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Show THE LIVESTOCK TRADE. The live stock raisers of Cache and adjoining counties are not obtaining the prices for their stock that they should receive, nor that the market can really afford. The reason for this is that there are men among us who are furnished means by outside parties, who offer them at a stated price for calves, yearlings, steers, &c (etc.). These middlemen buy up stock at as low a price as possible, and then turn it over at stipulated prices to the parties for whom they are operating. It of course follows that the lower the price for which the stock can be bought by the middleman, the greater are his profits. But the farmer and stock raiser suffer injustice under this state of affairs, and Zion's Board of trade, at their meeting on Monday last, adopted some preliminary measures looking to a remedy for the evil. A committee was appointed to prepare a plan for the handling of the live stock in such a manner as will make it bring the highest possible price to the producer, and it is expected that this committee will be prepared to report at an early meeting of the Board. It is to be hoped that some arrangement will be perfected and put in practice by which the present system of dealing in livestock will be superseded by a better one. In what we have said we mean nothing in any way disrespectful to the gentlemen in the county who are engaged in buying stock but desire simply to advocate the best interests of the people at large. |
