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LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE CENTER, OF ACTIVITYFormer “King of the Promoted Stockyards as Move to Build DistrictBrick and Stone Building Modernly Constructed and Contains Sixteen Offices.Built of brick and stone taken from the old Baptist college building at Webb City, which was purchased and wrecked by the Joplin stockyards company, the livestock exchange building In the center of the stockyards grounds Is to bethe center of business transactions at the yards.It is a modernly constructed one-story-and-basement building containing sixteen offices with five rooms in the basement.Home of Commission Firms.The office rooms will be used by the five commission firms to operate at the yards and by the general offices, including a private office for L. P. Buchanan, president, and H. D. Patterson, general manager of the yards.There also will be rooms for display purposes, a telegraph room and a room with a two-chair barber shop.The building also contains a large blackboard on which the latest quotations from leading livestock markets of the world, received at the yards, will be posted.Telephone service also will . be maintained at the building.In the basement will be a laboratory for the stockyards veterinarian, for use in making tests for livestock diseases. The basement also contains locker rooms and shower baths for the convenience and accommodation of stockyards patrons.The building stands to the north of the main stockyards pens and buildings, back from the main entrance into the stockyards from Newman avenue on the north. There are rocked and graveled grounds and parkways all around it. The lawn immediately surrounding It is to be sodded and a flagpole erected at one corner.The exchange building has entrances on the north and the south.DR. HARUTUN DECLARES STOCKYARDS RANK HIGH FROM SANITATION VIEWDAIRY AND AUCTION DARN A BIG FEATURE1Stockman of Wide Experience Will Be Stockyards ManagerPeriodical Auctions and District-Wide Salosdays Will Be Conducted.L. P. BUCHANAN.The man who was king of theThe joplin district stockyards are second to none with regard to modern construction and sanitation, in the opinion of Dr. M. B. Harutun, commissioner of health and sanitation, who has visited many of the largest stockyards of the nation as a health official.“They were built correctly from a sanitation viewpoint from the start,” said Dr. Harutun, “and citizens of Joplin need have no fear about the sanitary conditions. I have visited a dozen of our largest stockyards and the Joplin yards are second to none. They will be in no way harmful to the health of the citizens. They are a distinct credit to the city.”The health commissioner said that odors, such as sometimes emanate from stockyards, are not injurious to health. Few germs arc carried in the air except by means of dust, he said, adding that people who desire to see their ity grow and expand and progress should be willing to endure the slight unpleasantness of occasional bad odors and a little smoke.Dr. Harutun also pointed out that the Joplin-stockyards will be under the inspection and supervision from a health standpoint of the federal, state and city governments.PAINTS FURNISHED BY QUISENBERRY-BATHURSTAll paints for interior and outside decoration of buildings at the Joplin stockyards were furnished through the Quisenberry-Bathurst Company, 623 Main street, district distributors and wholesalers and itailers for Sherwin-Williamspaint products.The Quisenberry-Bathurst Company also does a wholesale -'and retail wall paper business through the district and handles an exclusive line of retail wall paper, imported and domestic. The concern also is a district distributor of linseed oil.lead and jack miners in the heyday of the Tri-State mining district has come to the rescue of the now slackened industry with a new prospect” that gives promise of “pay dirt” for the land of his fortune.Instead of a new field of mine ore, however, his new “strike” is new industry.He has built with a group of associates the largest truck-in stockyards in the world in Joplin, Hub of what is called the greatest lead and zinc field in the world, and has mapped out a program to bring a new era of growth and development by building up, a large livestock, dairy and agricultural industry to supplant mining as the district’s chief business.Started as Day Laborer.He is L. B. (Buck) Buchanan, who started out as a pick-and-shov-el miner, a day laborer, and became the largest and wealthiest individual mine operator in the ' mining belt in a hectic yet spectacular andromantic career.The quarter-milllon-dollar stock-yai'ds are to be opened August 31, after an inspection and salesday August 27, and with Buchanan at their head few persons familiar with the man and his successful career in mining doubt but that he will be successful' in his new role i a stockyards promoter.Already the stockyards project has been widely hailed as the greatest enterprise developed since the first rich strikes of lead and zinc more than half a century ago. It is viewed as a project that eventually will see fertile fields with herds grazing where mine, mills once rumbled.Buchanan and his associates will operate the yards not as a private enterprise for. personal gain, but as a district institution for equal benefits to the entire trade territory.Buchanan envisioned the venture after his return from a couple of trips around the world a few years ago. He had sold his vast mining interests and quit, well over a millionaire, He had grub-staked” many of his 'irmer buddie miners and has given jobs to hundreds in his prosperous mines, and he had otherwise assumed the role of philanthropist for the district that to him held a strange fascination and affection.Bultt Large '.Estate.He had invested in district enterprises and had built a half-million-dollar suburban estate east qf theIn Step With ProgressNew Stockyards—which will bring greater prosperity to the entire district. The district can be justly proud of this new enterprise and we congratulate Mr. Buchanan and associates.Visit Our Booth at the Stockyards, Thursday, Aug. 27- 714-1(5 Main St.Jopfin, Mo.city near where he once had dug in the ground as a day-laborer.But something more was needed, he thought, to help the community. He thought . about re-entering the mining business, but depression had hit that industry.Then he hit upon the stockyards idea, dreamed of it, studied it and mapped out a plan. With the aid of the Chamber of Commerce last year he organized a company of local business men who incorporated for'$100,000 and set about finding a suitable stockyards site.But in'a community that knew more about lead and zinc than it did about cattle, hogs and sheep, the idea at first was not so popular. Four sites were selected and each time the stockyards group met strong opposition with threats of lawsuits, Injunctions, boycott, and even death threats were sent to the promoter.Buchanan, in active charge, ran the gamut of them all, and finally a site was purchased on an 80-acre tract in the northeast outskirts of the city. That was early this year.Building operations started and they soon took on larger proportions than even the backers had anticipated.‘I took them at their word when they gave me a_ checkbook and told me to start building,” said Buchanan, who promptly set about laying out a community within itself. He served without salary or other consideration, put large amounts of his own money into the development and induced allied enterprises to make large expenditures.Other Features Incorporated.He built livestock pens with a daily capacity of 9,000 head of cattle, sheep, hogs and mules in order to provide the largest truck-in yards ever built. Ninety per cent of the livestock to be marketed here will be trucked in from parts of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.He also built a livestock exchange building of brick and stone, a brick hotel, a filling station and garage, a hay barn, two mule barns, an auction and dairy barn and a feed mill on the grounds. Other buildings are to be erected later.The Missouri Pacific railroad spent about $30,000 building two switches and a bridge into the yards. Two miles of water mains were built to the yards and two reinforced concrete bridges and about three miles of new roads were constructed to make the yards more accessible. Even a stockyards park was laid out in a woods on a hill overlooking the new industry.Some folks remained skeptical until the project was nearly completed, but the whole district finally grasped the magnitude of the new industry. And Buchanan, ex-miner, became widely known as a stockyards promoter, thereby beginning a new but vastly different chapter in his career.Buck Buchanan began his mining career in early manhood soon afterhe came here with his parents in 1880 from Fayetteville, Ark., where he was born In 1878. His education was in the public schools at Webb City, a town near Joplin:He worked as a shoveler and day laborer in the old I Know,” the ‘John Jackson,” the Pelican” and other famous old mines. He sunk the second shaft that made the second strike in Duenweg.Took Up Promotion.For several years he was contented to work in the mines but in 1908 ■ he took up promotion. He promoted and sold the Tillhoe mine in Tanyard Hollow and then became associated with the William ICeneflck interests of Kansas City in the promotion and sale of mines over the district.Among properties Jhe operated nd sold were the Anna Lee at Spring City, the old Muskingdon west of Joplin and the Sampson.In 1915 hq went to the northeast Oklahoma territory when the first rich strikes of ore were made there and with S. K. Qrfc sank the firstshaft put down in what later became the famous Picher field.The mine was a complete failure and Buchanan went broke, losing the small fortune he had built up in promotion work.That was the way of the mining game and Buchanan, while discouraged, was not .ready to give up. He took the Blue Mound lease, which later . became famous, and made a rich strike. Ho operated it as sole owner until he s6ld out to the Kenefick interest for a sizeable fortune.Moving on to the new Waco field in Kansas he took options on two leases, one forty and the other eighty acres. A drill hole of the leases had shown a rich strike, but when other test holes were drilled to locate the extent of the supposed ore bed Buchanan discovered he “Had been stung.” The hole of the supposed “rich strike,” he figured, had ‘salted.”Struck It Rich at Waco.With his fortune again in danger Buchanan directed his driller to put down one, more hole “anyplace on the lease you want to.”The drill rig was moved over short distance from where the other four holes had been drilled and it struck the richest mine ever opened up in the district.Again, that was the way of the mining game, and Buchanan capitalized on his good fortune. The mine, named the Acme, developed rapidly. Buchanan sold the entire lease to a group of New York bankers who retained him as manager for five years.But he bought them out again, erected two 500-ton mills electrically equipped, put eleven shafts into operations and employed 320 to 350 men. For the next two years his mines ranked as the ninth greatest producers of ore in the entire Tri-State field and Buchanan became the largest individual operator in the territory, producing more ore and employing more men than any other individual operator.He again sold his group of holdings to another New York banking house and quit mining a few years ago—King of the Miners;Well over a millionaire he selected a suburban acreage nearOne of the most important features of the Joplin district stockyards to the trades territory Is the huge dairy and auction barn adjacent to the stock pens, in which periodical auctions and district-wide salesdays : will be conducted with equal advantages to all merchants and farmers throughout the district.It is a block-long frame structure with a capacity of about 500 head of dairy cattle and a seating capacity around the auction circle of approximately 800.Outside the big barn is a large platform fourteen by eighty feet on which miscellaneous articles, including furniture, offered for sale by district dealers will be auctioned off on the salosdays.Salesdays Each Friday.Salesdays are to be conducted under the direct supervision of the stockyards management each Friday after opening day. Articles offered by merchants and others will be sold to the highest bidder.Merchants will be required to agree to give to the purchaser, if the latter so desires, other merchandise to the equal value of the article purchased in exchange for the commodity auctioned off.It is to be , a sort of exchange market for equal benefits to merchants and buyers, and in which no merchant or group of merchants from any one town or city in the district will bo shown preference or favoritism. All will be invited to participate.It is the purpose of the management to provide as many good bargains to patrons as possible.The dairy barn also will facilitate another object of the stockyards company in promoting and stimulating the production throughout the district of high-grade dairy cattle. A ready market will be provided for them.WALLACE BROS. TO 1 SUPPORT STOCKYARDS |IIABVE It. rATTEHSON.where ho had tolled in the ground in early manhood and built Ills estate, the largest and finest in Jasper county and one of the show places of southwest Missouri.Ho decided to travel. After two trips around the world, however, he. came back home intending to re-enter the mining business, but ho found conditions-unfavorable.It was than that lie conceived the idea of the stockyards, feeling that lie could find no better way to help his home community with his time and his money.Although he talks little of his investments, Buchanan has large and varied holdings. He owns the largest and best equipped coal mine in Oklahoma. It is In the Henryotta field und has a daily capacity of 1,500 tons.There are a number of other interesting facts concerning his career. He has sold moro mlnos than probably any other man in tho district and has paid more for individual properties than any other operator.During the five years ho operated at Waco he carried Ills own insurance on his men and can boast that he never had a lawBuit during the entire period of his operations. The average of his mines was 200 accidents and five deaths a year and he settled each claim personally without anyone filing, a suit. This, he believes, is a record unequaled by any other operator. To make such a record he followed the motto: “Take care of the other fellow first.”Gets Sheep Flock.Knoxville, Tenn.— (/P) —In the spring of 1930, H. J. Donaldson of Blount county, had two ewes. They produced twin lambs that season. In 1931 the ewes and their offspring produced Iambs, bringing the flock up to 13, without purchase of additional sheep.Harve R. Patterson, general manager of tho Joplin district stockyards, is regarded as one of the most widely known stockmen and' experienced stockyards managors in the southwest.Much of tho responsibility for the success of tho yards rests upon his shoulders for ho will bo in active charge of tho management from tho start of business. In fact, ho has been on tho grounds slnco last Juno 15 aiding in tho supervision of construction,Ho will bo governed, of course, as to certain policies by tho president, L. P. Buchanan, and tho stockyards board of directors, but his resourceful knowledge of stockyards operations and his wldo acquaintance witli livestock producers over tho entire trade territory made him one of tho most important cogs in the stockyards machinery.It has been said by some of ills friends that Patterson is probably the best known and oneof tho host liked stockyards men, in, the four-stato territory of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Ho is quiet and unassuming, but his judgment in matters of management and operation is respected by his associates.Patterson moved here with his family from Springfield where ho founded tho Union stockyards and where he acquired much of his experience and ills wldo acquaintance, Ho sold his interests in tho Union yards about a year ago but had boon rotainod as general manager until tho Joplin Stockyards, Inc., persuaded him to come hero,Ho operated the Frisco livestock feoding Btatlon in Springfield beginning in May, 1920. Thon, in 192(1, lie look over tho management of tho Springflolc stockyards, holding that position throe years.In 1929 ho organized tho Union Stockyards Company, which soon became tho largest and most successful yards in that city. Ho sold out in August, 1929, to tho prosont ownership.In about two years ho built up tho Union yards to tho point where between eighty and ninety carloads of livestock were shipped out each week.Ho is enthusiastic over tho pros-pocts of tho Joplin yards, .which aro considerably lnrKor than those at Springfield. Ho feels confident they will be highly successful, and that they will offer groalor opportunities for larger development and expansion thnn tho Sprlhgflcld yards. He believe* thoy are destined to become one of the largest livestock markets In the southwest.Patterson came hero highly recommended by Springfield, business men, who oxpressod regret upon his departure from that city.Ho lias purchased a liomo In Royal Helslits in ordor to bo near tho plant ho is to operate.One or Three Largest Tacking Con- * corns In Dlstrlot to Become | Customer of Now Industry. ViWallace Brothers, one of the three largest paoklng companies | and wholesale meat produota concerns In the district, will bo patrons of the Joplin stockyards. , ■“Wo are in sympathy with tlio -5 stockyards and will support, them,” | said Herman Wallnco, president of j; tho firm, which was founded here Vi twonty-sevon years ago. “We bo-;;! Hove they will ho a distinct assot to ;! tho ontlro community.To Buy Locally. fWallaco Brothers have boon buy- 5 lug most of their livestock for kill- V ing locally at. their market at their | well equipped packing house north j of tho city. Thoy have boon doing | some buying on the Kansas City market, but wlion the Joplin stock- ” yards aro opened they expoct to do ;•$ considerable buying boro. 'fiTho Wallaco Brothors oompany Is owned by Herman Wallaco and; J his brother, William M. Wallaoo.!| Their downtown retail storo, stockroom and wholosale department is g at 1(102 -Main street, a modern brlclc lt;building which tho company owns, Tho firm was established twenty!:!* sovon yoat-B ago at Sevontaonth and Main streets, but nlno years later was movod t.o its prosont loca-!| tlon, Tho owners built their own'f packing plant and tho company now does nil of Its own killing, compioto lino of meat produots ll also Is manufactured at tho plant, Wallaco Brothers do a substantial i wholosalo business throughout;;! oiglit or nlno counties in southwest | Missouri. About thirty-five men, V-Including several snloamon, are,;| regularly employed.The retail market at Sixteenth ,|j and Main also handles a grocery ; iind vogotnblo line.PLUMBING INSTALLEDBY SCHULTE COMPANY IThe H. B. Sohulto Plumbing Com-J; pany, 510 Joplin stroot, Installed J much of tho plumbing at tho Joplin stockyards.Under contract Scliulto put In the : plumbing work in tho livestock ; cxehango building, in tho mulo and Vi dairy barns and modernized tho | scale houses In tho stockyards pons.All of tho work was done undor:4| I he personal supervision of Schul te,'L who is one of tho best known plumbers in Joplin and the die-( trlct. I-Ils firm, which offices;! downtown, iu one of the largest v in tho city. Tho company handles’; ! a complete line of plumbing fix-. tures.George N. Splva, Joplin capitalist who is financially interested in the Joplin stockyards, made tho following statement concerning establishment of the stockyards:“The Joplin stockyards is 'an Industry in which Joplin can justly feel proud. In construction it is second to none. It will inspire confidence in both buyer and seller and no doubt will increase values in our wonderful stock-raising district. It is far-reaching in its scope in this new era of tho trucking system, and we as a community are to be congratulated in having a citizenship with enterprise enough to create Buch an institution.”IT IS A PLEASURE TO WELCOMETHE JOPLIN STOCKYARDS, INC.Nothing can be more significant to the progress of Joplin than those things which develop our farm territory. The new $250,000 Stockyards assures the farmer a good market for all the hogs, sheep and cattle he can raise and will contribute materially to farm prosperity.We are more than glad to welcome this new enterprise.The Inter-State Grocer Co.JOPLIN, MO.We Welcome andCongratulateThe Joplin Stockyards, Inc.We recognize in the completion and opening of the new Stockyards an important connection between Joplin and the farm territory which surrounds us. The quar-ter-million-dollar investment is a distinct contribution to our farm prosperity.Junge’s stand solidly beMnd anything that contributes to the welfare of Joplin and this trade territory.Junge’sSALTEDQuakerelteCRACKERS.Junge Baking Company“Products That Please in the Basket Weave”
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