The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-03-28
A HORNED QUEEN.
WHO EXACTS NO Tribute BUT
DISTRIBUTES WEALTH
GALORE"
Food for Thought about Food tor Hungry
Men who Relish Grass in Form
of Savory Steaks.

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will not sell his 1900 marketable steers
this season at less than SIS per head in
dicates that stockmen generally are tum-
bling to the situation. The demand for
stock cattle is constantly on the in
crease Companies are almost daily
being formed in the U. s., and expert
enced firms are doing their best to in
crease their investment
THE LARGE PROFITS
have attracted the attention Of the Brit
ish who find that 1.-The roast beef of old
England" is growing scarce at home.
Apart from the matter of profit it is sur
missed that absolute necessity in the way
of supplying their population has forced
the attention of British capitalists to
stock-raising i'll the United States.
Among the companies now in operation
we will mention the Prairie Cattle Co.,
Of Edinburg, capital 100000; The
Texas Land and Cattle Co., Dundee,
$2,OO0,O0O; The Cattle and Ranch Com
pany, London; $3,O0o,O00; The Maxwell
Cattle Co., Scotch. first issue of bonds
$1,0O0,00O; The Francl1lyn Cattle CO.,
$4,000, 600, and the Powder River Cattle
Co., English, 81, ,50O,oO
FOREIGN CAPITAL
thus largely employed plainly illustrates
that cheap money is seeking investment
in property yielding larger income
than any other legitimate pursuit. Aus
f,,Jtx hu
lsh money for the purpose of producing
supply for the mother country, and
Englishmen own nearly all the cattle ia
South America. The fact that they are
providing for the future by purchasing
our best herds proves that all things con-
sidered our cattle are relatively the
cheapest in the world. Capacious as are
our resources for raising beef, the fact
remains that unless the conditions ham
pering it's increase are removed a gener-
alton hence our laboring classes will
suffer the same deprivation as their cous-
ins in Europe.
The Plttshurg tStock1l021 sounds key
note Of warning which comes just in
time. Speaking of English and Scotch
capital going into the cattle business in
the United States, it says "The prime
objects of these English capitalists un-
questionably is to prepare themselves for
supplying their home markets, and thus
carry on a heavy export trade from the
United States by which the United
States will not be- greatly benefited.
This may some day become seriously
embarrassing to our live stock commerce,
and as a matter of sufficient gravity to
merit attention. With a large def
cheney in our home productions, with a
certainty that Europe will demand a
larger amount of meat for the next few
years, it does seem to us that capitalists
in this country are not as fully awake TO
the Importance of producing more meat
and controlling those productions as our
foreign neighbors The United States is
short of q meat supply for her own pop
ulation, and if we sit still and let Euro
pean capitalists control its productions,
it will cause a reduction of emigration
to the country; it will cause meat pro-
ducts to advance too rapidly for our peo-
pie to accommodate themselves to the
change. We invite capital to home in
vestments. but we would rather see
Americans reap the harvest, which IS
sure to follow, where money is put into
lands and stock"
There is no injury done the cattle IN
terests by having home capitalists en-
gagged in it. Tt makes it better TOR al
concerned No matter how high the
prices paid time shows that the judg
ment of tie purchaser is better than thai
of the seller.
THE KEY TO THE SITUATION
is held by the steckmen of the presen
time, and those that retain their herd
will be the millionaires of the future
The small owners need not despair
sharing the golden harvest. 1t Will pa,
a man better to look after a hundred
/ herd now than it would thre
hundred a few years ago. III
/ applies particularly to Montaha
/ where individual ranges are not recos
nized; hence definite system musI %
enforced by stockmen among themseive
whereby the expense and proflt OF th
business may be proportionate and equi'
/ able
POOLING THEIR INTERESTS
| would perhaps be the best way 70 at'ai'
/ the desired end IF the stockmen upo