Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-01
IMMENSE VALUES REPRESENTED IN
THAT LINE.
$4,000 GAIN IN HOG RECEIPTS
YEAR OF GREAT ACTIVITY AMONG
THE PACKERS.
The Importance of Kansas City n n
stock Market Emphasized by the
Business Done During the
Y~ear-SOme Interesting
Figures.

terprise that has contributed so gener-
ousIy to the prosperity and development
OF the city. is one of the enterprises of
which the city is and always has been
very proud. Since it was established here
twenty-seven years since, simply as a con-
yenience 10 the shippers who We're sending
their stock through TO market, down to
the present time ii has always been SO
managed as to add 10 the value of the live
stock business and has done q great work
in bringing to this point the allied enter
prises that have added greatly TO the COM
mercial as well as to the live stock inter-
ests OF the city.
Started first as a feeding place for
through shipments it has expanded until
! to-day it is doing the greatest business in
its line in the country.
1t covers 40 acres with its sheds, pens.
| chutes and other facilities for handling
the immense daily shipments and has its
advantages so arranged that it can handle
| at one time for unloading 400 cars. 1t en-
ploys about 100 people and conducts its
| business with such ease and in such 4 man
ner that its physical condition is always
| SATISFACTORY " llt S4i4tp'iS aA" ' ~
| add to the other attractive features of
the market.
| II has erected and maintains the greatest
live stock exchange in the world, with 3SS
offices we'll filed with commission firms.
Buyers are here from every other market
| of Importance. purchasing the special kind
of live stock wanted at other places, the
supply received offering such a wide field
for order buying that all of the exporters
and fancy stock purchasers are forced to
maintain representatives here all the time.
Every state and territory west of the
Mississippi river and half a dozen east Of
it contribute each year to the stock sent TO
| this market for sale. There is a demand
| here from the exporters and packers for
| all kinds of stock sent TO market; cattle.
| hogs. sheep, of all grades. find a sale here
Immediately on arrival and the continued
demand from the packers is so great that
it makes a steady market all the year
round.
Not only is this the market for stock ready
for slaughter. but 1t is a great place for
the sale of live stock for feeding purposes.
This feature of the business is growing
each year. Last year was the best in
its history. The ranchman sends his lot
Of stock ready for the feedlots to this
market and the smaller dealer and farmer
purchases them TO feed his supply of corn
and fit them for market.
The records of the yards show that about
95 per cent of the stock that reaches this
market is sold at first hands. only about
5 per cent being sent on to other markets
for disposition. This is a record that has
been a source of continued surprise to the
managers of other markets.
There is invested $50. co0,O0 in the packing
business and the houses have a combined
capacity for handling daily 5000 hogs, TO-
900 cattle and $3.50 sheep. This daily de-
mand makes the city one of the safest and
most reliable markets for live stock that
can be found anywhere.
The strongest demand is for the best
grades of stock and the demand for choice
beeves and choice hogs suitable to the
season is never weak, but is growing all
the time. The finest stock sent to mar
ket is snapped up quickly and packers
have a reputation for being willing to pay
the top price for the pick of the yards
each day. In that line they have strong
competition from the other buyers of the
East and the exporters who are continual
ly looking for the choice offerings.
An element of great value to the live
stock market is the active effort of commits.
sion men engaged III business at the yards.
They keep travelirgmen continually going
through the country working for the mar
ket and turning all the trade possible this
way. They furnish vast sums OF cash each
year to the feeders who are preparing STOCK
Tor market and then have all that stock
sent here for sale. They have ALWAYS
worked as a Unit in trying to build up tne
market and they have handled their bust.
ness with a zeal that was commendable
and with the %striCtest integrity 50 that al
10 time has the market been under sus.
picion nor has the cry of trickery beer
raised. LAND in hard with the Stock Yards
Company they have toiled FOR tie improve.
proportions is Il monument to their yea
and their tireless lahors.
business for the Year.
While the receipts of cattle. calves ana
sheep will show no increase over last year
there will be u phenomenal gain in tn,
number of hogs received at this market
the gain over last year being about 2-O. go
1887 was d phenomenal year and big gains
We're shown in receipts, and il was nor ,y.
pected in the natural course of bushes:
that gains would be shown again this ear
and the results accomplished are wholly
satisfactory to the men engaged In the
live stock trade.
Receipts for the Year.
The receipts by months for the year 1896
OF each class of stock We're as follows: