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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1916)
Sioux City Live Stock Market Fall Feeder Show Sioux City Stocker and Feeder Show, tU 16 to 18, Wlll.be Great Kvent for Ilanchmen Stocker and feeder cattle shows, accessible to the ranchmen of west ern Nebraska, are sure to attract their attention and Interest. Some cattle from the ranches go direct to the packing houtses In good condition for beef, but it la to the feeder buy ers and the demand that they make for Nebraska ranch cattle that stock men look for best prices. Sioux City Is favorably located to make a success of the Stocker and -Feeder Show enterprise, which la be ing launched at an opportune time. For the past several years it has been ductlon. It is no new announcement that the bulk of these cattle and sheep must como from the range sen lions of the west from western South Dakota, from Montana and from Wy oming. True, there is a slight ten dency among farmers of the cornbelt to raise two calves th's year where they raised but one last year. Hut, the time when the farmer will, as a rule, breed and raise the cattle for his cornbelt feed lot is as yet a long way off. If, Indeed, It Is ever to come. As long as the range Is a pro ducer of rattle and sheep, above feed ing capacity in the comparatively small areas of the mountain states where grain feeds are produced Just bo long the cornbelt farmer will be calling on the range man to furnish Mock for his feed lots. came the feasibility of an annual i Stocker nixl Feeder show. At the beginning of this year the project took on a definite form. An organi sation for the purpose of holding the frst show was effected and dates set for holding the show next fall. The Stock Yards company and the Live Stock exchange Joined In the project. A fund of $3,000 was provided to he disbursed In premium for Mock and feeder cattle and feeder sheep and lamb. The premiums are large enough to prove an attraction to owners of cattle or sheep of feeder grade and the unction 'eature of the ; show will guarantee attractive prices to all cattU md oheep that will he in 'the show. It In a good time right i now to begin shaping for sending I some good range raised stock for Making Good Growth "Homo Market of the tlrent Norli. Making Itnpld lngreH in l'ermniient Development The amount of business transact ed in a year's time at a great live stock market Is remarkable, only four other live stock matkets In this country are doing a larger business now than Sioux City, she having passed other markets in Velun:e ol business now stands fifth. Until making some Investigation or research for Intorir.aticn. one -.v 111 have an entirely too limited Idea of the value of the live -took parsing thru the Sioux City maiket. One firm whose advertisement appears In this paper trans.ictel husinens laM , . .- --.7 77. -..-v ... - '-''?'"v?i'.:v. .. vp;: ; 7 -7;CY f yT '-" I Mill ., I S- ' .J. J: . if . I .L..r''stif.ii-t....-; ' " -5- if t .4. "r Slor.X ITV I.IVK STtHK KACHA '(JK OXK OF TIIK FIN F.ST III ll.)l.(iS OF ITS KIM On the left-hand side In shown the emt end of the new allitlou, made ne'eiMtry by the increasing Imsine-. or tbi market, this part of the building Is occupied by the Live Stock National llank of Sioux t'ity. The gmiind ItiNtrof considered by stock yards interests ( that an exclusive stocker and feeder , cattle and feeder sheep show should be held at this point. This market Is j located in the center of a vast corn belt feed lot. For two hundred miles ' north end northwest of Sioux City it1 is one vast grain field. It Is a hun- dred miles Bouth and east from Sioux City before the teritory of another market Is reached, and this is all one i great grain section. Put one car load j of cattle In a feed lot In the center1 of each half-section of land In this territory and the total of carrying and feeding capacity in this, Sioux City teritory, and tho total would run Into astounding figures and every half-section of this territory Is equal to more than one car of cattle. Every year sees this section mak ing advancement toward fuller devel opment of its producing capacity. Every year calls for more cattle and sheep for pastures, stalk fields and feed lots la order to ake ths most nf tbe cepifelMJti of th land (At (r When the range man has a herd of well bred, thrifty cattle for sale competition fo'r the prizes and the year amount ing to nearly six niilllrrs auction ring in the first annual , of dollars, dealing with more than four thounand customers. And It takes a lo. of capital to hs ti tle Ktuh a volume of ousineBs as passes thru the Sioux City market. cattle that are young and In Just Stocker and Feeder show at the good feeder flesh he wants to go Sioux City stock yards next October. where the best possible buyers are Write to any of the commission to be found. What better suggestion ' firms of Sioux City whose advertls.- thsn the market situated in the midst nients appear in this paper for lnfor-j t ls estimated that it takes right or a great corn neio.7 inis is jusi ation regaroing me siocaer ana around $10 000,000 for the five what Sioux City offers. Ana it was with the object of getting tho range breeder and raiser of cuttle and sheep and the cornbelt farmer Into closer touch with each other that the Stocker and Feeder show was pro jected. The idea la not a new one, nor one of spasmodic growth at the Sioux been In a developing stage for the past two or three years. But not until last fall did it begin to take on definite form. It became evident more than two years ago that en larged cattle pen capacity at' the Sioux City stock yards must be pro Tided to accommodate the growing Feeder show. They will be plad to i Etock commiaslon firms, stock yards furnish you with details of the sh,w. roMmany and nacklrg horBea to han dle the business of the maiket, nd this does not include the amount in vented in the stack yards aul equip ment, Kxchange HiuMlng, packing houses, etc. One item that will be of particular lnt creat to readers of .The Nebraska Stockman is the Increase In the range cattle business, uiJ it is predicted by persons in a position to know the sit uation that the increase in this class of business will continue. The following extract from the Sioux City Live Stock Record's re- W AIT ONLY A LITTLK UTI1LK If you want to see the races and other spoil -i, you'll have to wait only a liitle wirie. July 4th will soon be here. The thing to do now ic to at tend the annual convention of the Nebraska Stork Growers' Association City stock yards. The project has, -which 'his yar will be :i real I stockmen's convention -and get the benefit of the splendid propxam that has been prepared. You will be well entertained while in Alliance, be sides finding this convention to be tho most profitable of any you have ever attended. Dwlght Zediker, Alliance's cham nlnn rhv rider, will he nt the finux trU t this rmlnv. Almn with Hi 1 1 ity Houodup, July 3 to (Continued on page 3) country's total production. - . , -IThls -was a meeting or rest opine tot - If we take the total Income of the the work of the women. A- A- Layton. pastor of the Baptist The ball game last Friday on tne i . BIMtKIICtm.