Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-09-25

OAHVhaA inspection.
Nm Kansas City is great live stock cen.
ter. It 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
RELOCATED to the rear for all time TO
come, and that Kansas City has taken
second place with Chicago only in the
lead, 1t is eminently clear that the CITY
down at the mouth of the Kaw river i
steadily overhauling the one BY lake
Michigan, and few years more will
witness Kansas City occupying first
place In the live stock world, a place
that nature ordained is rightfully hers in
all the broad acceptance of the term.
Kay Raymond, who is well known in
newspaper and railway circles has lust
returned from a 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 ard
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 the eternal
fitness of things when attendant facts are
duly weighed and considered. The Kan
sas City stock yards are the most com
plete and commodious in the west, and
seventeen railroads have direct entrance
to them. The loading and unloading
chutes admit of handling 400 cars at a
time, and all the pens are paved with
cypress and vitriied 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 Ist, 1871, and
in quarter os century have grown
from a small and modest concern to one
of mammoth and ever-increasing pro-
portions that command not alone the
live stock industry of the great west,
southwest and northwest, but even the
east, to q degree, that goes right up
against the gates of Chicago. Hogs
from the Mississippi river now come to
Kansas City 1t Is already greater
feeding market than Chicago. Every
day you will find buyers on the Kansas
City market who come from Iowa, I'LL
nois, Indiana and even Ohio, VINO want
to buy cattle for feeders, and they al
ways buy them. The same thing ap-
plies to sheep. From this, it will be
sssn that the city down by the Kaw is
destined to go to the head of the class.
And | noticed that during the week
was about the yards and exchange the
markets kept up, even though the run
was for the entire week and was an ex-
ceedingly busy one all around. The
buyers were there and sellers found
demand for all offerings, both sides
doing rushing business and on basis
evidently satisfactory to all interests
concerned.
The yards cover 100 acres OF ground
The sheep and hog pens are double
decked. The horse and mule market
is ample and complete. St. Louis was
at one time the recognized horse and
mule market Of the country, especially
was it occupying sphere all its own on
the mule market. But now 1t is differ
ent-vastly SO. In 1905 St. Louis re.
ceived 27,615 horses and mules, while
Kansas City received 52,6o7.
Our Utah stock -raisers have taken up
Kansas City, and Nevada has also got
in line on the same proposition. There
is not a day goes by that one cannot
meet a Utah man or a Nevada man
about the yards there. The railroads, |
too, are in line, and give the shippers
fast time over the road. Our local stock |
yards here in Salt Lake are also profit
ing from the building up of the Kansas
City market, as Nevada shipments are
fed here and use Utah grain and hay,
that In turn benefits our Utah farmer.
Nevada shippers also have another adj
vantage, as they find in Salt Lake gen.
eral officers for two roads, and general
agents for eleven foreign lines, SO that
they are, while here, sure of good
place, in close touch with an army of
railroad people. All these things count.
At Pueblo there are fine yards, and
nearly all the Utah and Nevada runs
that feed here are run to Pueblo for
feed and rest, and from there on into
Kansas City without feed.
At La Junta are also good yards for
feeding, and they do big business on
lines coming over the Santa Fee from