| | | Wichita Union Stock Yards - Kansas 1908 | Beautiful certificate from the Wichita Union Stock Yards issued in 1908. This historic document was printed by West Litho and has an
ornate border around it with a vignette of a steer. This item has the signatures of the Company's President and Secretary and is over 98 years old.
Certificate Vignette
In 1934, it was reported in the Frisco Employees magazine that there had been an average of
8,000 Co 15,000 head of drouth cattle
in the Wichita Union Stock Yards
every day for the past twenty days,
reaching a high of 25.000 head for one
day, and reports are that movement
wiil continue for several months. The
Stock Yards Company have built fence
around a twenty acre tract of ground
which now puts total capacity of
Wichita yards a t 30,000. The operatlng
department have been on the
alert supplying ample cars and crews
to give prompt handling to stock
movement out over Frisco rails and
since the movement started we have
had approximately 700 cars to date
from Wichita.
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