. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. LOOKING FOR A BRAND. money almost as soon as if he had shipped the cattlehimself. Of the money received for estrays but a smallproportion has been turned into the state, and evenwhere it has, if a man can prove by the records thatmoney belonging to him from the sale of one stray steerhas gone into the treasury, it is never too late for himto recover it. Mr. Landers is judge, jury and law on this subject 258 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY at the Union Stockyards, Chicago, and the qualifica-tions required
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. LOOKING FOR A BRAND. money almost as soon as if he had shipped the cattlehimself. Of the money received for estrays but a smallproportion has been turned into the state, and evenwhere it has, if a man can prove by the records thatmoney belonging to him from the sale of one stray steerhas gone into the treasury, it is never too late for himto recover it. Mr. Landers is judge, jury and law on this subject 258 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY at the Union Stockyards, Chicago, and the qualifica-tions required to fill the position are such as have notbeen bestowed upon every one. The work of tracingbrands alone will be seen to be no small task when itis known that Montana alone has 15,000 differentbrands. Until the present time Texas has had almost a mo-. AN OBSTINATE ONE. nopoly of the business of furnishing cattlemen of otherstates with the young steers with which to re-stocktheir ranches It is now evident that Texas alone can-not supply this demand in the future,and it is probablethat Arizona, Washington and Idaho combined willsoon equal Texas, as she now ranks, as a source for thissupply. With this change and with the comparatively recent OF THE UNION STOCKYARDS 259 iDtroduction of the railroad into the West, one of themost picturesque features of cattle ranging has beenabandoned. That was the existence of the great trailto the North, over whicli thousands of cattle might beseen every year slowly grazing their way was a time, not so long ago, when to bring cattle
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