The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-12
oAz1LEMEE TO ooSyENH
a Meeting 20 Discuss Means 70 Help On the
Rowing lndusery.

a Nsetins 20 Discuss Means 70 Help On the
Rowing Industry.
DENvHR, Dec. 1.-THE remarkable growth Of
the live stock industry In tho West In tho last
year or two and the great influx of cattle buyers
and sellers to this city within tho last few
months led some time ago to the calling OF
Q national convention of stock growers In this
city for Jan. 20. &c, and ~. Invitations wero
sent. through tho Governors of tho various
States and Territories, to live stock organize
tions everywhere. and tho responses received
indicate one OF the largest conventions Of the
character ever held in tho West. There doubt
less will DO 5000 cattle and sheep men In at
tendance and the results are expected to DO far
reaching.
This city has assumed within the last year an
Importance in live stock affairs as surprising as
unexpected. At one time Denver was famous
because of her cattle kings and queens, but
there was q slump in tho cattle business, then q
big rush TO get out of 1t. which resulted In the
industry being considered a poor investment.
Tho great ranges of tho West. where hundred 8
of thousands of cattle had boon grazed for tho
markets of the East, were surrendered to strug-
Cling farmers. who sought to mako q living
from soil which made good grass but poor corn.
Ten or twelve years ago the crash came, and up
to 1898 little interest was taken in tho bust
ness. Since that time the cattle business has
been Improving, and is again one of the great
industries Of the West But new conditions
have arisen, new problems face the cattlemen
which must be solved. and the business must be
conducted upon AN entirely different basis from
what II was ten or twelve years ago.
that have como about and now comfort tho
cattleman Is the necessity Of having a point
transact business. This cattle exchange must
be s%omewhere near the breeding and the feeding
earrz on .S Sna tr Dsevef This Is 3 p'SS saanss Of f tSs ta e.
that the best breeding section OF the country Isl
tana. Wyoming and Nebraska and further east
in the corn States Of Iowa, Missouri and Kansas.
find some place TO meet and transact business.
The result has been, that this city. being the
Eas found her live stock business increasing by
leaps and bounds. The business Of the local
and saSdd this hss ss sssn wifi EIf0 snoS tds dSabis t tho 'h nSS SSssr q
cattle handled IN q any brI previous year; ,...,.
attempt to feed and fatten cattle. The smaller
companies breed their cattle on the ranges OF
conditions are the most favorable. But the
breeder makes no attempt to fntten and put
breeders sell their cattle TO the cattlemen OF
Montana. Wyoming. Nebraska, Kansas. and
Missouri, who cannot breed with success but
who can feed and fatten the cattle on the great
quantity, OF grasses and corn raised In those
he has no corn and his grasses are too short. In
former years 1t was the plan OF the cattlemen to
breed their cattle in the South and when the
time came TO fatten them to have y great round
up and drive the cattle overland by trail to the
Northern grazing and feeding grounds.
With the slump in the trade this feature Of
the business disappeared, and as the herds we're
smaller the moro convenient way of shipping
them by rail was resorted to. The cattle would
be loaded on the cars in the breeding State and
carried to such centres Of the trade as Kansas
City and Omaha. Then the cattleman known as
the feeder would visit the market. buy his 500
tlemen as local freight rates to take them back
nyas the .nnnfry which thaY had inst fra yAllad
TO his ranch located in the interior or Western
part OF Kansas or Nebraska, After keeping these
cattle three. four. or i've months. until they be.
came fat, he was ready to sell them. But before
they could be sold they had " be taken back to
Kansas City or Omaha. and the man who fat
tened them had to pay another freight bill.
Through an arrangement with the railroads
Denver 10 able to handle this business and save
the cattleman his local freight bills. A feed and
transit arrangement has been entered into by
which q man who buys cattle in Denver can
ship TO Kansas City, to Omaha or Chicago, with
the privilege OF unloading his cattle in Kansas,
Nebrasba a, Missouri, or Iowa. Alter he has fat.
tened them he can reload them and, on the orig.
inal bill OF ladinR, take them TO tho market.
This Is a big item to the feeder, and Is one of the
causes of tho revival in the business.
Answers accepting the Invitations TO the con
yention have been received from Governors NJ
A. OLero OF New Mexico, w. A. Richards OF
Wyoming, Silas A. HolcoInb OF Nebraska, Rob
ert u. Smith OF Montana, J. w. Leedy OF Kan
sas, and C. NJ. Barnes Of Oklahoma. Gov. j. II
Budd OF California has written that II 1t Il i'm