The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-03
] HOTEL GOSSIP.

The Colorado cattle markets have been
almost depleted by the big. demands from
the east said j. N. Pearce of Pueblo at
| the Kenyon yesterday. THE dry spell
up to July 2 was responsible for an earlier
market than usual. but the prices OBJ
tanned compared favorably with those of
previous years. All through the months
OF July and August. Colorado and west
ern Kansas were deluged with copious
fields and benefited the cattle materially,
enabling the raisers 10 hold them until
fall for possible higher prices. Yearling
steers are in great demand in the Mis-
souri, river markets. 2-year-olds are now
selling for s2S or $50 per head and 10 T.
year-olds for SS5 and 81 80. Alfalfa grass
IS abundant in Colorado. but the Pueblo
for livestock. 1t is a dangerous article
OF diet when dampened from rains or ir-
rigation. as IL generates gases in the
stomach which the cattle cannot throw
on, ana 1t kills them almost instantly.
We tried the expekiment last spring on
twenty-five cattle that had just been fed
with hay; they partook sparingly of the
alfalfa, but three of them died of its eff
fects within an hour. 1 know it is looked
at favorably by some Utah and Idaho
cattiemen. but we keep our cattle away
from 1t.
We imported some cattle from Mexico
last spring, but they haven't so far proved
10 be anything like our home-bred steers;
they haven't the frame to build on. 1t is
California this season. Most of them
went east last year. and the San Fran
cisco markets have absorbed this years
product for local consumption.
The rise in the price of beef was no
surprise to any one at all acquainted with
the trade conditions. The combination
of a shortage in the supply. coupled 10
an increased demand brought on by the
era of prosperity. naturally sent prices
soaring. I'm surprised they didn't go
higher. The best grazing lands. that
know of are on the line of the Missouri
Pacific. in western Kansas and eastern
Colorado. where there are unlimited
quantities of buffalo grass and gramma-
S. Meyers. prominent manufacturing
jeweler of Boston, was quartered at the
Knutsford yesterday. Mr.. Meyers ex-
pressed some strong opinions on high
tariffs and their outcome, the trusts. in a
conversation last evening 1.-The trade
conditions in the east were never better
for manufacturers, said Mr.. Meyers,
and much of the universal prosperity is
due to the fact that the national legis-
lative bodies have quit their everlasting
monkeying with the tariff. AS long as
that question is free from agitation, so
long will trade prosper and confidence
sure as fate. insecurity will result mer-
chants and traders will hold off until
some sort of settlement is effected. and
another cycle Of depression will come
cannot continue with justice to the la
boring man, the producer. All the ma
tural rights to be derived from good
times are and should be his. but instead
he has to shoulder a heavy burden of un-
natural wrongs. Under the present tar
i'll, much foreign stuff is prohibited entry
into our ports and the consumer is de-
MED the privilege of getting q good arti-
Gle for a reasonable price, while the man.
ufacturers combine, drive smaller con-
Germs to insolvency or absorb them body
and soul, and advance the price of their
wares without giving a cent extra TO the
workingmen who produce 1t. Trusts are
the children of high tariffs and the ma
ton cries out against them. This COM
binatfon of capital means financial death
to would-be competitors in a small way.
The trusts can afford to lower their prices
and keep them there until they either kill
small competitors or force them to ac-
cept their terms, no matter how autocrat-
ic they may be. A lower tariff would un,,
horse them, and much as | am opposed
to another general tariff bill being
framed, would rather go through year
or two of business stagnation in conse-
quence of it than see the country and its
life blood, the workingman, everlastingly
crushed by the unfeeling monsters. the
trusts"
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Richfeld; A. Block. St.. Louis: II. r.
Wade, D. w; Bewena M Toledo lie John my W.
Kalamazoo, Mich; Augustin c. Haub,
Mrs. r. a. Hirshfieid. Boston; J. r. Edg-
hill. Nephi; A. Bybee Milford: G. j. Tay-
ebIo. Colo; R. Waldron, Jackson. Mich;
d. j. Mccormick. Chicago: BENJAMIN j.
Schmidt, New York; J.. H. McLeslie; J; s.
Banner. San Francisco. David Keith.
Master p Keith I'M Mrs n Mary d Duke Park Park
Freund. Mrs. l.. Sutro. Mrs. A. Harold.
New York; Mrs A. Dick and three chill |
dren, Miss Lucy Waddell. Wilkes Barre !
Pa; NJ. C. Jones. Omaha; John j. Aiken
and wife. Los Angeles; Charles A. Mitch
ell. Philadelphia. W. a. Mayer, Chicago; |
c. H. Riege, Fresno. Cal.
wey.-H. F.. Ames. Chicago; Mr.. and
Mrs NJ B. Bloron,- Sacramento; Anna
den; Mrs Dyner. Mrs. Drummonds. Bing-
ham: e. II. Mckenzie, CINCINNATI; John
Lamb. w. A. Hempel, Omaha; II. A.
Arps. Cary. Ills.
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NJ. Williams, Springville; Louis g. Lube,
Spring Valley. Mimi; George w. Rose,
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sew Topeka; L. z. owen. Mrs. Owen,
Mo-; j.. S. Morris. j. Nelson,
6. p. Osberg, Colorado City: n. a; Serb,
ner and wife, Stockton; j. W. Hendry ana
wife, Utah; B. Wilkins, Coalville; M M
Mrs. r. J. Smith, Miss Dora Woodward.
franklin. Ida; H. T. Goldsmith. Deep
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and wife. Lehi: Charles D.. Turner, Cor
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