Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-09-10

established rate per head for weighing
the stock, and per hundred pounds TOT
feed supplied. They are responsible TOT
the stock. rcctipted Tor from the railway.
They act as agent IN paying freight
charges aud are liable lor damages on
account Of injury TO what they handle, D.
caused hy negligence on their part.
The commission mcn sell the receipts,
they are the people 10 whom the
shipper looks FOR results Their
business Is to know the value o.
what they have TO sell, know a'l
the buyers. and the one who IS mos
likely to want what they have Tor sale
see that the cattle arc properly handleu
in being yafded, fed and correctly
weighed pay all the expenses connected
with the Shipment, and collect tne PIo'
cecds OF iht sale rom the purchaser.
/ These thing seem simple enough; put IN
fact are OF great moment TO Tue shlppct'
The most important thing i1f nun IS 70
know that the firm who handles ms pu,l
ness Is not only reliable bot skilllul ana
able To gct the iull value OF what IS IN
trusted to them There are great many
commission houses at the yards, some are
better than others. As IN other businesses
hat are so large, dishonest men. get
mixed up with honest ones, and shippers
some times are delmudcd OF their prop
erty. On the other hand there are iirms
whose inicsity and skillul methods have
caused their business to grow 10 immense
proportions. Take the firm Of Clay,
Robinson g. Co; II IS not an uncommon
thing Tor them to receive and sell $50 car
loads o cattle IN a single day a, Chicago
during the range season, without men
tionng their sales OF hogs and sheep.
These big h uses have divided up the
yard, among them; that Is, they always
ward the business consigned Ia them IN
certain pens. 20 Gar as Il can be so ar
ranged. This does not leave much OF the
desirable space vacant. and shippers who
do not consign to commission firm az
a rule have 10 take what IS left and ind
themselves poorly located and out OF the
way. Those that buy the daily receipts
can be included under several heads, the
most important being the packers like
Amour. Swift, Morris, Hammond and
n dozen Others, OF whom We viii have
more to say. Then there are the SLIP
PER-, under which head We can divide
them into the exporters, who buy stors
10 ship TO Europe Those who buy Tor
shipment To outside cities ike New York,
Boslon, Piisburg aud other points, and
the farmers who buy stock to be sent
back to the country to be fed.
In addition to these are the distillcrics,
who buy many cattle to eat the refuse
from their plants. Then there are the
city butchers, who buy few head, aud
the spectators, who buy to resell
on u possible rising market Az
these people are In competition
with each other. Tbs packers
have their immense plants which are
entirely separate and distinct r 10 the
a OK Yard, TO keep running IT, y ave
their daily orders cunning IN ho .heir
agents In the big cities, and NUT puf'
chase what they require. When supplies
are not excessive with ~ lily good
prices naturally go higher, II the buyers
have orders TO hll. when the conditions
are otherwise. prices decline. There is a
great law Of supply and demand that
applies to this in crest as well As to all
others. hut Il must be remembered that
all these buyers are In close competition,
one against the other. particularly 50
Tor the good class OF siuil offered Com
bination dues not exist among the buyers
and could not for natural reasons. For
example, last week, there were purehas-
ed IN the Chicago yards and shipped, by
buyem other than the packers located al
the yards, 3y,s57 cattle, a. 50l hogs and
i2,65S sheep or a total Of i,glo car loads
II Is iayorile subject OF the Populisis to
howl about the great meat combination.
and the crushing power OF the Packing
House monopoly; which they claim has
ruined the stock growers by breaking
down prices, forcing the small butchers
out Of business and many other evilsfl
on the Pacific Coast this cry IS iavonle
one OF the political agitatofs, and the
labor cfanks. What would become OF
the live stock interests Of this country
without the great markets. What would
become OF prices II we depended on the
old fashioned white 'aproned butcher,
who bought his meat and killed
Ia The Lord only knows what.
The entire proposition Is different now
no matter how large the receipts have
been, these yards have cared for them.
! the commission men have sold them and
| the owners received lhcirTetums in cash,
without delay The packers, with their
/ modern methods OF rclngt ration, aps
able To hang up and cool, keeping IN
definitely, immense quantities Of meat,
Then they have invented new methods
Of using what they huy-canned beef,
corn beet, all kinds Of soups and con
denscd articles are tuned out. So when
there ate dfoughts that destroy all the
feed and halfstuved animals OF all kinds
come plling In, these much'abused
''monopulists" SO out to 'the greedy
and graspng stockyards company" and
buy these poor, hlll'stsrved stock from
the droulh district for what Il Is worth.
lcan ago. when drought and hot winds
parched up the crops and there was no
feed for the cattle they died, and the fol
lowing yeat, little piles OF bones re-
manned TO tell the stock man of his mis-
fortune. Now. these same bones arr
not so often found, hut are used by the
packers. when the cattle are too poor fol
anything but canning, To make into Ter
iilzers which the farmers are glit
enough to buy back and put on thrii
lanl
One OF the great benefits to the peopl,
from the creation OF the stockyards anC
packing houses Is the inspection by IN,