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Updated: June 13, 2025
Towards the north end of the paddock was a narrow gully with great sandstone walls all round, and where it narrowed the first discoverers had built a stockyard, partly with dry stone walls and partly with logs and rails.
Kiss your old dad; like as not you won't see him again. We'd got the horses in. I lifted her up on to the saddle, and she rode out. Her horse was all on the square, so there was no harm in her taking him back with her, and off we went. Dad didn't go after all. We took it easy out to the old stockyard.
The impression on Job's mind which many years afterwards brought about the incident was strong enough. When Job was a boy of fourteen he saw his father's horse come home riderless circling and snorting up by the stockyard, head jerked down whenever the hoof trod on one of the snapped ends of the bridle-reins, and saddle twisted over the side with bruised pommel and knee-pad broken off.
The great packers would rather talk of "by-products" than of these things. Always they have been poor, so very poor! For a time the railroads east of the stockyard cities of Kansas City and Chicago divided up pro rata the dressed beef traffic. Investigation after investigation has been made of the methods of the stockyard firms, but thus far the law has not laid its hands successfully upon them.
Therefore he wrote to strangers on a purely business basis to amazing types lately emerged from the submerged, bulging with coal money, steel money, copper money, wheat money, stockyard money types that galloped for Fifth Avenue to build town houses; that shook their long cars and frisked into the country and built "cottages."
But the whole mob set off the moment we came near, and crossed the river again, entailing a tenth wetting upon poor F . I was posted at the entrance of the gorge, with instructions to shout and otherwise keep them from going up by the route we had just come; but it was more than an hour before F could get round the wary brutes, so as to turn them with their heads towards the stockyard.
It was when he had gathered the first train load of big, rollicky steers for market and was watching Jim Bleeker close the stockyard gate on the tail of the herd at Tower, the nearest shipping point, that the disagreeable element came in the person of Dill and the news he bore.
The word "staple," from meaning the town or market, got applied by an easy process to the commodity dealt in; so that when we now say that the Vermont staple is hay, we mean that this is the main crop raised in Vermont. But the staple like the modern stockyard or exchange tended to monopoly and was abolished for this reason.
They had followed our track thus far on the information they had received from the native, Mr. Brown, and were proceeding to examine The Barber's stockyard. They informed us that our native guide confessed to them that his dread of the savage natives had induced him to return. The river remained unswollen. February 27. As we continued our homeward journey Mr. Brown overtook us.
In such a fortification I considered that the men would be perfectly safe, and as the stockyard was in a short range of the carbines I felt the cattle would be sufficiently protected. I selected Flood, Lewis, and Joseph to accompany me, and took 15 weeks provisions.
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