The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-12
A DRAWING CARD
FOR BIG BUSINESS
Mighty Plant Of Southern Stock
Y ards OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Mule and Horse Breeders
Have Splendid Opportunity.
Plenty Of Grass and
Grain.
By FRANK S. woODsoN,
Industrial Editor.

speaking recently in this section OF
The Times Dispatch OF the immense
wholesallng and iobbing business done /,
IN this city said that within cer-
tain territory anything from a tooth- IS
pick up to a steam engine could be
bought from WholeSa lerS, and many oc Il
the things within that compass were
enumerated If the territory had been
enlarged somewhat might have added
horses and ponies and mules as COM
modities that go to swell the whole. 81
sale business Of Richmond to enor.
nous proportions
MI Richmond people are not inter-
ested III horses and mules. and there
fore all Richmond people do not know y
that this city has become the largest B
horse market in the Southern or East
ern part of the country. and 1t is to
be doubted II more than one or two
single markets anywhere sell and ship
to the Southern States more work ani4
mails than does Richmond. The largest 4
horse and mule-selling plant in the
South is In Richmond, and the largest 3
single sales stable In the United
States is located in this city. OF course, II
[ refer to the plant and the INN ensa
barns of the Southern Stock Yards
Corporation, Incorporated which is
conducted away ont on West Broad
Street by Snyth Brothers McCleary-
Mcclellan Company, the world re-
nowned animal commission sa lesmen.
BiEgcst Dnrn In the Country. M
The immense stable. the main build-
ing In which this company houses and /.
sells horses and mules by the thou
sands stands upon hfteen-acre lot,
and the building covers five acres. the
roof covering over 100000 :, unre feet
Of floor space. It is model and mod
crn house In all respects The stalls. Il
RI t,-a,
mule pens, the restaurant, the tele-
graph and telephone Offices. tile wait
ing rooms and the railway side tracks
eli being under one roof. The building
Is Kept as neat 8 pin. and is Ell ;
tlrely sanitary It is electrically lighted \
and perfectly severed, being supplied
with all necessary plumbing for such D
purpose and for furnishing an abund-
ant water supply. The railway side
tracks run the entire length of the
immense house, and all animals shipped
or received are loaded and unloaded
within the building
Taken altogether, the entire plant is
unsurpassed anywhere in this country
and there are very few. If any,4to equal
IT in It's facilities for the transaction
the business 1t was designed for.
Grent Drawing Card.
is ohable that there is no esta y
lishment In Richmond that brings In
y
and strangers to the city TO do bust ~
ness as this immense horse and mule
shop, and 1t is certain that there ia
not an enterprise in the city tina %
brings rs much good North and SoutI,
Carolina and Georgia money to Rich
inond as does the Southern stock
Yards Corporation, for there are but
comparatively few animals at work on
the farms OF Virginia and certain
parts or the Carolinas and the larger
part or Georgia that do not GO
through the barns of this concern. The
horse dealers from these and other
states because of superior railway IA \
ciltties can come to Richmond in q
night and they dc come in lroves ia
buy work horses and mules and car.
rage and buggy and riding horses to
supply their customers. During the
busy season the auction and other sales !,
are from 1000 10 1900 animals every
week. Only last week the shipmentas
to points South OF here We're over fifty
carloads, not counting the many ant
mails that were shipped down the
James River by boat and those that
We're driven through the country to
nearby Virginia points. Not loss than
u hundred buyers from out OF town
and out Of Virginia points head for
these stables every week, and 1t goes
without saving that these morse deaf
= " II
Richmond while they tarry here.
4 Cnse In Point.
II is an interesting fact. that very
many of the horse and mule dealers
OF the Caroinns and Georgia who
come here to buy their stock are also
town village and country merchants,
and not q few Of them by visiting
Richmond to buy horses have tarried
to buy merchandise for their stores
also. ~5y
Only last Friday Wholesale notion
house found a new customer in a
Southern combination sawmill coun.
Try store and horse man who came
mere only 70 buy horses from the
Southern stock Yards but he got In u
terested in Richmond and the notion
Jobher sold him bill of $1,000
Doubtless this comhnatio business
man also bought shoes. dry goods AMI
groceries II he didn't this time he
may do II on his next trip Thus II
happens that tho big horse and mule
business which the Smyth Brothers.
McCieary- Mcclellan Company has es-
tablished here has proven TO be a
strong card that wins vast amount
of general business for Richmond he. Y
You'd the animal trade
Money Saved Going aud Coming.
The firm does general horse com.
mission business. and 1t Is so we'll
known among the stock breeders OF
the country that immense shipments
come 70 their barns direct from tha Il
stock. brcedi' farms. lnaccompaniedS a
BY the owners or agents. the entire
business OF selling them being left In 4
tho hands OF Snyth Brothers. AIcCieary- Il
Mcclellan. Thus the breeders ysthasg
reputation OF tho firm for fair ana a
STRAIGHTFORWARD dealing, are saved
Continued on Third Pago.1 VI,