Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-09-25
KANSAS CITY STOCK MARKET
1t is Now the Second Largest
.s in the World. 1919.
Only a Few Years Until Its Receipts
WIN Equal Those OF CbIcagO-It ~
Even Now "A CioseisecOnd for Hon
ors Ray RHymond'- Views After
Personal Inspection.

Personal Inspection
Kansas City is great live stock cen
ter 1t Is more than that. While Official
reports IN all pertaining to the handling
of live stock on that great market shows
that ST. Louis and Omaha have been
reiegated 10 the rear for alt time to
come. and that Kansas City has ia en-
second place with Chicago only in the
lead, It Is eminently clear that the city
down at the mouth OF the Kaw river Is
steadily overhauling the one by lake
Michigan, and few years more will
witness Kansas City occupying first
place in the live stock world, place
that nature ordained IS righlfully hers in
all the broad acceptance of the term.
Ray Raymond, who IS well known In
newspaper and railway circles, has just
returned from trip to St. Louis, Kan
sas City and Omaha. and during such
absence has made careful note of the
shipping interests to the end that he
gives out the following clear-cut and !
unbiased statement; "Kansas City is at /
present the second largest live stock /
market In the world, and Is right now
crowding Chicago for first place A
few years more will give her first place.
And when that comes to pass 1t will be
but the logical sequence Of ths eternu
fitness OF things when attendant facts are
duly weighed and considered. The Kan
sas City stock yards are the most com
plete and commodious ~ the west, and
seventeen railroads have direct entrance
TO them. The loading and unloading
chutes admit Of handling 100 cars at a
time and all the pens are paved with
cypress and vltrlfed brick, while the
alleys are paved to fine finish and
degree of cleanliness pervades the whole
that is remarkable and likewise refresh
ing TO all who do business In and about
there. The Stock Yards company
maintains force of three hundred men
and everything is done with precision,
and dispatch. The yards were first
opened for business June rst, 1871, and
In a quarter o. century have grown
from a small and modest concern TO one
Of mammoth and ever-increasing pro-
portions that command not alone the
i've stock industry of the great west,
southwest and northwest, but even the
east, 10 a degree, that goes right IN
against the gates OF Chicago. Hogs
rom the Mississippi river now come to
Kansas City II Is already a greater
eedir & market than Chicago. Every
lay you will find buyers on the Kansas !
city market who come from Iowa, Illi- :
lois, Indiana and even Ohio, who want
o buy cattle for feeders, and they al 8
Ways buy them. The same thing APP a
lies to sheep. From this, 1t will be g
cen that the city down by the Kaw is :,
destined to go to the head OF the class. 4
\nd | noticed that during the week 1 a
vas about the yards and exchange the C
markets kept up, even though the run v
vas for the entire week and was an ex- a
eedingly busy one all around The b
uyers were there and sellers found b
emand for all offerings, both sides d
Ding a rushing business and ON a basis Il
satisfactory to all interests
oncerned.
The yards cover 100 acres OF ground
he sheep aud hog pens are double ~
ecked The horse and mule market NJ
ample and complete. ST. Louis was a
one time the recognized horse and rs
ule market Of the country, especially le
as it occupying a sphere all its Own on q,
e mule market. But now It IS differ tn
,t-vas,ly SO. In tS9S 81. Louis re to
lived z76is horses and males, while su
ansas City received ss.6o-. m
Our Utfh stock-raisers have taken up es