Show HIGH PRICES FOB BEEF Opinion of the Growers That Cattle Will Fay Will cattle increase in price Frank Hunter who is one o the representative repre-sentative cattle men and experienced dealers deal-ers of Denver repeated the question and then said Of course at this season of tho yeai the shipping season cattle always go up But I have confidence that the advance I going to ba much greater than it naabeen for five years There are many reasons for this and I cannot t l them all now But it is a fact that there is far more Inquiry In-quiry tor range cattle for feeders than there has been since 1885 This of course makes us feel good One of the reasons and the chief one is that the supply is not keeping up with the demand by the big market centers This in turn is due to the fact that a good many people who went into tbo cattle business busi-ness and especially the feeding or fattening fatten-ing business knew as much about cattle as the cattle knew about them and these men are now commencing toappreciate this faut They have not made it pay because it is the work of a lifetime almost to learn how to feed cattle They have been pulling out during the past year Besides this a good many range cattle growers who formerly looked after thoir stock and kept them up in pretty good shape have been neglecting them cutting oil the number of employees and turning their attention to other matters They have become discouraged dis-couraged over the low prices Now many of the old time cattlemen who sold out in 1885 and 1886 because they foresaw what was coming are buying npttheso cattle for stock and preparing to again handle big bunches Ail these thing combine to make m8 9 G i i i fh + l = < I I j confident that the prices of cattle will go up because poor steers and cows will a oj be sent to market and the figures OB Sifif cattle will necessarily rise Two other cattle growers who were sees practically indorsed Mr Hunters views while they did not explain themselves exactly V ex-actly in the same way One believed that the price of cattle would be controlled from Chicago through New Yorkand London and i it suited the purposes of Armour Co and other heavy packers to Increase the prices so that they could get more money from cattle in which they had aa interest the cattlemen generally would get the benefit There is a general conviction among the owners of range cattle however that their steers will be worth at least 20 per cent more during the next thirty days News |