The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-07-23
STOCK NOTES.

The horse thieves must go.
Col. Leaning received three head OF
Jersey cattle on the Bachelor.
The wool clip of the Bitter Root val
ley this year amounts to 100000 pounds.
Reed & Burmeister of Ulidia sold their
wool at Helena last Tuesday for III cents
a pound. They had 1000 pounds.
Chas. Carthroyer says that a man who
can't stick on to a Glassman saddle
without a bucking strap can't ride.
Steve Spitzley has sold his herd of
cattle on the Shonkin to parties from
the north. The price is not learned.
Con. Kohrs told a Miles City Journal
reporter that he now has about 28, 900
head of cattle on the Montana ranges.
J. G. Adams, one Of the prominent
stockmen Of Sun River, says the calf
crop on that range will show up pretty
we'll after all.
There will be several drives of mutton
sheep made to the Canadian Pacific
RAILROAD this fall for shipment to the
eastern market.
The first shipment of cattle east from
Miles City was made last Wednesday
by E. H. Cowles, and consisted of a train
load Of twenty-five cars.
7 Ulm & Kilburn, wool growers of Sun
river, will move their sheep this season
to Mcdonald creek, a tributary of the
Musselshell, and in the Fort Maginnis
country.
Downs & Allen, formerly Of Sun Riv-
CT, have brought 5000 head of cat
tie from Idaho to this territory and
placed them on the Porcupine, north of
the Yellowstone.
VIM. Courtenay sold 1000 sheep yes
terday at a good, fair price. Signs seem
to point toward a large demand for sheep
in this section this season. He also sold
$50 head of eastern t~wo-year-old cattle
at S29 per head.-Miles City Journal.
The prices of beef cattle at Chicago
hold up we'll this year and are now a
quarter of a CEN better than at this time
last year. This will encourage our cattle
kings to ship their beeves east instead of
selling them on the range.
The Shonkin Stock association has
delegated Major Davenport, Of Daven-
port, Fay q Co., owners of the largest
herd ON hat range, to represent the as
ISOLATION at the forthcoming stock con-
vention at Helena on the 18th inst.
r.. P. Walker of the Montana Cattle
company has taken a trip over the
Canadian Pacific railroad to see what
accommodations they have for the hand
ling of stock. The contract just made
with Mr.. Belcher is evidence that he is
fully satisfied.
Our old-time friend, William Cress-
well, of Bloomington, I'll, has purchased
a fine bunch Of 200 yearling heifers
from Doc Day, out of his Cimarron river
herd, paying SCI a head. He will move
them to a range somewhere in Montana
Live Stock Journal.
The Shonkin association has purchas-
ed IS of the 100 head of young bulls
they intend to put on the range this
They are Montana bred land
hence a~cclimated), high grade short
horn and Hereford animals, and in a
short time the remaining thirty-fve of
the same character will be secured.
J. G. Miles, sheep commissioner for
Bow county, publishes a notice
IN the Inter Mountain to the effect that
parties violating the scab law will be
prosecuted as therein described. The
commissioners in the other counties
should follow Mr.. Miles good example.
One1of the first large herds OF trail cat
tie received here this season crossed
Tongue river last week thirteen miles
south of the city on the way to the north
range. It numbers $500
head of steers and is for the beef ranch
# Scott, Lang & Co.-Yellowstone5
a San Antonio special Of the 18th
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