Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-08-06
EASTERN BUYERS
Want OUR BEEF
A Chicago Man is Now Busy
Rounding Up Trainload of
Cattle In Salmon River Sec
tion---Ship From Here.

Are the packing concerns of
Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle and
Portland losing their grip with
the cattle breeders of the Camas
prairie and Salmon river sections
of this state? Are the great
meat packing concerns of Chica-
go and Omaha preparing to in
wade this section of the north
west for the choicest of grass fed
cattle for their own territory?
1t begins to look as if this were
true in both instances. %
At present there is touring the
Camas prairie country, and the
great stretch of range extending
along the Salmon river, a direct
representative of the Union Stock
Yards of Chicago, whose name IS
Williams. He passed through
Lewiston last Wednesday and
his presence in this city was un-
known to anyone, with the pos
sible exception of one or two
prominent cattlemen who chap
pened" to be in Lewiston at the
time. His mission to this part of
the northwest was held a strict
secret, and it was not until he
left this city on the 2::15 train
for the prairie that the news
leaked out as to what brought
him to this section.
From a talk had with Seth
Jones, of the firm of Jones &
Platt, numbered among the most
extensive raisers of cattle in
this state, it was learned that
Mr.. Williams visit to the prairie
was in connection with a train
load shipment Of cattle, the as
sembling of the animals to take
place at either Grangeville or
Cottonwood the first week in
August, and shipment is looked
for to take place not later than
August 18th. Aside from the
, Jones & Platt cattle to be includ-
, ed in the shipment, it is stated
, that great number of the cattle.
men engaged in business on a
smaller scale will contribute. Al
, any rate, a trainload of grass-fec
! beef cattle will start for the
t eastern stockyards about the
' middle of the coming month.
r This is the first invasion of the
!, north-central Idaho by the east
, ern concerns, it is stated, and il
o but the commencement of a buy
t ing war.
The reason for this invasion a
n this time, the Tribune was in
t formed yesterday, is that one O.
d the most prominent packers o
+ Spokane is freely guilty of tn
: utterance, that there are en-
. tirely too many cattle on tn
, coast and that the market
A. nearly always overloaded an
# that with this condition existing
r. the price of beef cattle is les
W now than at any time for severe
" wears, and there is little prospee
n of any material advance. Wit
o. this condition, if true, being eA
70 plotted through the public pres
G G;c the easterners were quick to TAX
10 advantage of the situation, as g
no time, so far as can be learr
ed, has the market of the centr'
20 and central-west states bee
glutted.
-, Mr.. Jones yesterday state
of that he had been offered q cen
~ for his cattle, which he refuse
It and it is understood another
les the prominent raisers sold a lar'
ice number of beeves at that prlc
ed Be this as it may, the grass-t
III vi cattle will not leave this sectl'
nd nd of the country at 6 cents pouI
ISL on the hoof. Good western ca
he tie are at this time bringing
ith Omaha $3.50 to $3.50 per hun
e+a g red, and at Chicago 5000
itv' ~ IS. Is. This is in great contra