Title: Economic and Marketingjunctions in the Livestock and Meat Trade at For tlanden Abstract Approved: Signature redacted for privacy.

The purpose of this study is to bring together some data relating to the general structure of the Portland livestock and meat trade and to describe some phases of the functfonal process of concen-tration and dispersion in physical terms as well as treat with some factors significant to the marketing picture. The importance of the geographical location of the transportation routes has been of con-siderable significance in the developemnt of the Portland market as an outlet for the livestock production of eastern Oregon and southern Idaho. The volume of livestock reaching the market has not kept pace with the growth of human population of the area. There has been evident some increase of 'direct ' livestock receipts as well as an increase of imports of cured meats. Complete data on this export-import balance of dressed meats are lacking but it would appear that this trade will be of greater significance in the future than in the past