OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 151 
A MONARCH OF THE FEEDLOT 
58. The most extensive maker of beef and mutton America 
has ever produced, was T. B. Horp of Central City, Nebr. His 
grasslands covered some 20,000 acres in the richest section of 
the Cornhusker state, and he annually marketed between 10,000 
and 15,000 cattle, a similar number of sheep and over 10,000 
hogs. Whole trainloads of Central City cattle were picked up 
on his switches, which lined the Union Pacific for many miles. 
Each of his eleven separate feeding stations turned out more 
livestock in a year than were finished by the average of the big 
Nebraska feeders. Mr. Horp was a daring operator, frequently 
being a heavy loser. More than once he faced financial disaster, 
but he never faltered. His maxim for pertinacity was, “A man 
is never whipped until he’s whipped inside.” This combined 
with his second maxim, never to “make the same mistake twice,” 
made him almost invincible. 
T. B. Horp was born at Marion, Ohio, June 15, 1850, and 
after a life of gigantic achievements, suddenly nipped by paraly- 
sis, he was there interred following his demise in Minneapolis, 
December 15, 1910. The day before his death he had left 
Central City to seek a noted Northwest specialist on nervous 
disturbances and paralytic strokes. 
Mr. Horp afforded the greatest single market for grain and 
hay in the central west. Annually such enormous quantities as 
10,000 tons of hay and 1,000,000 bushels of corn were fed in 
his yards. Of this amount only 5,000 tons of hay and 75,000 
bushels of corn were produced by him and the remainder had 
to be purchased. His demands made a lucrative business for 
several grain dealers and elevator operators, but having become 
established, they made the mistake of trying to crowd prices on 
him too concertedly, and he secured the capital, not only to buy 
them out, but to obtain a string of elevators all across Nebraska 
and Iowa on the main trunk lines. 
