Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1905 — BIG CATTLE SHIPMENTS. [ARTICLE]

BIG CATTLE SHIPMENTS.

Lone Trains of Palace Stock Care Rushing from South to North. Not even the world’s fair nor convention excursion trains take precedence over the long strings of palace stock cars rushing from south to north this month, that the largest shipment of Texas cattle in the history of the West may be deposited on the range country west of the Missouri river. JVithin 30 days 100 such trains will have passed through Sioux City, and from 90,000 to 100,000 southern cattle will be partaking of the most luxuriant range grasses which many years have produced. Next year at this time these same cattle will bo sent to the markets of the world. This stupendous movement of cattle means so much to the railroads both now and later that they are sidetracking their fast express trains that the cattle may speedily reach their destination. It has taken the cattlemen of the North long years to solve the riddle of the “Texas steer," but the decision that the ealves should have a year or two of wild, rugged life in the South before they were transplanted to the northern ranges was the solution. The southern rangeman is prospering by this new development of the cattle Industry. He was formerly content to accept $7 to $lO for his yearlings and 2-year-olds, but now he insists on an advance of about $lO per head all ’round. Tae northern rancher is enabled to stand thia increase only because of the cheapness of the forage.