Show CVTTLE IX WESTERN ENGLAND UmHt HI on I Shipment a Failure But hive Shipments a Success Recent shipments of Eastern Washington Washing-ton and Oregon cattle to England says the Walla Walla Washington Territory I r lion of the id have awakened considerable consid-erable intel t particularly among trade competitors These cattle it appears were driven eastward and finally shipped on board vessels at Duluth A British trade paper in commenting upon this shipment states that the dead meat has proved a failure to all intents and purposes Not only does the meat lose in quality but the weight shrinks by more than G per cent The livecattle trade however it regards as a far more serious matter The Vyoming Territory alone sends from its borders bor-ders nearly enough ipeat to satisfy the requirements re-quirements of London and now that the I northern system of railways is finished transit is i comparatively an easy tlnnjj I jnreeyearoii flU lOCKS wCgnmg 1UUU pounds each can be bought at railroad points in Montana and Dakota for 31 per head Transportation from Montana to London adds 2280 to this figure and at these rates it will be found that in this trade of supplying London with cattle from the great prairies of the Northwest there is an enormous and profitable field for enterprise The low figure is arrived ar-rived at by direct shipments without the intervention of brokers while cattle which are taken from some other source of supply pass through half a dozen hands before they retch the retailer |