The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-04-29
A WESTERN CATTLE KING
A Herd OF 10000 Cattle.
HIS LOSSES LAST WINTER


| ..
Con Kohrs, the Montana Cattle KIM, .
arrived in the tyyestertay and l. stopping
ut the Matteson House, The great stock
raiser is on his way home from Europe, where
he has been with his family for the past five
months. He LETT bis family-.wife and three
| children-at Altoona Germany, where they
| will remain until the middle of the summer,
and then go to Carlsbad, in Austrian Bohr-
mia.
| Mr.. Kohrs, who is now A. years of age, six
feet high and straight as an arrow, came to
America thirty years ago. For several years
he "knocked around" changing from one
business to another with more rapidity than
was ~ vantageous, financially considered.
| He spent one summer on the mississippi riv
| err, pulling an oar stem as a common RATS
man. Again he was to be found driving
team, farming, or following the occupation
| of a butcher. In 1857 he went to California,
| where lie engaged in mining with very in
| different success, until the summer of 1852,
when he emigrated to Montana. Here he
| again took up the butcher knife, and bought
killed and sold cattle In all the principal
towns of the Territory. Finally he com
almost without knowing it grew into the bus
iness of raising cattle. Now he has herd of
10000 head roaming over the valleys of the
Yellowstone and Sun Rivers.
Chow did your cattle come through the
winter ~ asked the rep orter
81 have been away from my ranch since
last fall, but my superintendent writes that
mr. lasa ,,yin ha al, M,
usual loss for. winter il three per cent. but
the past winter you know, has been one of
unusual severity. However, l haven't any
thing to complain of, as aseven per cant loss
will hardly break me up"
There's one thing you may mention if
you wish to, and that is the fact that | have
labored earnestly for several years to improve
the grade of cattle in Montana ] have at
present 100 short-horn heifers and cows, and
AZ many more bulls of the purest breed The
short horn breed, when crossed with what il
known as the native that il, cattle to the
manor born, for several generations
produce an excellent line of beef cattle.
In the vicinity of my home Mt Deer Lodge,
which is forty miles from Butte City and
forty-fve miles from Helena | have fenced
in 6,0OO acres of the best pasture land in Mon
tana. In this pasture my blooded horses and
cattle Craze in the summer, but in the winter
they are housed and carefully tended. Ihave
fourteen thoroughbred Clydesdalc stations,
which imported from Canada two years
ago. One of them, now a three-ycar old.cost
me 81 900. / have since been offered 5000
for the handsome fellow, but 5000 would
not Induce me to part with him."
"When do you leave for your rancho"
81 take the train Tomorrow for Davrn-
port Iowa, where my brother Henry resides.
He is engaged in the packing business there,
and is we'll known among the commission
merchants of Chicago. Of course, | shall
spend a few days with him, and then good
bye to the States 1t will be a great pleasure
to me to look over my ranging herds aud greet
my true frontier friends"
"What do you think of Montana as place
for young men to emgrate to-"
alt is the best country on earth for a man
who wants to work.. and has the pluck and
energy to accept the rough life he may ex-
pect to lead But it will finally pay, and no
who succeeds win never regret the hardships
no has had to endure"
At this iuncture Mr.. Kohrs was called aside
by one of Chicagos heaviest cattle buyers,
and the reporter left. rt