The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-11
MANY CATTLE KINGS
GREAT WEALTH TO BE SEEN AT
COMING LIVESTOCK SHOW.
CHICAGO WILL BE CROWDED
Millions Upon Millions Of Dollars Will
Be Represented at the Ex-
hibition That Opens
in December.

During the last so years there have
been many conventions held in the
United States representing vast accumu-
lations of wealth and progress, but the
first great congress Of the goth century.
the fifth annual convention Of the Ma
tional Live Stock association. represent
ing the entire industry Of the nation.
which win assemble in Studebaker's the
alter. Chicago, Ill.,, December 3. will rep
resent as much enterprise and more
money than any gathering Of men ever
assembled on the globe.
In 1850 the total value of the Eve
stock of every state III the Union was
less than 81. 100000; today IL is ST.
555. S27.375. a sum incomprehensible to the
mind of man.
Number Greatly Increased.
In the year named there We're but H.
O0O, 900 cattle, 21.723.a20 sheep, 4,S96.05O
horses and mules: today the figures are
5O,SO2,4 14 cattle. 156s3.551 horses and
mules, and so, POS, 600 sheep.
Then the grade of this stock. except
in some sections of the extreme East.
was of the scrub order. which grew and
run wild upon the pastures.
Today no finer blood nor more improved
methods can be found than in tha United
States. The magnitude Of, tins Industry
can only be comprehe, led by compare
son.
All stock yard companies. packing
houses, commission exchanges and a
large per cent of the freight income of
all transportation companies are merely
incidents to, and dependent for success
upon the efforts of the live stock grow
ers and feeders. which term embraces
every farmer in the Union.
The Same as Cash.
Live stock and cereals are the same as
cash in hard. Were the former con-
verified into cash it would take every dol
lar in circulation in the Cn:ta1 States
and then the commission man wculd
have to borrow s2,225. 100000 from for
eign banks to liquidate the bill
The cereal crop of the country is
valued at $2025, 1855, yet tho live stock
is worth more than all the cereals,
metals, cotton. lumber, sugar and tobacco
combined.
The live stock men could buy the stock
of every national and private bank in
the United States and England and then
have millions of money left for specula-
ton. They could own all the stock yards
and packing houses in the country and
have surplus Of more than billion
dollars.
Could Do Much.
They could stablish stock yard COM
pany as large as the Union Stock Yards
and Transit company of Chicago in SO
cities, with a capital Of 100000, eco each.
and one in every city in the Union as
large as Helena. Montana, each with
capital of $14,22O,0O0.
They could build three trans-con
tinental railway lines from the Atlantic
to the Pacific and have left $3.50. 900, 900
for a reserve fund. They could own
every steel works and smelter in Ameri-
ca and Europe and have billion dol
lars left to pureha Sc Gre with.
They could control every oceanic trans
portation company in the world and have
left sufficient sum to run them for 10
years without taking in a single dollar.
Power in Politics.
There are 5000, 900 of these noblemen
in the United States. If they were
to become united upon political matters,
as to vote as unit, they could elect
every officer in the nation from the
president to the most humble, back
woods road overseer.
There is absolutely no limit to the pos
sibilities of these men if they should
collectively divert their force and influ-
ence in any direction.
This, the greatest industry of the coun-
| try, will hold its fifth annual convention
on the date and place already stated.
| There will be several bills approved by
| them which the incoming congress will
be asked in no uncertain tones, to pass.
Every delegate, therefore, should at
tend every session, commencing at 9aO
a. M. and permit no other affairs to
Interfere with this duty All railways
have made round trip rate of one fare
! plus 81.
| Greatest Of the Kind.
| During the same week these men are
exhibiting the product of their ranges
and farms at the Second Internationa
Live Stock exposition at the stock yards
which will also be the greatest of the
kind ever held on the continent.
The citizens of Chicago are making ex-
tensive preparations to entertain all dele
gates and visitors and cordially invite
all interested to be their guests dur
! ing the week of December 2.