The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
HORSES AGAIN In DEMAND.
BUYERS FROM ENGLAND ARE Sc
CURING AMERICAN STOCK.
Shipments This Year Are Likely 10
Amount to 25,O00-Good Horses
still Rriuo Good Prices.

NJ them-who had been making
most of their money raising
common or RAILROAD horses-were
ibout the bluest class of men in the
limited States. To-day they are again
in good heart. Then they were con-
r;need that the industry in which their
capital was invested, and from which
iiaey had won their profits for years,
vas doomed, that they must abandon
,oreyer the one business to which they
had devoted their lives and with which
.hey were familiar, and seek other
yays to make their farms pro iucilve.
MANY of them, indeed, sold the +
aorses at big sacrifice aud closed out
without ceremony. Now they are be.
ginning to go into business again,
their pastures aud paddocks are once
more being brought into use, and they |
are satisfied that the outlook Is full OF
promise.
This most desirable change in the
.tatus of a great industry has been |
5rought about so gradually that few
persons not directly engaged In the
horse business know anything about
4. It's cause, according to Mr.. Will
iam T Doerr. one of the best known
aorse dealers IN the United States has
been the apprehension-somewn
tarlily shown, to be surely the
English, OF the facts with regard to
The horse market in the United States.
est was some time last year, SAID
Mr.. Doerr. in couvers ,tion with the
writer day or two ago, "thas our
frien Is on the other side began to send
their buyers over here. They ma
never done go to any extent before.
Possibly this was in some degree be-
cause they did not favor American
horses. but chiefly for the excellent
reason that American horses could
never before be bought nearly so
cheaply as those OF foreign bree ing.
The first English agent went ut his
huviug. perhaps, with some hesita-
| lion. But he soon became confident,
| for he found not only that the prices
a. which he could bay here were
much below the current prices abroad
INIT also that the American horses were
harder, more enduring, grade for
grade, better looking than the Eng
| lish ANIMALS.
"The first shipment of consequence
was sent over rather early last year,
and al soon as the horses were seen
and tested there q rush OF English
buyers to the States began. Ever
since then the shipments have been
constantly increasing. l do not De.
lieve the traffic has even yet reached
it's height, since there are at least a
hundred English buyers now IN the
land, picking up horses wherever they
may. Seven or eight hundred horses
are now being sent over every week,
and should say the total shipments o.
railroad horses 10 England this year
are likely to reach $4,000 or more.
elbow do they use those horses ovel
there? To haul tram cars with. Th'
English have net yet adopted cleo
tricity on their tram lines to any ex
tent, Their adoption of street cars II
the first place was slow, and aitnonSl
they are now using them moro freely
thew are still behind as to the metho'
of hauling them. Some American
horses are being used for other pur
poses, I suppose. but not many. IN
grade OF horses which We formeri.
called srailroaders' are so much bette
adapted to tram work than any othe
sort that they are practically 81
snapped up for that purpose. :,
sfPrices? Well, the American rail-
road horses cost, delivered over there
from s125 to $l75. This, OF course
includes the commissions OF the Eng
lish buyers and the American agents
the transportation cost to the sea
board, and the ocean freight. NO
prices of railroaders have not gone u
on this side, for the reason that ther
is now not much demand here.
"Although the breeders OF .lorse
have begun again in earnest, con
tinued Mr.. Doerr in his talk, "it vi
, he four wears at least before the effee
will be much felt on the market mere
In the meantime prices will go up
thew will be higher, in my opinion
thaa they ever have been. l q
8 not mean that railroad borses WI
bring much higher prices for reason
9 which you already understand.
y fact, in few years there will be q
" railroad horses to speak OF for Sc
i, here. since the new horse breeding 81
! is to be conducted along other line
American breeders are at last nndlr
% out what fine horses are. They hay
II heen learning from the horse show
L whose influence has been exceeding
y far-reaching. They have been lear
q ing. too, from bitter experience.
i :rWhen the trolley came. and Wi
= it the bicycle, and with them both y
u slump ID prices of the cheaper grad
Sc of horses, the prices OF hrst-cls
y horses never wayered. In fact, han
:. some, sound carriage and coach hors
81 were never so high rs now in Il
" country. They are almost
possible to get them. This
because the folks who hs
money to spend use horses now j.
as much as they eyrr did. Th
is have their wheel, all right, for fl
ok but they want their horses and c
iv riages for solid show all tue same, o
h they want better ones than they e
ed wanted before. Why, there are PEI
ito OF beasts going abroad now to b
in tram cars that would have b.