Show u. N WITH INITH BI CHICAGO PACKERS WHEN CANAl OPENS PROMISED Whitaker Believes Los Angeles Stockyards Will D Draw Drav Draw Trade of West When hen the Panama canal is lis Is op ned we Wl will be e able to la lay down dressed beef In New York City 8 cents ch cheaper ch-aper aper than tho Chicago packers packer can cali ship from South Chicago to Now New York declared declared de de- clarell D. D A. A Whitaker vice president of or the Union Stockyards company of ot Los Angeles at the Cullen hot hotel l last ni night h t. t Mr 11 Whitaker believes that Los Angeles will become the greatest livestock livestock livestock live live- stock market of the west with Salt Lake as one of or the main feeding points He is making a El trip through Utah Idaho and Nevada to Interest cattlemen cattlemen cattle cattle- men and hog ranchers In tho the Los An Angeles eles market Tho Los Angeles union unton stockyards stockyard will be In readiness to receive cattle sheep and hogs b by next October or November November No No- vember he ho declared and I r b believe belies Hee o It t twill will be a great advantage to Ito the live He stock Interests of ot the intermountain tain region and the coast At present tho Uto stock stock raisers raisers who ship to I Los os Angeles s sell on oft contracts to a a. group of men who virtually control the marl mar mar- l ket et With the hc stockyards tho the tock stock raiser alser will get ct the hest best prevailing pro market market market mar mar- ket price for tor his animals animal Just dust as do shippers to the tho Omaha Omaha Ka Kansas City and Portland yards ard There will b be t of oC all the western ste states sites tes In the tho yards all the time to look after artel the Inter Interest lit of shippers tell them than when to shi ship and all alt that that With the opening of or the stockyards two great new p packing houses will b be erected In Los Angeles J j. j jr M I. I Porter a banker of ot Globe Ariz will erect a plant costing several hundred annd dollars and a Chicago o packing company will build a bi big plant there Ihre Our stock stockyards ards comprise acres within six miles of ot the center of or Los Angeles In addition we have hove leased d several veral hundred acres where stock may mayb mayb b IJ b kept until sold Those of ofIS us IS Interested in making Los Angeles a big open live stock market mar r market ket leet have worked several years to bring about the stockyards and we watt want the operation co-operation of the cattle she sheen p and raisers hog-raisers of all the western states stater The Tho small stock raiser Is just as Important Important important Im Im- as the big one to our way of or thinking and will receive Just as much cons consideration Idem As the Los Angeles market grows salt Fait Lake will become a great feeding center Cattle shipped from Idaho Montana and Wyoming V will all be halted hero here for feeding That feature fe alone should make malte Salt Lake boost the growth of oC Los Angeles as a stock center r |