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Why did cattle rancher want to get the cattle to the northern and eastern states?
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∙ 13y ago
Access to markets. Cattle are grown in open rangeland, but there's nobody there who will pay a high price for them. Buyers are in big cities like New York or Chicago.
The fundamental rule of markets is to buy things where they are cheap, and then take them to places where they are expensive and sell them there. The development of the railroads gave people the ability to do just that.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 13y agoBecause that's where the big cities were where people were willing to pay good money for beefsteak.
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∙ 14y agoTo take them to auction to sell and to the stock yards. That was where the railroad was so the sold cattle/beef could be shipped East to market.
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Railroads were built into Texas so cattle could be rapidly shipped to the eastern markets?
Not really, railroads were built in all of the western states, not just Texas, so that yes, cattle could be shipped to the eastern markets.
How could western farmers use the railroad to make money?
Western Cattle Ranchers herded the cattle to the railroad stops, so they could take them to the northern and eastern states, because in the west the population of the cattle were great. So, a cattle was $4 each. But in the northern and eastern states, the supply was not grand, so a cattle was $40 each. Since there weren't many farms in the north and the east, there wasn't a grand supply of cotton, lilac (So they can die), cigar plants, rice, beans and much more. They had to trust the southern plantations to send the livestock up to the north, so they could use those supplies to stock up their buisnesses, and homes.
Where is the eastern woodlands location?
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How did the growth of the railroad help the cattle industry?
Refrigerated railroad cars could take the processed meat to the East. Actually the railroads enabled ranchers to drive their cattle shorter distances to the trains that came to their most local cow-town. The railroads allowed cattle to be transported long distances, quickly and efficiently to distant markets. This meant that herding of cattle on foot over long distances, using much man power, would eventually be consigned to the western cowboy movies.
What city is the cattle of Texas?
Texas is a state, not a city. Texas is the cattle state of the United States. Otherwise your question does not make much sense.
Why did cattle ranchers want to get the cattle to the northern and eastern states?
Because there was a ready market short on fresh meat.
Why did cattle ranchers want to get the cattle the northern and eastern states?
Because there was a ready market short on fresh meat.
Why did the cattle ranchers want to get the cattle to the northern and eastern states?
Because there was a ready market short on fresh meat.
Why did cattle ranchhers want to get the cattle to the northern and eastern states?
Before the coming of the railways, and cattle wagons, cattle drives were a regular feature of a cattleman's business. The aim was to get their cattle to a market in the north and eastern states, whose population was expanding at a rapid rate, a population that needed feeding.
Why did the cattle ranchers want to get the cattle to the northern and eastren states?
Because people would pay pretty good money for the beef (as food - for steaks, etc.) By getting them to the Northern and Eastern states, they made their profits.
Why did cattle ranchers want to get the cattle to the northern and easstern states?
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Where is cattle farming practiced in India?
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Most Northern Eastern Southern and Western US states?
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