The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-02
STOCK YARDS TRADE
Seven Years Review of This
Local Industry.
SHOWS RAPID PROGRESS
On the Threshold of Even
Greater Advancement.


of miles. which not many citizens down
town hear of very often unless special
business calls them there.
This is the allied interests Of the north
side. which include the big packing plant
OF the Jacob Dold Packing company, the
Union Stock Yards company, and smaller
institutions, such as the dessicating works
of Mr. A J. Forrest the cattle feeding
yards Of Taylor & Reeves, the cooperage
establishment, the new fertilizer works at
Dold's and the sheep feeding yards. Ten
years ago these business institutions were
in a very embryonic state and it was
sometimes declared by the skepucal that
It was all a boom experiment The wisdom
of the projectors of the several affairs is
demonstrated by the constantly increasing
yearly business and the immense gains
in the past year alone. The Dold COM
pany were not hasty in selecting Wichita
as a point for location, as tempting in
ducements were extended to them by sew
eral other western cities, some of them
already well Established packing centers.
geographically alone Wichita is nat
uraI stock center, being in the very heart
of a wide expanse of grazing countr yon
which every year larger and improved
herds are added A railroad center whose
several lines ramify in all directions
throughout the southern and southwestern
territory, it is the most convenient and
least expensive point to market this stock.
and the past year has shown more and
more that the large shippers and feeders
are realizing this. This article will not
he complete in this issue but viii be
supplemented by another and full Stats
teal review a little later. In this, how
ever, very fair idea may be portrayed
Of the business done al the stock yards
for the years since 1892 up to and including
1898. Prior to that year the records We're
so handled as to require laborious in
vestigation, which is now being done. The
packing houses, of couse, are natural aids
in developing a stock market. They at
once make a permanent and regular de-
mand for stock and attract It to market
where simple shipping yards are necessar-
lily limited in their absorbing capacity.
The packing season all over breaks in
the months of October and March, these
months inaugurating respectively the win
ter and the summer packing season. The
bold company reralIy commenced business
the following March it was more getting
all departments Of the new plant In ship
shape and good running order The com
pany date the Wichita business therefore
from March, 1889. The Francis Whitaker
plant opened some few months later and
Tor a few years did large business, and
the two houses We're the early pioneers
in forming here the nucleus OF a large
stock market. Then, too, there were other
factors, such as foreign buyers located
here and making purchases on eastern
and southern orders. Clear into the re-
public Of Old Mexico influential firms were
represented on this market with agents
buying for export there. But in and
through it all, hand in hand with mutual
and common cause and interests. the DoId
company and the stock yards have stead
lily worked and steadily grown, each in
creasing the business done at the respect
I've places, and today stock is shipped to
this market for sale from hundreds Of
miles, while the cured meats are also ship
qed out for consumption all through the
same country. As a fair basis Of estimate
of the prospective business of the future.
the submitted tables below will indicate
past As a matter Of fact 1t is right now
on the very Threshold of its career and
this year now started mp viii show even
greater Increase, as 1898 shows a very
fiattering gain over the year previous.
Hogs are coming into this market from
new points all the time. and each week
finds additional firms Coneigning here.
There is little sentiment about the stock
business and shipping and feeding firms
send their stock to the market where
they can do the best, receive the best
treatment prompt service, and get the
best prices. It has been proven by actual
experiment so many times that this mar
ket has all these features and once ship
ped here the shipper continues to be
regular patron. The train service Of the
lines reaching here IS the very best The
pens at the yard are rooted and kept
clean and in the best sanitary condition.
the city water-woTlls being used only.
The various commission firms are old ex-
perieneed stock and commission men, and
have a wide reputation for ability and
prompt, courteous, accommodating meth
DDS
Besides the local packing company. now
increasing their equipment there is The
genial Colonel Bob Byers located here
buying hoss on eastern order and the or
der is limitless and permanent. and the
Colonel knows hogs thoroughly. These
two buying firms together have n large
capacity and are taking care Of any and
all hoEs that come in. and as a matter of
fact on the two days of the past week
which received The heaviest run OF re-
ceipts the market showed the best
strength. and on the close of the trading
The pens We're empded. everything having
been sold and SIT prices compar8tIve,v
stronger than any other western market
An analysis CT the following tables viii
show an Interesting resume in detail. For
the year 1872 The records rs Siven here
commence with the month of July. ard
hence the year Is not significant any more
than Indicating a very fair business
through most Of the dun months. The
year 1855 was the panic year and aIl inter-
ests suffered, the stock business along
with the rest; and Yet with the execution
Of sheep, the figures show that this wear
was IN excess OF the next wear. The wear
1895 showed more receipts over the wear
1894 in cars, hogs and sheep and falling
off in cattle. and horses and mules. The
year 1885 showed an Increase IL hogs and
sheep and a decrease in cars. cattle. and
horses and mules. The year 1887 recites an
increase in cars. cattle. hogs. horses ard
mules and decrease in sheep. The big
jump In 1898 was all along the line and
shows now that the great and fast de-
veloping country Of the southwest. incIud-
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