The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-08
WEEKS TRADE
A STUNN
Ten thousand Hogs Come to
Stock Yards.
BUSINESS ON INCREASE
Wichita Becoming a Fixed
Hog Market.

The past week has been a sumner on
the Wichita hog market. In its six days
Cudahy bought 5,544 hogs. Armour bought
50 car loads, which makes about 1900.
other packers also got some loads beside.
This business for the week means that
Wichita has a reliable hog market, and
that the railroads, the farmers and even
the big packers Of the country recognize
this fact.
When the Jacob Dold and John Whitta-
ker determined TO build packing houses
in this city the problem of a hog market
presented Itself for solution. There was
a question as 10 whether there would
ever come to this city CT 1ugh hogs TO
run one packing house, let alone two.
Dold sent buyers to the country and
Whitaker bought a considerable number
Of hogs in Kansas City and shipped them
to his house here. Many OF the hogs he
bought in Kansas City were shipped from
points nearer Wichita than the big pack
! ing center on the Missouri river
In the course OF time the Whitaker
| house was closed on account of the ad-
versity CT its owner and very shortly
thereafter there was more hogs on the
market than Dold could pack end then
came the reaction. Just as soon as it
was demonstrated that Wichita could
take care OF the hogs they quit coming
| because the people did not want 10 ship
to an uncertain market.
Some of the commission firms pulled up
and went to other points. But Ed Healy
and Marsh Paugh held the fort. They
saw car load after car load of hogs steam
past the yards TO Kansas City or
! Louis, and they never so much as made n
halt. Occasionally a shipper would stop
and the commission men would set up
the cigars and give him his dinner and If
/ they could not sell his hogs they sent
| him on to the Missouri river.
After a number of years 4. B. Moore
came along and concluded that he would
| open a commission house and help Ed
/ Healy and Marsh Paugh bear the bur
dens of establishing a hog market. He,
! too, was a slayer.
Dold had begun to kill more hogs and
the market began TO show signs of life,
when one warm day, John Cudahy came
slipping into Wichita. He hadn't lost
any packing house. but he was looking
for one. and he said if the boys would set
EN- up handsomely he would come 10 this
city and pack hogs That was a lucky
day for Wichita as well as for Cudahy.
When the money was raised Healy and
Paugh said they would each give Cudahy
six hundred dollars if he would come to
Wichita. Moore fshed down into his
pocket and found three hundred and
thirty dollars. That was one of the most
magnificent exhibitions OF faith on the
part Of men who had been losing money
trying to make hog market for years.
| ever seen in this city Of plucky business
men.
Cudahy came and then shippers all over
the southwest began to say Wichita was
hound TO win and that they would bring
their hogs here. Then the commission
men who had been working in the wild
erness for years and never lost a cent
money belinging to a shipper. began to
reap that which they had sown. They
now have a splendid business which they
earned by their pluck and energy.
Then the Eldridge Commission Co, and
the Johnson Co. came to help out with
the good work. Strange as it now seems
the hog market had only been firmly es-
tablished when the people of this city
awoke one morning to find the DOld pack
ing house in ashes. Then there was an
other halt. but it was only the hesitation
of men who are for the moment startled.
Before the fire was entirely extinguished
at the ruins of the Dold plant word wen
out TO the four quarters of the earth that
Dold would rebuild bigger than ever.
Then it was that the shippers said: