Show STEERS t k growth odthe of the ca ss on plaint plain omaha rise I 1 the wonderful development within the last few years of the ranching business on oil the western plains has attracted the attention cattle men and capitalists in all parts of the civilized world the well authenticated reports of the marvelous rapid aca accumulation mutation mu lation of fortunes in the cattle business havo have drawn to the trans missouri country hundreds of men of large expert ence once in cattle Za kaising raising ising but possessed of limited mean means and huid hundreds reds of othera others with abundant abunda ni capital but lacking the practical experience the unity of capital aud experience 13 not indispensable for fortunes lor tunes have been made thero by men who bad had none of the former and very little of the latter but it is requisite to tile successful development ofilio business i that the two go hand liand in iu hand this was not so essential a few years ago when cattle in lit unlimited limit e 1 I numbers could be had bad at from 67 to 88 per lead and when the unclaimed grazing grazin grounds were boundless to ro I 1 1 1 engage engage Z 0 ill in ranching at the present day one must double the capital required fj five ve years ago and to epli conduct duct the business bushie ss successfully involves an increase in the expense account of from 40 to 50 per cent 1 it is this irrie large increase in ill original outlay art and the incidental e expenses x that is eo 0 rapidly 11 riving individual owners out of the bu business and concentrating it in the hands of large corporations handling I 0 as a distinct industry dates back back scarcely more than a decade in the intervening time millions of home and foreign capital have been ill invested vested in the tile business which has how attained giga gigantic proportions the undoubted opportunities for profitable investment hL eAttle raising on the plains began to attract attention asfar as back as 1875 but the busi business nees was of slow growth iiii until along in 1880 when there began ft it veritable boom it has in creased cr eased in interest up tip to the present time when the demand for cattle for stocking new ranches far exceeds cec d 1 the available supply during the last five years the ill in prices lias has been rapid in an I 1 continuous on cattle have fouled 4 5 I 1 led C I 1 and q u a ledin val 0 7 at to S SA por par head heal wara the t h best bes b es that i could be obtained for cattle on the ranges today they are salable at from 20 to 30 with sanguine holders naming even higher prices this unprecedented advance it must bo be understood is not wholly due to the urgent demand of cattle for stocking new now ranches the canning industry which in may be remarked lias lins also grown up within tho the last ten yen years rs h has furnished a sure outlet for unlimited numbers of this grade of stock for which formerly there was no demand then tho vastly improved facilities for getting the cattle to market the gradual grading up tip with blooded stock and the corn coni para tive vc scarcity during the lat last two or three seasons of native cat tie tle have all c contributed to that enhancement han lian cement of values of the last five years which has giado the francl business the most certainly profitable of any in which a man mail could engage 6 that it will continue to pay a handsome return on the investment there are the most substantial reasons for believing but the time alien a man by bf the outlay of a few hundich dollars could retire at the end of five or ten years the possessor of hundreds of thousands has unquestionably P passed the importance to chicago of the range cattle trade can call scarcely be measured the trade had bad its birth in tho the summer of 1873 in robert Str altorn ship shipped pelo from pilot point tex fourteen loads of the long horn four loads of which went to st louis where was the best fi figure gure that could be realized fur pur them st louis offered no better inducement du cement to shippers than now the remaining ten tell loads camo came on oil to chicago an and d sold at 4 during that season mr received and sold hero here loads or about 1830 head 1 from rem that small beginning tho the trade has increased until the pres cut time when incredible us its it may appear our receipts of range cattle comprise more mor than ethan one third olour of our annual beef supply years receipts were much the largest over known amounting to tex ag a through catine cattle and northern range cattle or ft a tota total 1 of two circumstances contribute to the tho largo large increase of last year in the first place the exceptional mild wild winter and the subsequent favot favorable able spring and summer put a much larger portion than usual odthe of the range cattle in condition for market then the extremely good prices ces prevalent drew out many cattle tle that under less encourage encouraging ng cir circumstances cum stances would havo have remained on tho tile ranges As to this seasons supply it is pretty generally conceded that it will fall short of 1882 owing ta to the very close culling of the brov droves esp last year and the extensive demands new ranches with alith regard to tot tho e effect upon the melq yest tern herds of the rigorous weather of last winter enough is now known to enable one to speak intelligently A few wicket ago all sorts of exaggerated reports of the mortality among cattle on the plains were floating loa ting abou tome estimates es placing the loss as high ag as 25 per cent but from extensive contact iv with ith texas ranchmen ranchman ranch men and from direct information gained through trusts worthy sources concerning the losses in tho the other states and rieb ries the writer feels no hesitancy in asserting that the losses up to date late will not reach 0 5 per cent owing to the long and severe winter ana and the backwardness of the spring the cattle are not in as good flesh as usual and from present appearances the season of 1883 93 will open at least three weeks later than last year |