The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
AT THE STATE HOUSE.
Manager w. e. Skinner of the
Ft. Worth StOckyards
Calls on the State Livestock
Sanitary Commission.
He is Interested in the Shipment of
Texas Cattle to Kansas Corn.

w E. Skinner of Fort Worth, general
anager of the only stockyards in Texas
from which cattle may be shipped into
Kansas is in the city for the purpose OF
holding a conference with the state live
stock sanitary commission, with view
of Strengthening the company's position
with reference to Kansas business
Fort Worth is so situated that it is
tributary to the great cattle country of
Texas and by reason of the location is
immuned from the operation of the
quarantine laws. That is the yards are IN
the safe territory.
1.-The Fort Worth yards are said Mr..
Skinner to a Journal reporter today, 1.-The
coming yards of the south and west By
reason of our location we now the
very center O the supply of cattle which
comes north.
'-Our property is now worth $780, 900. BY
that 1 do not mean that the property is
representative of that much value but
that money has been expended in bring
ing them up to their present standard.
I'VE propose to double the capacity of
the yards and are planning to ex-
pend $4,000 in building additional pens and
equipping them with first-class accommo-
dations for cattle We have the best OPP
portunities and prospects to be found in
the state of Texas"
Commenting upon the prospects LOT
cattle business this fall Mr.. Skinner said:
eff Kansas gets the immense corn crop
which is in prospect there will be
great scramble among the cattlemen to
get the feeders which will be on the mar
ket. If 1 mistake not there will be q
scarcity of good feeders too. The mar
kets will, of course, under those circum-
stances go up. Last year the markets of
Arizona were drained of feeders There
t.
a scarcity of that class of cattle also in
the south and cattlemen must go some
where to stock up. The first raid will be
to Texas and from the present indications
we will not be able to supply the demand
which is sure to arise in the event good
crops are secured and that now seems to
be almost foregone conclusion
Speaking of the contagious diseases in
the south Mr.. Skinner said:
1--WE have had less trouble this year
than ever before. There is some fever.
of course, but it is dying out and 1 do
not apprehend that we will have any fur
Their difficulty this year. The peculiar
feature of the outbreak which was feared
is that it was above the quarantine line.
The cattle were moved in accordance
with the national regulations but the
winter has been mild and some of the
cattle carried a few ticks which lived
through the winter. The prospects are
that the entire herd of cattle which con-
tanned the fever will die and that will end
the trouble.
Many of them have already died and the
infection has not spread beyond that one
herd. With this condition prevailing for
several months it is difficult to see where
there need be any fear to a further
spread of the disease
Mr.. Skinner is a northern man, having
started in the business in which he is
now engaged while a resident of Me-
braska. He was employed as a solicitor
for number of years by the Omaha
Stockyards company and bad business in
Kansas frequently. He has been in the
south for number of years.