Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-24
OMAHA GETS RANCE CATTLE
Trade Trip Of Live Stock Exchange
Finds Market Patrons.
CHICAGO Is LOSING IT'S GRIP
Boosters Find Northwest BancAers
Favoring Buyers Here---JoIIy En-
tertainments Found on
Long journey.

Long Journey.
That Omaha is growing IN popularity as
q market town I'm the great northwest and
that South Omaha viii get more and more
cattle is the opinion Of the members Of
the South Omaha Live Stock exchange
who returned Saturday morning from their
extensive trip.
They found the cattle men Of Rapid City,
Belle Fourohe, Sheridan. Ciearmont, Bill
ings and Miles City warm toward the
South Omaha market II is declared that
the time is at hand when Chicago will lose
its grip on the range cattle business
The party enjoyed the best Of entertain
ment at all points and was especially
pleased with the roundup celebration at
Clearmont. when they were the guests OF
Willis Spear OF Spear Brothers great
ranch.
The thing whicn caused the greatest in
tsrest was the tremendous activity in Mon
tana and Dakota. apparent in developing
tho new lands into q purely agricultural
region.
w. B. Cheek OF the Burlington system,
who was one OF the party, said: "At Glen
dive, Mont, was taken off my feet by
the proportions Of the agricultural devel-
opment as shown by the implement deal
srs and the merchants in general supplies.
Tho depot at Glendive was buried under
heaps Of farm machipery. The agent took
me up to the west end of the town and
showed me field Of sixty acres extent
covered completely with farm machinery
OF all descriptions The railroad companies
have built sheds for the incoming emil
grants to store goods and there is row
Of these about mile long. saw boxes Of
provisions piled in the streets, making a
heap a quarter Of a mile in length. There
is certainly something doing in that sec
ton In the Dakota towns It was prac-
ticoly repetition Of the same thing. At
Sheridan the city is leaping ahead as never
before. The streets are being paved and
a street car service installed. Electric
lights illuminate all tho cities we visited"
bright Outlook for Future
Secretary A. F. stryker toid OF the de-
tails of the trip, dwelling more particu-
larly on the results and the outlook for
the immediate future.
1--WE are delighted with the trip, which
we think by far the most successful ever
made. We found stock in the range coun-
try coming through the winter in fairly
good condition. Barring a few isolated
districts where loss was reported heavy
the loss in cattle was comparatively light
Cattlemen and sheepmen of the northwest
have no complaints to make. l
"The South Omaha delegation was every
where enthusiastically received and enter
tanned. Tho business mems association al
Rapid City entertained us there, the
knights Of Pythias received us at Belle
Fourche the Efks were our hosts at sheri'
dan. The Billings club and the Miles City
club took us in at those cities and treated
Us royalty. The Miles City club is famous
as the. frequent entertainer Of Theodore
Roosevelt, and the club has an autograph
portrait of the great hunter upon the walls
The whole company was initiated into thu
mysteries of 'son-of-a-gun in a sack
and other Accomplishments Of the roundup
cook at Spears ranch. We saw lots o.
good riding and sports typical of th'
ranges. The women were present to NEE
us having ridden in from the surrounding
ranches In numbers, They escorted VI
back to town in our big hayrack party a
Ii D. m that night ana fairly outdld th'
men in generous welcome and good wishes
Chicago Sees the Handwriting.
zone striking circumstance was every
where met, and that was the howl whicl
the Chicago representatives made. for tn
dwindllng patronage OF the west. It wa
plain TO us that they could see the hand
writing on the wall and the rapid approach
OF the day when Chicago will cease to b.
a primary market for the western trade
Year by year the decrease from the range
will be more pronounced. Already the Chit
eago wall Is pitiful.
ION every hand the South Omaha rep
resentatives we're met with the assurances
we have become convinced that Omaha 1
our market
"The threatened depletion of the grade
and OF range cattle does not cause tn
worry which was professed a few year
ago. for the small rancher and the DIR,
farmer 50 far outnumber the rangers tina
their limited production win far outstrip tn
greatest output OF the big ranges in tn
near future. The party spent the entir
day Thursday at st. Paul as tho guests o
the Live Stock exchange Of South St. Pau
We are home again delighted. dirty an
deviHshly well satisfied"
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