Kan
sas City. The longer they are on the
road the higher their rate of shrinkage
is and the greater the risk Of fatalities
and accidents. Shippers are beginning
to hear Of the high prices at the stock
yards and are bringing a great deal of
hogs in but not near enough to satisfy
the local demand. The packers want
more and want them bad
Heretofore the trouble with the mar
ket was that it could not handle the
hogs that we're brought in when the
prices were good. That was on account
Of several reasons all of which have
been removed for this winter at least.
During the past few years the business
condition of the country was such that
packers feared to venture but now con-
fidence prevails again and packing is
going TO be lively this winter not only
In the two houses Of this city but all
over the country.
Shippers bringing hogs here now will
not only find the demand active but
prices high and certain.