East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-27
.sTOCKYARD WILL
BENEFIT FARMERS
THEIR INFLUENCE WILL
BE FELT THROUGHOUT STATE
Much Good Livestock Territory Trlb-
utary TO Portland-StOclSyards Az
ford a Competitive Market-Port-
land VIII Become Base of Meat
Supplies Which VIII Directly Aid
Farmers.
(By ID. o. Lively, General Agent
Portland Irnio,, ctool,,,or1.

(By d. o. Lively General Agent,
Portland Union Stockyards.)
To a rancher or farmer who has
been accustomed to marketing his
animals at the livestock market CEN
ters no word is necessary as to the
utility and necessity or stockyards
such as are at present located on the
peninsula, just beyond the city lin
its. 1t may be said that stockyards
are the parent concerns of livestock
markets-they are the nucleus
around which is centered the livestock
market industry.
Packing houses abzatoirs, commits
sion forms FOR the marketing of live
stock the feeder buyer, the order
buyer and the speculator all exist and
have their being around stockyards.
Their influences radiate throughout
all the territory that is tributary to
and from which they draw their sup
plies.
StOckyards Feed Packing Plants.
Packing houses are never built ex-
cept in the proximity Of stockyards
and it Is safe to assume that the big
packing plant of the Union Meat
company, near the present stock
yards, is not the only institution of
its kind that will contribute to Port
lands supremacy as the livestock
market center Of the Pacific north
west.
1t can safely be assumed that what
has been experienced in the other
livestock market centers will be dup
Heated at Portland II is the interest
Of stockyards to locate other pack
ing houses as every buyer helps to
increase the demand for livestock.
Omaha, Forth Worth, and South st.
Paul, each had. at the time OF the
construction of their yards, more diff
ficultles 10 overcome and more adj
verse conditions to confront than
Portland has. In connection with the
stockyards at South st. Paul 1t was
stated in 1903 that there would never
be hogs enough to make a market
there because 1t was not in the corn
belt It is only necessary to add that
in 1905 st. Paul received nearly a mill
lion and quarter of hogs.
Opportunity for Farmers.
There Is so much good livestock
territory directly tributary to Port
land that there can be no question
about the growth and success OF the (
Portland Union Stockyards. With the |.
establishment Of a modern competi- |
tive market, such as Is now afforded. /
the farmers and ranchers will have /
no hesitancy in preparing a better |
quality of cattle and sheep and hogs |
and with the increase in population,
home consumption will take care Of
practically everything that is made
into meat and its products in the
packing houses that derive the great
er part Of their supplies at the Port
land Union Stockyards.
The traffic manager of one of the
big railroads centerng in Portland
made the statement a few days ago
that there would be an illimltable
fleld or demand LOT tHt llNSStOCh plV-
ducts of Portland packing houses. The
countries along the west coast OF
Central and South America consume
tremendous quantities of lard, bacon
and canned meats. The orent-Man-
churia, China, Japan, Korea, the
Philippines and Honolulu will in time
draw all of their canned and packed
meats from Portland. The rapidly
Increasing population of the Pacific
northwest. and all Of Alaska, will look
to Portland as a base of supplies. {
Big Field for Operation.
The great meat packers Will pre- Z
pare TO meet this enormous demand
and when that time is reached Port
lands great industry will radiate
like arteries from the heart, which
will be thhe Portland Union Stocy- ,
yards 1t will greatly behoove the
farmer and ranchers of oregon,
northern California, Washington, Ida
no and western Montana to prepare
to supply the demand Of
properly fattened and properly fin
Isbed cattle. sheep and hogs.