San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-02-01
THE CATTLE COUNTRY.
Notes from Utah and wyomlng,Rapia CLOWN S Of
aud Cattle Men,
Globe'DemocfHI

OGDEN, UTAH, Junu"iy a.,
Never in the history Of the cattle
trade of the northwest has the future
of that enterprise looked brighter or
more promising than at the present
time. Unless there are unprecedent-
ed reverses in the next three months,
the results of 1883 will place this
country in the very foremost rank OF
the great stock growing and produc-
ing regions of the west. Great cattle
corporations, like the railroad monop-
olies east, are busily engaged in filling
up all unsettled country and are rap
idly swallowinga all the smaller fish IN
the business.
Rand & Co., of Cheyenne, in connec-
ton with eastern capitalists, are coy
ering many thousands of acres with
their herds in Wyoming, Utah and
Idaho.
A.. H. Swan, of Swan Bros, has
Just received cablegram from parties
in Edinburgh, Scotland, who have
been negotiating the largest transac-
ton for many years in this trade, re-
ouesting him to come Immediately,
with full power to close the bargain.
He will sail next week. This sale is
transfer of 81, 900 head of cattle and
few hundred horses, the considera-
ton being $2,500,00O. The cattle
were sold at valuation of $50 per
head, including calves, yearlings and
upwards, from which the enormous
rise in cattle during the past twelve
months may be understood, their val
ue year ago being only $50 to S22.
The Powder River Cattle Company
has just filed at Cheyenne and other
necessary points its articles of associa-
ton and of incorporation, and also
copy of the English laws under which
it is organized. The company has
capital stock of 100000, or $780,
600, and includes among its Direc-
tors the Duke of Manchester, VIM.
Tipping, Lord Henry Neville, Earnest
Beckett Denison and Andrew Whitton,
while connected with the enterprise
are Alfred Sartoris, G. Fitch Kemp,
Morton Frewen and many other veal
thy EngGshmen. The ranch of the
company is on the Powder River and
Crazy Woman's Fork, and the prop
erty is now valued at $250,111. The
papers are fendishly voluminous-not
a detail being omitted that English
technicality could suggest.
w. P. Noble, of Lander City, $50
miles north of Rawlins, on the Union
Pacific Railroad, sold out his stock
interests last week to A. GilchriSt, IL.
G. Plunkett and H. J. Windsor, of
Cheyenne, for the sum of 100000.
The cattle number 1000, and their
range is on the No Wood River, a
treeless stream running through the
northern part of Sweetwater County.
The Swan Brothers, who started
in the cattle business fifteen years
ago, with less than $4,000, are to-
day the wealthiest cattle men in
Wyoming, their herds being in the
central part of the Territory. Then
shipments last season aggregated
10000 head, amounting to over $780,
900. They own farm of $500
acres adjoining Indianola, To-, near
Des Moines, which is stocked with |
about LOO head of cattle, including
thoroughbred Herefords and other
equally famous breeds. They also
have a large number of blooded bulls |.
on their ranches in Wyoming, all OF
which are imported. They are in
partnership with the wealthy firm of
George T. Morgan & Co. in import
ing blooded stock, a consignment
having been shipped last week of $50
thoroughbred Herefords from Scot
land, which will be distributed |
throughout their vast herds.
Large numbers of young English
men are coming to Wyoming, Utah
and Colorado, to engage in the cattle
business-a colony having lately set
tied in Southern Utah, where the
ranges for sheep are large and scarcely
occupied. Many of the cattle men
have sold out their Interests and are
investing in sheep, the past season
having been unusually profitable,
many of the sheepmen having cleared
100 per cent. Owing to the close
grazing of the sheep, the ranges are
in some localities being ruined for the
cattle. There is trouble brewing in
consequence on parts of the Plat
River and other localities. On the
headwaters of the Kiowa, for year
past, the sheep men have received
ANONYMOUS letters, warning them to