The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-15
LONG ENOUGH
One of Wichita's Leading
Business Men Reveals
CATTLE TRADE PALACES
How Southern Kansas Stock
men Lose Money.

Mr.. g. L. DaNlcSco mas returned RON q
business trip 20 Kansas CITY. and while
there spent several hour. OF each day a,
the cattle pens OF the Stock Yards COM
paly. There te observed peculiar oon-
dtion OF affairs. which = significant and
greatly OF interest," 20 wichits and the
building Up OF 9 large cattle market At
tins point IN che frst place he recited
little Incident which shows tina; at pres
ent Kansas City dictates ne market TOR
al this southern country. \ cattle man
came IN with several cara CT feeders ard
placed them on sale a, once He lef; them
IL me hands q hts commission firm and
started for h ONE He was from Comanche
county, and the cattle were loaded al
Coldwater. II few hours lis next near
est re:ghbor on an adjoining ranch came
into the yar.iz TO buy hs winter .ne OF
feeders AMI locked over me lot OF his
nighbor. not knowing OF course. who
owned them. He Dough, mem and re-
shipped them back 20 Coldvster Just -
hours after they had left that point AZ
Wichita the two men met, and took me
train here for Ensiewood. Then for the
first time the buyer learned ne had come
clear up 70 Kansas City. paid railroad fare
and other expenses including commission
fees. transportation two ways on che cat
tie. when he could have gone into mis-
neighbours pastures and IN al hour fixed
up the deal. This IS not OF isolated case
as many more could be ci.ed. ana II goes
10 show that all sellers OF cattle ship 20
Kansas CITY markets and all buyers at
once 60 there 10 get them: in other words.
IL is rhe headquarters for all the cattie
industry in this southern country. As
a hint OF the extent OF this falacy, IL may
be said Uhat IN the past few weeks fully
100 200 head OF cattle have gone through
here for Kansas City from the territory
and southern Kansas meaning 10 the
commission firms UP there about so 900.
ana one well known firm in a position 20
know. told Mr.. David.on that probably
from 10000 to $1,000 OF them had come
right back here for range feed This
condition is worse this year than ever
before. since the market price for stockers
is so stiff, and feed being plenty also.
One day Mr.. Davidson wa. there, there
were 1900 fresh arrivals In the cattle d.
vision and 1900 hold overs and all were
cleaned UP with only slight slump in the
an owner Of herd to induce a buyer even
to go look at his cattle in the pastures.
at any price. They all rush right OF for
the mouth Of the Kaw. believing they
can do better. Sometimes. IT Is true. thai
tn eowner will look az his daily paper or
market report and price his cattle on the
groung as they would have brought the
day before at the market but more often
an agreement could as readily be reached
between buyer and seller and evade use-
less EXPENSES. There are many young cat
tie and immatured cattle being hurried
into the market and these, of course sell
for fattening. The butcher stuff and
dressed beef stock are scarce and also
at a stif price. The stuff lie pretty close
TO a premium as an immense number OF
heifers and cows have been slaughtered
in the place OF half fat steers. Now Mr.
DavidsOn's idea among several very log
ical ones to build up right here at the
threshold Of the great cattle zone a sub
stantial and permanent market, il fret
OF all 10 protect what We have got al
ready. or Instance, the city OF T ,peka
has a rigidly enforced ordnance which
places a tariff of - cents per hundred on
all meats, cured or fresh, which are
brought into the city from the outside
concerns The result Is that the Chas.
Wouln Packing company is a rapidly
growing Institution and q packing center
means logically a 1--we stock center Ship
pers send their cattle TO the best market
and. other conditions being sGual. TO ne
nearest one. With ;Wchita a packing
center, rightly protected. there would De
In fea4a
OF large and growing cattle market here.
The two naturally 20 together. az ey1-
denced by Omaha, Sioux City. Nebraska
CRy. ST oe and Indianapolis. Wichi,s
Is already a long way toward this era.
for the simple reason mat tnis = zoe nat
ursl point for al tslls tributary country
and Is ~ looked upon b. cattle men
throughout 5ais oct. Mr.. Davidson trav-
eis extensively through western Kansas
and ne says ne is surprised az the vide
feeling or warm Interest among stock men
FOR Wichita or instance he szys thz,
from all over that section afflicted mem
b.rs % their families are a. once sent
20 WIc+lita for treatment and hospital ser
vice TTey To-Ild rather ship here were
a cattle marse- once hrmly stared and
one % ne flrst meas 70 ms very dss. re-
be end j. the protection % our ALREADY
w.A stared packing interests and proven:
= rJ-louS ana unfair coTnp.titiol which
amounts 70 prohibition One q the ch-et-
e. factors In this citys growth would BE
a i've 4Ock center. aod Il e Already az
ser-ins i-Se,f ve-T encourAStnzly Ti.l
hors n cattle s-e eV-n mere ava la5le.
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t.e - ART -ais way I'D stop here ~.
Davidson a4so stopped q Bes vrloat Mon
dzy ard 81 says that a. here's throGgs
mere are Ulor.1s tJ~arc re railroads
and rushing i-tc make. TIE grzss ls
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