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S. Goldston 1500 



J. Anderson 1500 



Anderson & Little 1500 



J. Patterson 8000 



Judge Cary 3000 



C. P. Eeynolds 5500 



0. Goedwight 5000 



M. Cavin 1200 



There are many smaller drivers, whose names are 

 not given, but the above are the principal movers of 

 stock. Most of the cattle are driven from Texas, 

 but every year the drives will become smaller, as the 

 herds there are gradually diminishing, and the people 

 of Texas are turning their attention more and more 

 from stock to agriculture. The whole number of cattle 

 brought North in a year is about 100,000 head. Of 

 these perhaps 20,000 go to Montana, 8000 to Utah, 

 8000 to Nevada, 9000 to Wyoming, 10,000 to Califor- 

 nia, 11,000 to Idaho, and 30,000 to Kansas and Colo- 

 rado. The amount of capital required to transfer this 

 number of cattle is about $1,500,000. 



At Abilene, Kansas, a few years ago, 200,000 head 

 of cattle were handled in a single season. In one 

 month — September — 60,000 head were transferred, and 

 in another month — October— 75,000 head were shipped. 

 The cattle-trade required 100 cars per day, and a single 

 bank in Kansas City handled during the season 

 $3,000,000 of cattle-money. Both the Abilene, Kan- 

 sas, and Schuyler, Nebraska, cattle-trade has greatly 

 fallen off, as Chicago and St. Louis buyers now go 

 direct to the herds and purchase, instead of as formerly 

 sending agents to the cattle-centres. A few years ago 



