Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-29

wires are used, taking $3.50 posts and
As, 600 pounds of wire to complete the
job.
The great cattle range of Wyoming.
under the military protection of Fort
Mckinney, is about 800 miles square.
and SOC, 600 head of cattle, worth S27 per
head, or S13,000,0OO in all, are grazing
on the area. To these can be added the
value of the horses and ranches of the
cattlemen and farmers, and the stock of
the grangers, making at least S15,OO0,-
600 of property under the protection of
this post.
1t is reported from New York that a
stock company with capital of over
ZOO, 600 has been formed, which pro-
proposes to erect retail butcher shops in
all parts of New York and BROOKLYN for
the purpose of handling western Dress
ed beef, to which much hostility has
been manifested by local butchers.
j. r. Stoller returned Monday from
Colorado, where he had been for three
weeks. The grass in Colorado is now
good, but cattle have not been fattening
very fast as the rains have been very
frequent and the grass .'washy.'' In
conversation with Colorado Tanchmens
Mr.. StoHer learned that they were par
tial to the Kansas City market when
freight rates were not made to discrim-
| lnafp qUainCt fhic oitxr
Large capitalists have gone into the
business of cattle raising in Texas. and
bought up great ranges of land, and
soon free pasturage will be a thing of
the past. Having the money to fence
as well as buy the land, most of the
large ranges are being enclosed with
wire. More than 100000, 900 would
be required to purchase the cattle
now roaming over the state. Half of
this value, according to the best testi--
mony, is the increase of cattle within
two years.
The beef product of Montana will fall
far short this summer of what it was
last. Many of the best posted cattle
growers estimate that the seasons ship
ments will not reach last years figures
by % per cent. This is principally due
TO the exceedingly large loss of calves
during the hard winter three years ago.
Nearly all the fall branding and con-
siderable number of the spring BRAND
ing perished that winter. The usual age
at marketing beeveS has been at four
years old, but the good prices lastyear in
| duced most stock growers to sell their
three-year Olds. The yield was, howe, :
er, light, owing to the black-leg which
played such havoc among the calves the
year previous to the hard winter. Next
year, however, the harvest will be good.
and confined largely to four-year-olds,
as extensive growers have learned that
they commit an error in marketing their
steers before they reach that age, and
there is great outcome in three-year-
olds; besides, at the age of four they
are better fitted for the market.
South America is the land of cheap
beef after ALL In that country cattle
have increased so rapidly the past year
that fat bullocks have declined from $40
per head to few cents over So per head
which. for all practical purposes, seems
low enough for fat bullock, consider
ing the hide is worth, in the English
market, about one half that sum. Late
advices say the season, especially for
lambing, has been favorable, and that
the Saladeros, of Montevideo, the Chi
cago of South America, were preparing
| jerked beef for the markets of the coun-
try. 1t is estimated that in two years
from now the number of cattle in the
Argentine Confederation will number
100000, against 100000 in 1877.
100000 of which are in the state of
Buenos Ayres. The confederation also
claim 6O,0O0,0O0 sheep, 10000 goats, and
100000 horses and $4,000 ostriches.
The population is only about two to the
| square mile, against 200 in Belgium.
Taking food animals exclusively, how
ever, we yet make good showing with
other animals in proportion.
Josiah Hale writes to Campbell, Lam
caster x Co., from Colorado, Texas, un-
der date of June 8, as follows: 81 have
been to Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, Cis-
co, Baird, Brownwood, and arrived here
yesterday. There will be no fat cattle
to ship from any of these places within
three weeks. went sixty miles south
of the road to Brownwood, and saw no
cattle l thought would do to ship before
August. l have been out six miles from
herei to-day, to roundup, where
there were four to five thousand cattle,
and / saw no fat ones. Stockmen say
their cattle are mohth behind last
year. There have been few shipments
made from here, but no general ship
ments will be made before July l, and
there will not be many very good beeves
then. Grass is good here. Cows and
calves sell at S4O.OO(dS50.O0, heifer year
lings $1,000 steers, $15.00.-Indicator
Peter Stewart, of Wellington, X ins.,
was in the city the past week, or his
way home from Chicago. He had just
completed the purchase of the Spears
ranch in New Mexico for So, 0,OO0 cash
This ranch is located near the Albro,
Mcknight and Spauldings ranch, which
Mr.. Stewart recently purchased for the
sum of $40. 800 The cattle and entire
outfit of these two ranches will be turn
ed over July 15.
Capt I'D. Reed, of Ft. Worth, Texas
who has been in the city few weeks
past, left for the west last Friday.
While here he sold for the firm-Reed,
Word & Byler-to Quinlan, Montgom-
cry & Oburn, 5000 steers to be delivered
at Ft. Reno, during July, August and