The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-06-15
CONDITIONS FACTORS.
PREFERENCE OF SHIPPERS.
Establishment Of Immense Packing
Plants and Enlargement Of Stock
Yards win Make Good Market.

IT. NJ. Taylor, former general agent of
the United States bureau OF animal indus
try, says In the Strawn News:
The establishment Of the immense pack.
ing plants Of the Armour and Swift COM
panies a Fort Worth and the renovation
and enlargement of the stock yards at that
place Will In the natural order OF things
mako Fort Worth the great cattle market
OF the Southwest. The success attendant
on fattCning cattle on cotton seed meal
has reyolutionized the cattle industry Of
the southwest, and VIII enable producers
to supply Fort Worth with fat cattle every
day in the year This is a necessary re-
qulrement In order to enable the packing
plants to furnish their customers with regu-
lar supplies or meat and It has been
owing To the absence of these conditions
that previous efforts TO make Fort Worth
a great cattle market have failed. Fort
Worth VIII without doubt in the near
future be to the rapidly developing South.
western empire what st. Louis is TO the
Central states and what Kansas City is
TO the Middle West. Fort Worth has a
larger growing territory tributary TO it as
a cattle market than any other city In the
United States. The tide of immigration
has set in TO Texas, which Is looked upon
everywhere as the field Offering the great
est Inducements to homeseekers aud in.
vestors, and with the development Of new
farms the number of cattle will be in.
creased and the quality improved Stock
farming will be followed In Texas with
where climatic conditions are less favor.
nnle. Tho cattle industry In Northern
Mexico Will receive n great impetus by
reason Of the building up of the Fort
North cattle market and that lection viii
become an important factor in the support
Of the new packing plants. New Mexico
and Arizona cattlemen will extend the
business OF fatteping cattle on alfalfa and
sugar oeets, and ship hem to Fort Worth
market, Cattle buyers In the Fort Worth
market Will be compelled to pay prices
Tor the cattle they purchase based on the
laws Of supply and demand, because Fort
Worth is on the direct route TO Northern
markets from Southern and South western
points and shippers feeding cattle al the
Fort Worth stock yards win always have
through TO Northern markets, ~ not salts.
ned with prices offered NJ Fort Worth
Such large numbers OF choice fat cattle
Will always be found on sale in the Fort
Worth market as 70 attract buyers for OK.
port who can make shipments to EvroDe
oy way Of Galveston lust as well as t6eS
are now doing from Boston and New York
Fort Worth Is emphatically n cattle CIT
Where every man, woman and child is In
Iu!i sympathy aud accord with cattlemeu,
an anu 10. oihtr thlngs being equal It is quite
natural that Fort Worth should have
preference with Southwestern SINNERS.
VINO VIII be Influenced In assisting 10 buiid
up Fort Worth by their kindly feelings
uon. VI "u'huh ac-
NATURAL conditions, regardless NJ nj, .,
forts TO favor Fort Worth or opnose lie
progressive march, will In time make ~
me second greatest cattle marker In Mo
United states, and the News In heroldinr
I Is snn near the advantages possessed hy
Fort Worth as the hest market for sontE
western cattle, Is simply doing us Arr -
the people OF the Southwest with vbonS it
interests are identified. "''" 10