The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-20
BUSY At STOCK YARDS
Larger Business This Week
Than in Six Years.
COME BY TRAIN LOADS
Ninety-Iwo Cars of Hogs
Bought and Sold.

The Union Stock Yards and the Dold
Packing company never have been as
busy as they have during the past week.
There is a hurrying 10 and fro Of men bent
on business from early morn until long
after dark. There is q squeezing of pigs
and lowing Of cattle which causes as
much noise as occurs about the Chicago
pens. The past week has been the busiest
and most prosperous in the past six years
All Of the buyers are jubilant over the
wonderful prospects Of the Union yards
Each one decIaraes that the hard battle
Tor existence has been fought and from
hencefOrward the Wichita yards viii be
among the foremost in the United States
that Wichita had just immerged from a
siege such as Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha
and Kansas City had gone through. The
Union Stock Yards OF this city have tri-
umphed and are now on such a firm foun-
dalton that they viii be even stronger
competitors in the future than ever, and
II is a well established fact that Wichita
has been a thorn in the side of Omaha
and Kansas City.
All during the week and especially yes
terday there was a moving in and out
Of cars filed with hogs. The switch en-
gines, and there were three Of them, were
continually putting and switching cars.
1t was a lively scene and one that made
every one move with more aIacerty. There
were twenty-four car loads Of hogs pur-
chased on the market and shipped to
eastern markets yesterday. Two new
buyers have appeared and they have come
10 stay who are representing two Of the
largest eastern packing houses in the
country. They are delighted with the
high grade of hogs which are being ship
ped here. Twenty-Five cars We're shipped
during the week 10 the same markets as
were the twenty-four cars yesterday.
The Doid Packing company are running
TO their full capacity and are killing all
the hogs they can get. The prices are
perfectly satisfactory TO the shippers and
are within 10 cents of the Kansas City
prices. The difference between the Wich-
tia and Kansas City prices has ranged
from 10 TO 17l5 cents during the week
which is considerably less than the freight
between the two cities, besides the loss
from the longer haul and hotel and other
expenses. There is good and strong
demand for cattle. There are order buy
ers here who viii purchase all the cattle
that may come to the market. The buy
ers are eager for cattle and are paying
in line with Kansas City, which means
better prices in reality than that paid by
Kansas City.
During the week there has been train
load after train load pulled in to the yards
from all over southern Kansas and Okla /
homa and taken care OF in the capacious /
yards. If business keeps up as it has
during this winter and there is every
assurance that it will, the Union Stock
Yards viii be by long odds the largest
industry in the city.
Col r. Z. Bean, one Of the foremost
buyers on the market said yesterday:
The past week has been a red letter |
one for the Union stock yards. There /
having been no less than $500 hogs re-
ceived and sold. There were 90 fun cars Of |
hogs which averaged so hogs to the car.
Our shippers here have become convinced
by the actual sales that there is no BET /
ter market within their reach than the /.
Wichita market. They are not slow TO I.
make use Of it, either The buyers have /
bought everything in sight and still the |
cry is for more. Good, well fattenad /
finished hogs are often sold as they 90 /
from the chutes. The demand for this |
quality of stock is always brisk and I'M
satisfied.
we have always warned the shippers /
and do so again to go slow on light shin /
stuff. There is no money in it for them
and it takes the hardest kind of work to .
get rid of it at anything like a fair price
There is no comfort, satisfaction or profit
in handling such hogs in this or any
other market.
The demand for cattle of all kinds is
far ahead of the supply. The commission
men can not nil one-fourth of their orders.
This applies strongly TO young cattle Of
both sexes and as we approach grass
the cry for more stockers gets louder and
longer. Any one with such cattle can sell
here at the best and highest figures. Good
butchers stuff weighing from 500 10 900
pounds came in for a good share OF in
quiry. The demand is still active from
day to day with more in demand than can
be supplied"
Mr.. J. 3. Hutchinson, n buyer and ship
per of Medford, 0. T. said:
I long ago found out that it paid me
10 ship to Wichita. II does not pay any
one 10 go past this point, all things con-
sidered. I am very glad TO see the life ]
and activity that is in evidence about
he Wichita yards. / was here last Thurs
lay and sold several cars of hogs and
hen went on up to Kansas City. I found
hat l made ten dollars more on the car
~ selling and shipping to Wichita than
would have done had I shipped to Kan
as City. Taking it day in and day out
Annual Sales over {. 600. 600 soxea