The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-10-18

domestic cattle. The rich, nutritious buff
falo grasses which abound everywhere have
been found well suited for the purpose.
Only the want of capital at the start imped-
ed the raising of cattle for beef on a large
scale. In Colorado, Wyoming and Mon
tana this was particularly true up to very
few years ago. The money to develop the
industry came from without-from New
York and Philadelphia and from England
and Continental Europe. Nearly all the
capital invested in herds in Wyoming and
Montana has been so obtained Many of
the ranches here in the Yellowstone Val
ley, on Powder, Tongue, Rosebud, Mizpah,
and other rivers, are owned directly by
English parties who have never yet set
foot on American SOIL The English seem
to have weakness for investing capital in
beef ranches out West, as is evidenced by
the large number of them owned by En-
glishmen in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana,
and the Northwest Territory. Among the
most extensive cattle, horse and mule rails
ers in the Northwest are Sir Moreton Frew-
en- and his brother, Herbert J. Frewen,
nephews of Lord Dufferin, late Governor
General of Canada. The Frewens are en-
gagged in this enterprise in both Wyoming
and Montana. They were the first white
men to put cattle on Powder river, in 1878.
They are also the instruments through
which English capital finds its way from
the old country into the new Northwest.
They control altogether about pa, 0G0 head
of cattle for outsiders who have never been
on this side of the Atlantic, besides cattle,
horse ard mule ranch of their own, situat-
ed on Upper Powder river, in Montana.
The Duke of Manchester's herd, number
ing somewhere in the neighborhood of co.
600 head, is in the hands of the Frewens,
and is scattered over Northern Wyoming
and Southern Montana, on the headwaters
of Tongue, Powder and Mizpah rivers.
Another young Englishman named Barber
is associated with the Frewen Brothers in
their horse and mule ranch about 12O miles
south of here. To the Times correspond
ent Mr. Barber recently gave some facts as
to the work they are engaged in. In the
breeding Of mules they are using jacks
and $50 mares, selected stock, all of which
were brought up from Kentucky about two
and a half years ago. The business is
merely on an experimental basis yet, and
if it should turn out well more capital will
be invested for the purchase of additional
stock and the ranges increased. Mr. Bar
Der has about $50 fne-looking mule colts
this season. Some of last years colts, al
though very frisky and lively, are looking
well, and are the same height as the jacks
-15 hands. Their own cattle ranch and
range are close by, and contain 10000
head of fine fat, healthy beeves, which
Craze along the Upper Powder river
The Frewens, being Englishmen, are ma
turally anxious to further English interest
as much as possible in this country, and to
that end have been working industriously
for some time past in perfecting.a scheme
by which not only their own but also
the other immense herds of English cattle
grazing on the public domain in this coun-
try can be be sent direct to England with
out troubling the United States railways
in the matter of transportation. Negotia-
tons have been pending for some time
with Mr.. f. r. Lingham, the greatest
cattle shipper in Canada, having in view
the driving Of the cattle north from Colo
RADIO, Wyoming Montana and Idaho to
Maple creek, Il station on the Canadian
Pacific Railroad just across the line, whence
they could be transported by that great
northern trauscontinental railway to Duluth
and thence by the way of the lakes to
Montreal and England. Sir NJ breton
Frcwen has been in England for some
months past petitioning the British Gov
ernment for leave to Import their cattle
through the Canadian possessions without
Strengthening at the port Of entry. Circu-
lars outlining the plan have been generous
ly distributed among the cattlemen in this
part of the United States, promising an ex
portation of not less than 1000 900 head
ofcattle annually if our Western Territories
can supply the beasts. Many prominent
cattlemen of this district look upon the
scheme with suspicion, and predict an in
glorious failure should the thing be at
tempted. They say the idea is not practi-
cable as applied to range cattle, which are
so wild that they would lose flesh in the
long journey to such an amount as to leave
little or no profit in the business.
The Marquis de Mores is another great
cattle king of this region, and besides hav-
ing Il large amount of capital ready at hand
to invest in ranches, cattle, sheep or horses,
as the fancy strikes him, is.the possessor of
an unusual amount of nerve, good sense,
and pluck to back him up in whatever he
undertakes to do. He is the son-in-law of
Baron Won Hoffman, who is now in Miles
City making arrangements for the building
Of slaughter and cold storage houses here.
The Marquis is not more than 20 years of
age, and first landed ON our shores in
August, 1882, in the city of New York.
Before long he became attracted by the
stories of the new country along the North
ern Pacific Railroad and came out to in
spect for himself. The prospect pleased
him, and he bought six square miles of land
where the Northern Pacific crosses the
Little Missouri river. Here he laid the
foundation of city. The new metropolis
was pitched in the very worst spot on the
North American continent-so many wise
men said-in the midst of bad lands and
extinct volcanoes; country always Stunned
by the red man, and said, by people who
knew all about it, to be unfit for agricul-
ture, grazing or anything else. Notwith-
standing the warnings and predictions of
disaster which were gratuitously poured in
from all sides for his benefit, the Marquis
went right on with the work he had mapped
out. On April l, 1888, he pitched tent
on the banks of the Little Muddy, which
was the commencement of building opera
tions. He broke bottle of wine over the
canvas house and iron tent pins that held
it in place, and christened the embryo city
Medora in honor of his wife. Herds of
cattle and fiocks of sheep were purchased,
and cowboys were employed to mind them
The Marquis turned his animals loose
among the bad lands to pick up living
as best they could, sent for his wife to come
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