The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-02
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Local References and Random Notes
OF General Interest.

to-day.
Campbell will ship to-day from Pine
Bluffs.
Wyoming cattle are mostly in excel
lent condition.
The Montana grass crop is unusually
good this year.
Durbin Brothers loaded three ears at
Rawlins yesterday.
Texas claims 400, 900 cattle and
7,000,0 900 sheep, or $40. 0O0, 600 invested.
Torrey has postponed his shipment
of twenty-three cars from Rawlins, un-
til Wednesday.
There will be many beeves marketed
late this season, because of the excel
lent fat-giving feed.
The Union Pacific railway will have
a cattle carrying trade this year of fully
$50 900 head, so it is stated.
Men on the trail report the season to
have been dry in Oregon. and the feed
proportionately poor.
The Kansas City market has received
''long horns'' this year to double the
number shipped there in 'S1.
1t is stated hat the Increase in the
western beef crop is fully 80 per cent.
greater than during any previous sea-
son.
Twenty-three cars of cattle owned
by Ora Haley, arrived at Medicine Bow
Monday morning from Winnemucca,
Nevada.
1t is estimated that more than 1885,
600 head of cattle have passed up the
trail. through Indian territory thus far
this season.
Rosenbaum, Bass q Co. sold twenty
five cars of Bosler Bros cattle yester-
terday at 1915. The market was life
less and lower.
An exchange states that there are
now 100000 head of cattle and 200, 600
head of sheep being driven from Idaho,
Oregon and Nevada, eastward.
Yesterday Gregory, Cooley q Co.
sold Voorhees, steers at So. 90. Wood
Bros. sold Voorhees, COWS at SO. 1900
5 1856. The market closed slow.
Some 10000 pounds of wool pur-
chased in this vicinity by Mr.. Geo. H.
West, was shipped from this point to-
day. 1t was consigned to Philadelphia.
-IFort Collins Express.
Evanston Chieftain: ''Messrs. John
Dykins and L. w. Spencer have sold
their herd of 1,500 cattle to parties at
Fort. Mckinney, whittier Mr.. Spencer
is driving them, being now in the Sweet
water country"
Says an exchange: In California cat
tie are unusually small, generally of
native breeds, and seldom ''rolling fat''
900 pounds is the average weight, and
1000 ID. steer is rarely seen. The
meat is of average quality, and during
the winter and spring is tender and sue
culent, but at other seasons is lean and
tough.
The largest cattle sale at the live
stock yarks at this city for some time
was that made to-day by John II. Wood
50 Co. to Thompson & Brothers, for
Libby, Mcneil 6 Libby-1,O22 head of
Texas cattle from Wyoming territory,
for "a per 100 pounds Chicago Journal,
July q. That such a large shipment
and sale of Wyoming stock should se
made "unbeknownst'' to our W cat
tie men, led to an inquiry which has re-
suited in information that the number
sold was 221, instead of 1,022, as
stated.
The business of the cattle market
north of us at Cheyenne, Wyoming, and
Ogalalla, Nebraska, has materially
stimulated cattle men on our market
with through Texas cattle, who are
inclined to hold up present figures on
all classes of stock cattle they have for
sale at this place. The bulk of through
cattle are already sold and delivered,
and many of them located on their
winter ranges; the balance will soon be
disposed of, and the season for stock
cattle on this market will soon be
closed with the grateful satisfaction to
the drovers that that the drive of 1882
has been the most satisfactory to them
of any they ever made to Kansas
Dodge City Globe.
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