The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-01
SOUTH ST. PAUL HAS HANDLED
$1,000 MOREfHEAD THIS YEAR
THAN LAST.
WAS MAINLY WESTERN STOCK.
STOCK AND FEEDER TRADE NOT
THE ONLY THAT is FLOUR
ISHING.
PACKING HOUSES TOoBE REOPENED
Ten Acres OF Sheep Barns Being
Built and All the Old Ones
Improved.

Since jan the number of cattle re-
ceived at South St. Paul exceeds a
like period Of 1896 by $1,000 head. The
increase in cattle in January, 1897, over
January, 1896, was 1000 head; epru-
airy, 1000 head; March, 1000 head, and
April, with receipts of hardly ten days
on account of high water, nearly
equaled last year. May showed an in
crease of 5000 head; June, 5000 head;
July, 4,700 head, and August over A.
900 head, nearly four times as many
cattle being received as in August,
1896.
These receipts are not composed
principally of Western cattle en- route
to Eastern points, there being a less
proportion of such cattle this year than
last, nearly everything going on the
market here this season and selling.
The reputation of South ST. Paul as
a stocker and feeder market is attract
ing many heavy cattle dealers of the
cattle feeding districts of Iowa, Hi
nois, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska,
and the supply of cattle has at no time
exceeded the demand. The smooth,
Well-bred and strong constitutional
Western range cattle are the favorites
with buyers and bring the highest
prices, and South st. Paul is becoming
the natural distributing point. The
cheap grazing lands of the Northwest
are finely adapted for developing
calves into the best qualities of stock
ers and feeders, at a good profit to the
stock growers and farmers, who have
not as good facilities for winter feed
ing as the Southern feeders. The lat
ter also find it more profitable to raise
corn on their high-priced lands and
buy the unfinished cattle of the Mime
sofa and Dakota farmers.
While the stOcker and feeder trade
has been f1ourishing at the Union Stock
yards, there has been an increase in
the sale of beef cattle The increasing
business of the wholesalers has made
II harder this year than usual for the
foreign beef concerns to maintain a
loot hold in the Twin Cities and July
Armour put regular buyer on the
South st. Paul market to buy their cat
tie, hogs and sheep in the yards, in
stead of shipping the dressed meat up
from Kansas City in refrigerator cars,
This heavy increase in business has
occurred in spite of a succession of
obstacles and opposition, and prospects
are IhaC the coming season will show
the same increase in business as the
present year over a year ago. AL
though no packing houses have been
operated for several months, the hog
market is the most satisfactory it has
ever been, and the August receipts are
1,5OO head more than last year The
market is open to the highest bidders,
which, it is claimed, was not the case
when a former packing company con-
trolled the market. Negotiations are
under way for the reopening of the
packing houses this winter, and the
Union Stock Yards company have been
charging the capacity of the yards all
summer by making nearly 100 new
pens for receiving stock About ten
acres of sheep barns are being built,
and all of the old sheep barns are be-
ing improved and their capacity in
creased About 100000 sheep will be
fed here this winter.