Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-02-10
The Cattle Interests.

of the Northwest has the future Of that
enterprise looked brighter or more
promising than at the present time, says
an Ogden correspondent Unless there
are unprecedented revcrses in the next
three months, the results Of 1888 will
place this country in the very foremost
rank Of the great stock growing and
producing regions of the west Great
cattle corporations, like the railroad
monopolies east are busily engaged in
| filling up all unsettled country and are
rapidly swallowing all the smaller fish
in the business Rand & Co., Of Chey-
enne, in connection with eastern capital
lists, are covering many thousands of
acres with their herds in Wyoming,
Utah and Idaho. A. III. Swan, Of Swan
Bros, ha. just received cablcgram
from parties in Edinbugh, Scotland, who
have beer negotiating the largest trans
action for many ,ears in this trade, re-
questing him to come Immediately, with
full power to close the bargain. He will
sall next week. This sale is u transfer
of 61 900 head Of cattle and few hun
dred head Of horses, the consideration
being g., 100000 The rattle were sold
at a valuation Of $50 per head, including
calves, yearlings and upwards, from
which the enormous rise in cattle dur
ing the past twelve months may be un.
dcrstood, their value year ago being
only $50 TO $22. The Powder River
Cattle company has Just flied at Chey-
cnne and other necessary points its arti
cleS of association and of incorporation,
and also copy Of the English laws un-
der which it is organized. The com
pany has capital stock of c3O0,000, or
! 81 500 ,001, and includes among it, direct
ors the duke Of Manchester, William
| Tipping. Lord Henry Neville, Ernest
Beckett pcli,on and Andrew Whitton,
while connected with the enterprise are
Alfred SHr'uris, {. fi,ch kcnp. Norton
treWcn and many other wcalthy En-
g;ishp"n. The ranch Of the rcmpany
iS on the Powder rivcr~ and Crazy
Woman's Fork, am the property is now
valued at sos Ill The pancr3 are
fcndi.hly volumirors--not detail
being omitted that English tcchnicality
could sug est. w j. Noble Of Lander
City, 40 miles north Of Rawlins. on the
Union Pacific railroad sold on: his stock
interests to A. GilciIri>!. H. &. Punket
and ii j. Winds or Of Cheyenne, for the
sum of $lG3,HW0 The cattle number
: 900, and their range is on the No Wood
river, Il trceicSS stream running through
the northern part of Swectwate county
The Swan brothers, Hlio started in the
cattle business fifteen years ago with
lest cattle men in Wyoming, their herds
being in the central part OF the territory
Their shipments last season aggregate
l2,0O0 head, amounting to over $500. 900.
They own farm of $500 acres adjoining
| lndianola, Iowa, near Des Moines,
which is stocked with about 100 head
Of cattle, including thoroughbred Here
fords and other equally famous breeds
The also havea large number of bloodcd
bulls on their ranches in Wyoming, all
of which are imported. They are in
partnership with the wealthy firm Of
George F. Morgan & Go. in importing
blooded stock, consignment having
been shipped few days ago of 25o
thoroughbred, TIerefoids from scotland,
which will be distributed throughout
their vast herds.
Large numbers Of young Englishmen
are coming to Wyoming, Utah and
Colorado to engage in the cattle and
sheep business-a colony having lately
settled in Southern Utah, where the
ranges for sheep are large and sparsely
oc lpied Many of the cattle men have
sold out their interests and are invest
ing in sheep, the past season having
been unusually profitable, many of the
sheep men having cleared 100 per cent.
Owing to the close grazing of the sheep
the ranges in some localities are being
ruined for the cattle There is trouble
brewing, in consequence, on parts Of the
Platte river and other localities. On
the head waters Of the Kiowa, for year
past, the sheep men have received an
anymous letters, warning them to move
their herds out Of that section or stand
the consequences. No attention was
paid to these threats by the sheep men.
On Thursday evening last an armed
body of masked men rode up to the
ranch of Mr.. Stephen Holden, just after
the sheep had been corralled for the
night, and after brutally beating the
herder, and leaving him unconscious