The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-05-08
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winter. Pioneer Press. .ss:s5
. A,branding machine has been invent
ed BY which the work has been consider
ably lightened. The ANIMAL Is driven
into.a machine and suspendsa Id sneh d
way as to render strug Cling Impossible.
# is thought that II VIII ONE ;insgsfl-
|eral use. 3
Gregor Lang returned from st. Paul
Tuesday evening. To-day or tomorrow
about six hundred cattleWill arrive for
him and as many more will soon follow.
These will be added to his present herd
on the Neimnela ranch, situated about
fifty miles up the river.
That any Of our stock men should put
in scrub bulls on the score of economy is
past all understanding. a moments
thought should convince any one that
a graded bull pays for itself every year
in the increased value Of his progeny.
In four or five years the herd viii be
twice as valuable as it would be if scrub
stock were used. ,s3 @
The increaseof the cattle family Of
Colorado from the calf crop and from i'm
portations from abroad, will be quite
half a million the present year Twenty
years ago big fat oxen sold IN Tie streets
Of Denver for forty and fifty dollars a
pair. To-day the beef brutes that would
have gone fifty dollars in those early
times, would bring hard on to a;hundred
and fifty.-[Denver journal Of Commerce.
NJ. Wadsworth is in town awaiting the
arrival of q thousand head of cattle, com
ing from Minnesota. II. B. Wadsworth
who owns the reversed L herd, Ii with
them. These cattle will be added to the
herd at present on the home ranch. Mr..
Wadsworth reports that out Of the herd
OF sixteen hundred head only twenty-five
have died, hardly enough for natural
loss. Not an animal died on account Of
the cold although a number Of them
were pilgrims. a;,.s 5;,aa.. 5
1t competition gives life to any enter.
prise it certainly does to breeding and
raising horses, says The National Stock
man. The man who is afraid to go int int
this business simply because there are
others at it in his community, certainly
does not look at the matter in the right
light. The greater the number in any
community the better it will be for each
one thus engaged and the best thing a
man can do who is breeding any kind OF
horses is to persuade his neighbors, if he
can, to join him in his work.
On the 18th inst, the committee ap-
pointed by the Wyoming Stock Growers
association to go to Washington to advo-
cate the passage of the pleuro-puenumo-
MIA bill, invited the stock men and COM
mission merchants of Chicago to meet
them ct the Grand Pacific Hotel; The
committee men then argued to convince
them that the bill was essential for the
absolute protection Of the immense stock
interests Of the west, pointed out to them
that every stock association had passed
resolutions urging its passage, and ap-
pealed to the commission men to with
draw their opposition. According to pub
lished reports Of the conference, no favor
able progress was made and the commit
tee went on to Washington.-[New Mexi-
co Stock Grower, ~
The cattle men of the Shonkin range
sent force of eight or ten men q few
days ago to drive the cattle out Of Arrow
creek country this way, where the grass
is better, and they have just completed
the task. Tom Martin, who superintended
the work, reports that a great majority Of
the cattle are in fine cond ition, and a
large number of young calves are already
to be seen, with every prospect Of an un-
usually prolific crop Of calves. They have
ridden all over the country frequented
by the cattle during the winter and
found only twenty-fiyeS dead animals,
which is less than one sper cent of the
whole. This is scarcely the loss expected
in summer by casualties etc, SO that the
loss on the Shonkin range this winter on
account of the severe weather has hardly
been anything.-[Benton River Press. s.
The enormous cattle possibilities Of
New Mexico have been known for a long
time throughout the west, and Colorado
capital has taken hold of an immense
stock enterprise in that section Of the
country. Grant and Socorro counties
contain within their limits some fine
ranges which are unocsupied, part Of
these lands lying in the Black Range and
the Mogoilon mountains and running
across the border into Old Mexico. For
the last several months q representative
OF q Denver syndicate, whose name need
not at present be mentioned, has been
down in this country buying land and
taking 1t up under the desert land act.
until the company has obtained $500
acres of range in Old Mexico and 10000
in Socorro and Grant counties. These
ranges are said To be well watered ana
erased. The company, which has been
waiting for the report Of its agent has
not yet formally organized, but win ao
SO shortly as the White Oaks Cattle CA
and the capital stock viii probably IL
placed at So ,0o0, 900 The present iIten.
ton Is to place 25 O(E} hpa9, II Tav 3 IA