McCoy encouraged Texas cattlemen to drive their herds to his stockyards. He encouraged Texas cattlemen to drive their herds to his stockyards. Some railroads built their own stockyards in Chicago. Dodge City became a boomtown, with thousands of cattle passing annually through its stockyards. The jobbing and wholesaling district brought new jobs, followed by the railroads and the stockyards. They found employment in Chicago stockyards and Pennsylvania cement and steel factories. They are also used for pest control at airports, warehouses, stockyards, etc. They are also used for pest control at airports, warehouses, stockyards and the like. By the 1890s, the railroad money behind the Union Stockyards was Vanderbilt money. Many of the immigrants worked in the stockyards and surrounding factories. There is also an opry and the weekly Stockyards Championship Rodeo. In 1957 the stockyards and meat packing employed half the workers of Omaha. Its facilities were to become the Kansas City Stockyards. Stitt's paternal grandfather was formerly the head veterinarian at the Oklahoma City Stockyards. The Fort Worth Stockyards are a National Historic District.