The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-15
LIVE STOCK MEN
FLOCK TO FIRST
SALE Of YARDS
Hopes Of MemphianS That the
Territory Can Be Given
Adequate Live Stock Mar
ket Being Realized.

Ket Beng Realized.
Hopes of the public spirited Memphis
business men who organized the Mem
pms Stockyards Inc, that genuine
.he STOCK market can be established IN
as well as the commission men and
dealers, began to be realized in earnest
Monday morning with the opening sales
wood
Approximately $40, 900 worth OF cattle
and hogs were in the pens for sale when
the buying started about 10 o'clock This
sum OF live stock was made up Of 12
carloads of cattle and three carloads Of
hogs, Most of the cattle were native
but among them were some good ami
mals Included in the lots We're co-op-
eratlve shipments made by six county
agents OF the territory: w. NJ. I.andess
OF Shelby county; II, G, Grantham, Ad
ans county, Miss; w. c. Minis, Union
county, Miss, w. Il. Rich, Yazoo coun-
ty, Miss; Il. S. Rohards, Lauderdale
county Tenn, and an Arkansas agent
n. o, Pate, manager OF the stock
yards, expressed himself as well pleased
with the initial showing Of buyers
Three st, Louis buyers were among tho
pens, one buyer for Wilson &Co., sev+
eral speculative buyers and buyers fran
the territory looking for feeder and
stocker hogs and cattle.
There was a considerable crowd on
the yards all morning, consisting large
ly of live stock producers from the ter
ritory, whose interest In the stockyards
was sufficiently strong to bring them
here for the opening though they did
not intend to buy or sell
Automobiles ran from the Peabody
hotel overy half hour carrying loads Gf
lives stock men out all the morning and
early afternoon. Many stockrnen also
went out on the Hollywood car line and
were met at the end Of the line by an-
tomobiles from the stoekyards,
PrAEidAnt Elallar pTnQnnT ~
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Senator Frank D, Fuller, president Of
the stockyards company, was on the
YARDS and expressed himself as being
Wei pleased with the opening day,
What Is lhoMa as the opening sales
VIII continue throughout IueSday ami
"Wednesday and Mr. Pate expects the
TWO subsequent days TO be as success
iul as the INITIAL one. The 'Eards VIII
carry everything needed by the breed
er, Ieeder or Killer OF hogs and cattle
on TUESDAY and wednesday, and Will
''t;re great 70 horse a1 so. and mule sale will be
conducted on Friday, when grade Per
cheron horses, western ponies and mules
OF every class VIII be sold. There VIII
De carloads OF cotton mules, levee mules,
iog mules, sugar mules ana iarm mues
Ior sa!e, ms safe VIII De repeated
every two weeks;
80 tar as cattle and hogs safes are
concerned, Mr.. rate oeciared that aiter
MONDAY the yaros Would nave safes eN
cry day OF aIl KINGS OF stocker ana
ieeoers ana that aitcr tnlS week tne
morse ana nuie safes Wouiq oe CONDUCT
ed without ther interfering win the
proceedings OF the cattle ana hogs sales.
The construction OF horse ana mule
barn TO mouse ~ carioads OF horses or
mules VIII be started right away; rms
barn VIII be adJacent to the catue anu
hogs pens, ,,y
one OF the features or the memphis
stock yafds VIII be the lmmunlzation
under federal SUPERVISION OF al the cat
tie ana hogS passing through the yafdS.
A temporary lInmunlzatlon plant VIII
pc IN operation luesday ana very snort
ly permanent one VIII be constructed.
All breeder or stocker cattle handled on
the yards VIII pc tuperculin tested anu
all hogs VIII be lmmunlzed TOT choiera'
DIR. A. Z. Sayre, OF the United states
department OF animal huspandry' VIII
be In charge OF the lnmunizatlon plant
Honesty Is Guaranteed.
r,o -, -. 10. aor,, ~
The stock yards now has a daily ca
pacity OF 20 cars OF liye stock a day
In covered pens, but this VIII be en-
larged immediately TO keep ahead OF the
expected heavy shipments that VIII tol-
low this fall. A live stock exchange
building IS one or the improvements 10
be added. In this building VIII pc the
Offices Of the commission firms. These
commission men will be governed by a
strict set OF exchange rules, modelled
after those in the best conducted stock
yards in the country.
All traders and dealers on the yards
VIII be subject to the rules or the ex-
change" Mr.. Pate said. Shippers Of
every class and quantity of live stock
are entitled to and will have fair and