The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-07-30
STOCK NOTES.

D. y. Hogan expects to move his cat
tie from the South Fork range this
summer.
The Swan Land and cattle company
have Just purchased 45O, 900 acres Of land
from the Union Pacific railroad COM
pany.
There are quite a number of strangers
in the city who are looking forward to
cattle investments in northern Montana
and we will probably soon be able to re-
port some purchases.
During the five months ended with
May 31st there were landed at Baltimore
LOG cattle from foreign countries. OF
these 293 were Aberdeen-Angus, 1876
were Galloways, 523 Herefords, 81 Short
horns, Sussex, and Ii were Jerseys.
The Benton & st. Louis Cattle COM
pany did not market their beeves last
wear, and they will have this season
about l 200 four and five year old steers
to ship. They are even now in prime
condition and are pretty sure to bring
fancy prices for range cattle.
Colorado people say they last year sent
a million and a quarter dollars east to
''pay for oleomargarine and vile grease,
called butter.' They propose to expend
this sum chiefly ut home this year for
genuine butter. It is about time that
Montana people came to the same con-
clusion.
Says the Caldwell (Kas.) Journal:
Shippers of light. habitat grass cattle
Louis market last week. They should
u ~ I,non loft on thnir nativA hath q
few weeks longer, and the habitat"
charges would not have been preferred
against their bank account.
The bringing in of a bunch of 120 head
of spring calves from Ohio by rail, this
week, is a new departure. The little
jokers stood the ride well and are now
filling up on grass at Wrighter's ranch,
near Sherman. A little ground feed
will have to be used the coming winter,
most likely, but the youngsters, with
care, will come out strong yearlings in
the spring.-NorthWestern Live Stock
Journal
Richard Gray, representing the North
ern Pacific Refrigerating company (the
DeMores company and manager of the
company's business and market house
in Helena, has just purchased of Louis
Marcut, Of Sun river, $50 of as fine grass
fed beeves as can be shown anywhere.
He paid $50 per head for them, or 81, 500
for the lot. These steers are intended
for supplying the company's Helena
market acknowledgements.
Gen. George B. Mcclellan, Brayton
Ives, John B. Barron, Oliver Summer
Teal, E. Harrison Stanford, A. A. Sum-
mer, Thomas Lyons, John }. McCook,
George B. Post, and others have united
in a company to operate n Of the
largest cattle ranches Of the world. 1t is
in Grant county, New Mexico, and is
about forty miles east to west and sixty
miles north to south, comprising about
1900, 900 acres Of grazing land. There
are now some sixteen thousand head OF
cattle on the range, and it is Intended
to increase the herds to eighty thousand
cattle.
The Winnipeg Sun interviewed Mr..
/. q. Baker some time ago and elected
from him this opinion Of cattle raising
in the North West territory: II think
it is to be the great industry of the coun-
try, and it is developing rapidly now.
Why you can take the great sweep of
country clean down from the Saskatche-
wan to the Rio Grande and you have
over a thousand miles in length OF mag
nificent grazing country. Down in
Texas the cattle grow small, IN Colorado
a trife larger, in Wyoming larger still,
in Montana still larger, while in the
Canadian northwest you can raise the
finest cattle to be had on the North
American continent. I figured the mat
ter up once and found that it costs just
one dollar a year to take care of cattle
out on the western prairie. It is bound
to pay"
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