The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-11-26
STOCK NOTES.

Messrs. Peck & Lacy recently sold to
}. r. Lee Of Sand Coulee an outfit of
thoroughbred rams.
There is quite a boom in the Angora
goat business in Texas. The papers all
over the states are discussing the pros
poets of the enterprise.
The trial Of John Edmonson for horse
stealing has commenced IN Helena.
Edmonson formerly lived in this coun-
ty, and last winter hauled wood to this
city from Highwood.
A Rawlins exchange says hat the
Hurlbut-Conrad company, Hardin,
Campbell & Co., and the Grinnell outfit
are gathering all their bulls off the range
this fall, with the intention of feeding
them in their pastures this winter.
.'l domestic animals should learn to
swim. Il steamer from Ireland 10 Loitn,
Scotland, struck a rock and had to
throw overheard three thousand sheep
and some ponies. All but one OF the
ponies and twenty-five hundred OF the
sheep swan ashore.
The. New York and Boston Cattle
company has been incorporated with
a capital stock of six million dollars,
with Benjamin F. Butler, of Boston,
heading the directory Of the company.
They will operate in Kansas, Colorado,
Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wy
oming.
Advices from Chicago, date of No
yember 18th, state that there are "a, OOO
head of cattle unsold. Prices are firm
sales of choice beef cattle, average
,,a;rh+ Of I 400 Mounds y cylota6 sc
high as $3.50. Sales are reported of Ne
braska sheep, weight rs pounds, at 81. 20;
| choice, from So. so to 1915.
The Buenos Ayres Standard says the
| Saladeros of Uruguay have slaughtered
| about 100000 head of cattle up to the
end of June. This means $16, 00O. 900 to
| the people on that item alone. 10 this
| has to be added half a million hides OF
animals slaughtered for consumption,
and the wool and produce of about 15,-
900, 600 sheep; all this in the hands OF
| about SOC, 900 people.
Mr.. Stems, of the firm Of Stems &
| Arlington, who have invested largely
in sheep in this section, is expected in
the city tomorrow. Since he concluded
his purchases Mr.. Arlington has been
busily engaged in preparing to winter
his 5000 sheep and he goes about il
like an old hand at the business. II
will not be long until the firm of Stems
& Arlington will have the modelsheeI
ranch of Montana.
"A cane made entirely of horns O
cattle was presented to Major RainWa
ter, of st. Louis, chairman of the exec
utive committee Of the national conven'
ton Of cattlemen that met recently il
st. Louis. He was also given a chail
the frame Of which was composed o
the horns of Texas cattle, and he occu
pied it on the platform. A cattlemar
from the far west engaged the best Don
at the Southern for S335 a day during thu
convention.
The two great cattle kings of the Pa
cific coast, Miller and Lux, are said tt
have been poor men twenty years ago
Their stock of cattle numbers abou
8 1000 head, and they have 115, 900 heat
of sheep, killing about 5000 head every
month. THY own an irrigating cana
which is valued at 81. 600, 900. and theil
800 miles of fences are invaluable pos
sessions. Eli California their INLAND
property amounts to 500. 900 acres, ii
Nebraska % 1000 acres, and they hay,
: besides I50, 900 acres of alfalfa grass.