El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-12
CATTLENENA ASK
FOR OPEN YARDS
Kansas City Banker Dis
cusses the Cattle Situa-
ton in That City.

! A. Newman, of Kansas. City, is in
! El Paso. Mr.. Newman, by the way
! Is vice. president of the Drovers Ma
/ uonaI bank of Kansas City, popularly
J supposed to be collateral concern OF
] Morris q Co., and one of the chain OF
I banks which that great packing com
( pany has found it necessary TO estaD-
/ llsh Wherever they have packing plahls
! or stockyards, anu in many places
/ where they have neither, but where
J they may be in position to finance
! cattle producers and thereby eXteno
! their control over the cattle marker
( OF the great central west and soutn'
/ west
Why He Is Here.
| Whlle Mr.. Newman has not sIaleu
! his business in Ell PasO, from the IacI
/ that he has entered into the contro-
/ NerSy between Morris q Co.. VINO are
1 seeking a franchise for stockyaruS
! within the city limits, and those VINO
| are opposed to the establishment OF
] any stockyards or kindred industries I,j
( where they may prove. TO De NJ
! sance, 1t is assumed that as one OF tnS
financial representatives OF MoI MOTIFS q q
| GO. he Is here to see that the WISHES
/ OF his superiors are carried out' ~
/ lar as it lies in his power TO coIlIOI
/ the actions of those VINO nave - IL. III
! their province to grant the FRANCHISE.
Union StOckyaFdsp GOOD. p..o
In his interview in the FL Faso
| Morning Times, Mr.. Newman lays
! great stress upon the advantage TO pc
| gained by Ell PasO by having estao-
| liShed within its limits Union STOCK
/ yards" He makes q play upon the
word Union
A Union Stockyards" is precisely
what those who are opposing the
! granting of the franchise Tor sIoek-
/ yards within the city limits are aiming
/ to secure, when they ask that q re
| served district. outside the city limits,
! be designated as the Location TOT an
] the stockyards packing houses, eIcs
/ which 10 "a b1fghp0 the Ell
! Paso district for the purpose OF
| handling the livestock industry OF the
| district, from this time hencerorth.
/ In the interview alluded TO above
/ Mr. Newman saws: "In my judgment
/ Union Stockyards is a great advantage
/ to any city, as it helps to establish a
| cattle market and cattle center
MIR. Newman Is Right.
Mr.. Newman is eminently right. A
4 Union StOckyards, that IS TO say, d
1 stcckyards that will be Union stock
| yards in every sense Of the word VIII
/ do just exactly what Mr.. Newman says
] it viii do. and that is why efforts are
I being made to establish truly Union
| stockyards on a reserved district out
! side the city limits.
/ terview: BY the issuance of daily quo
! tations the producer knows Just what
! the market is and he can ship his cat
| tie with every guarantee and assur-
! ance that he will receive the market
| price"
! 4 Word Regarding Quotations.
J In this statement Mr.. Newman is
| riGht, provided the quotations emanate
/ from competitive market are handed
/ by newspapers who employ stockyards
| reporters with a thorough knowledge
: Of the ms and outs of the stockyards
I ard livestock games and who cannot
| b. induced under any circumstances,
I to publish any quotations not based
| upon actual conditions.
| Where a srOckyards and packlhs
| house center is under control of
single individual firm or corporation
| OF by a close combination OF lndlVlo-
uals, firms or corporationsi WhSLe
there is no competition between the
| buyers. the market is Just exactly WhaI
those in control see fit to make It. ana
| their published quotations arbltrarlly
rade, give the cattle supper JUS a ~ ~ ~
as much idea of what the market is or
! should be as though no quotations hau
! been published.
It is true that, by spending plenty
| NJ money and having friends at the
cattle centers of the middle west ana
east he can have quotations Sent MN MN
| daily by telegraph from those C dLlIe
centers and arrive at his own deduc-
tons as to what the market in Fl Paso
properly should be. Even win that
| knowledge he could not be sure tnaL
he would receive proper Ply II D. -
| his product upon arrival at Fl EasO
! with the stockyards in cohtroI Oh
MI Newman further says: THE IN
ion stockyards of Kansas rCIIy nav
/ been :. great success in building up one
Z of the greatest cattle markets IN the
| world and 1 see no reason why III Paso
should not take advantage OF ils Ilalu[
/ situation and become for all time me
! great cattle distributing point lot the
what Is Present situation.
Mr.. Newman is right when ne says
that the Union stockyarGs OF ,Ai15;.s15
| City were very SUCCESSFUL IN DulIdihs
nm Kansas City as a great cattle center.
! Ne FORGOT to add. however, that for
! manv years after the establishment OF
/ tbe wards the Kansas City market was
| an open market in which hundreds OF
! buvers competed for the livestock
| bToueb into those yards. Has a similar
| situation existed since the Kansas City
! Yards came under the domination OF
! Norris & Coz
/ Kansas City was a frame structure "a
| by "a feet, having six offices allotted
/ to as many commission firms. Up to a
! wear and a half ago, when the Union
! stockvards of Kapsas City passed under
| the control Of MOTIFS q Co. or so Ions
! as the omen market was maintained, the
/ business grew to such proportions that
1 a nine story building, 25O by 126 feet
| with AS offices was required TO house
! PSF livestock commission men, repre-
/ seuting ~ different firms, each one Of
| whom competed with the other for the
purchase of cattle and other livestock,
! shipped in by independent producers,
! who knew that because of the intense
| competition they would get the best
possible price based upon supply and
! demand for their produce.
] Seats Worth $500.
Seats in the livestock exchange Of
Kansas City were worth $500 and up
In a statement published in the Kansas
! CITY Times of January 23, 1914, by A.
! p. Byars of the firm of Byars & Adams.
lust a few months after control of the
/ Union stockyards at Kansas City passed
/ into the hands of Morris & Co., he said
! that he had offered his firms seat for
/ sale and in evidence thereof exhibited
I a classified advertisement taken from
| the advertising pages of the Kansas
/ City Star, reading as follows:
Membership for sale-On account of