The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-08-18
SPLENDID HORSE AND MULE
TRADE WITH MONTANA
Swain Beatty Interviewed at Billings
and Butte on Conditions.

AS stated in the last issue of The
Tribune, Swain Beatty is home again
from Billings and Butte, Montana,
where he had been with shipment of
horses and mules from this point.
| Mr.. Beatty states that splendid
traffic has been built up in both horses
and mules between Caldwell and Chi
cago and points east. These ship
ments have been routed via the
Northern Pacific. While at Billings
last week with shipment of nine cars
of horses, Mr.. Beatty gave the Billings
Evening Journal the following inter-
view:
Billings is favorite feeding point
with all livestock shippers" said Mr..
Beatty, but we may be compelled to
make change if the Butte situation
is not remedied. Heretofore we have
always been allowed the use of the
commodious Great Northern yards for
feeding, but on this trip we were
denied that privilege. AS it happened
that had three cars belonging to diff
ferent persons, and the Northern Pa
c1tic yards were SO small that | could
unload only by dumping them all in
one lot, | had to forego unloading in
Butte.
Had the stock been unloaded in
one bunch, | would have found it i'm
possible to separate them when the
time came for reloading. So l took a
chance, and secured a good run to Bill
lings, where the accommodations are
most satisfactory. Butte to Billings
makes nice run for stockmen, and
we like your city. The only solution
for the situation is to have the North
ern Pacific yards at Butte enlarged so
we can feed our stock there"
Returning home Mr.. Beatty stopped
off few hours at Butte and was in
terviewed by the Butte Daily Post.
The statement given the Post follows:
Butte Needs Stock Yards.
Butte is sadly in need of cattle
yards in connection with the Northern
Pacific Railroad company" said Swain
Beatty Of the Caldwell Gdaho) Horse
and Mule company today.
1T would mean much to Butte if the
railroad company would provide the
facilities of making it feeding sta
ton. Only the other day I had a ship
ment of horses and mules from Cald-
well bound for Chicago. | unloaded
and fed the animals at Lima and
really should have unloaded and fed
again at Butte. but there were no IA
cilities, and | had to run right through
to Billings without feeding. | was for
tunate in securing a quick run to Bill
lings and this helped some. If | had
been able to unload and feed at Butte
on that occasion it woul d have meant
an expenditure of about $78 on the
small shipment. Billings has good ia
cilities, and | want to unload and feed
the cattle at that place, but unless
there is change in Butte conditions
| will have to cut Butte out as
feeding point, since between the two
places the run is just about right be-
tween feeding hours
Caldwell Doing Big Business.
Our company sends out of Cald-
well every month an average of about
AZ cars Of horses and mules, outside
of the orders filled for Uncle Sam and
France and Italy. The unloading and
feeding of all those animals at Butte,
if proper facilities are provided, would
be considerable in a year, and | be-
lieve that if the people of Butte just
called the attention of the railroad
company to the necessity for unload
ing and feeding yards they would be
provided
THE Caldwell Horse and Mule
company is the largest of its kind in
the west and has an agency in San
Francisco. 1t has capital of a
quarter million dollars and you can
realize that it does large business
which it might be we'll for Butte to
look after"
Mr. Beatty soon after he reached the
city today came across an old school
friend of SO years ago in the person
of Attorney Charles r. Leonard. and
the two spent several hours together
discussing the days of their boyhood