Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-25
WYOMING
Their Present Condition-Gradua
Changes in the Business.
Cheyenne Leader, June 81.

Leader, June 81.
The general appearance of cattle on
the Wyoming ranges is far better than
the average of previous years at this sea-
son. In somed districts in Central Wyom-
ing they are in superior condition. The
loss by death in the winter as seen in
riding around with the roundup is ex-
ceedingly small. The number Of calves
is satisfactory, though tho opinion is
sometimes expressed by men of expert
ence that a greater proportion has been
known in other years.
A good many young cattle have been
brought to the northern range this spring
from the Mississippi basin. The i'm
preston prevails that it is a dangerous
experiment to bring them here in the fall
and some heavy losses were sustained
during the winter by men who brought
in eastern cattle too late last year, 1t is
said that the Milwaukee and st. Paul
railway has shipped this year from one
point in Iowa $1,000 head of young
stock, all of which has been carried by
the Northern Pacific to points in eastern
IlOiitttiius IL DalO III Oooh lyoOO C0e
to the Sweetwater range a month ago.
The Searights and DR.. Thomson have
also several thousand head on the way
along the drive north at the present
time. Two thousand graded stock cattle
were unloaded at Green River last
Thursday and will be driven to Three
Crossings, where they will be delivered
to an English company operating OF
Powder river.
There are two opinions upon the bust
ness of feeding hay to cattle in the win
ter and shipping them to market early il
the spring. II is said by those who d.
not regard the venture as a paying one
that the amount of attention to be pait
cattle while feeding them is, in order t,
make the business q success, more thar
can be expected of hired men, who ar.
not interested in the sale Of cattle. II il
also said that when hay is fed to cattl,
they cease ''rustling," and require con
slant attention during stormy weather
On the other baud, the experiment ha
been successfully tried in a number o
cases the past winter. The hay fet
cattle of j. G. Beckwith, of Evanston
sold in Chicago at the same price a
Illinois corn fed beef. Beef fed in tn
same way was sold in the Denver an,
Cheyenne markets the past season, an,
pronounced of superior quality. A Car
bon county cattle man lately told tn
writer he drove a number of old cow
near to hay stacks, as he had putup NOR
hay than he could use for his horses
These old cows this spring average tn
best of his cattle in appearance. Anothe
stockman said, when spoken to on tn
subject, hat it appeared to him hat in
closing a tract of land and feeding hay u
cattle was simply transferring to Wyom
ing the method of raising cattle in Iowa
The difference was that in Iowa there i
a long, wet winter, during which corn i
fed, while in Wyoming the cattle graz
far into the winter, and during the shor
period of storms, which is comparativel
dry, they can be fed with hay.
p. b. Wilson, of Miles City, stocl
agent of the Northern Pacific railroa
company, who has just completed a tou
of the ranges in the country lying be
tween the Big Horn and Owl mountains
known rs the Big Horn and Stinkin
Water basins, was in st. Paul lately
The cattle he reports a looking Yer
finely, and that they had wintered wei
with the exception of some trail cattle
driven in from Oregon late in the fal
which were thin when they were turne
loose on the ranges. The loss anon
these was perhaps Z per cent, but tn
loss of range cattle was SO light as to |
hardly worth speaking of, The ira
for water and feed in the basin, Nj
Wilson says, is very fine. Tho seaso
! had been a remarkable one for calve
which, in number, would reach nearly {
per cent of the number of cows. He Civ,
the following list of the cattle men in I'll
: basin:
s w. A, Carter, Sinking Water BASH
5000 head; Captain III. Belknap, Stinl
s ing Water basin, 5000; Ashworth
o johnson, Sage creek, 1000; Wise q Lii
ingston, Meelteetse, 800; Otto Franz
g Grey Bull, 1000; Braxton Bros, Ora
n creek, 1000; S. Stoyner, Big Horn, 80
!, Madison & Lowell, Big Horn, 12,c0
N Harvey Broth, New Wood creek, 600
o John Soman, Shell creek, 1900. weed'