September 23, 1907
RAILROADS USING THEIR CARS TO MOVE BEETS AND COAL __ Not
a Sheep Lost Out of Five Thousand Dipped – Cows and Sheep of the Hunt
Purchase shipped Out of El Paso Yesterday – We’re Fed Here __ There
was plenty doing at the Union stock yards yesterday. Five thousand head
of sheep and 400 head of cattle were loaded there for Fort Collins,
Colo. Sheep and cattle belonged to the big purchase recently made in
Mexico by Col. Charles Hunt. Not a single sheep was lost by the
dipping, though a year ago Mr. Torrazas lost 200 out of 6,000 from
dipping. The sheep were dipped and fed here. The cows were also
unloaded and fed here. The last train load of sheep was sent out
yesterday morning and last evening the 400 cows, ten carloads, left for
Colorado. “There is no telling,” said Col. Hunt yesterday, “when
I will be able to get the last of my purchase of 55,000 head of cattle
and sheep out of Mexico. The railroads are treating live stock men very
shabbily just now. They come out openly and say they do not want our
business. But the live stock shipper will have their inning when the
present rush is over and the roads are again soliciting business. “At
present the railroads do not want to handle perishable goods at all for
the reason that they have enough of the other kind to tax their hauling
capacity. In Northern Colorado and Utah the roads have removed the tops
from their stock car and are using them for hauling beets, while in
Southern Colorado the stock cars are being used for handling coal and
coke. “But some day this rush will be over and then the railroads
will be appealing to the live stock men for bussiness, and then we will
have the talk to make, and it will be made good and strong.”
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