The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-10-02
THE WISER INDUSTRY.
Some OF the INNOVATIONS OF the A1essrs.
VVfaer

Wiser.
On Friday morning last Harlow g.
Wiser returned to this city from trip TO
the Indian Territory with his father, the
Hon. ]. p. Wiser, of Prescott Ontario.
While in the territory the Messrs. Wiser
purchased from Messrs. Gregory, Eldred1
s. Co. what is known as the (bar "M'')
ranch, which is one Of the best, II not
the best ranch to be found in the whole
Union. II Is beautifully located Just
south of the Cimarron river, forty miles
south of KiOWa, the present terminus of
the Southern Kansas railroad, in the
Cherokee nation. The ranch contains
(150,00O one hundred and fifty Thousand
acres of land entirely surrounded by q
four barbed wire fence, which Incloses
the greatest variety and the best grasses
to be found in the land. There is 9
world of water on the ranch, It
being impossible to go greater distance
than three-quarters of mile from one
stream 70 another. Add to this a coun-
try that is much broken, and where there
are canyons almost boundless and whose
sides are perpendicular, where the cat
tie may escape all inclemencies Of wealth
or, and where there is an almost unlim-
tied supply of walnut, oak and cedar
timber, to say nothing of the cotton
woods, and one has what Andy Snider,
our greatest western stockman calls, "a
perfect cow heaven" This ranch is to
be stocked with ten thousand cattle
which Mr.. Wiser and his son Harlow
are TO receive the early part of next
month.
The Wisers have also purchased two
thousand head of steers, which will
be fed on their Lyon county
ranch this winter and erased next
summer. The two ranches will
be under the management of Harlow
Wiser who will run the two IN connec-
ton with each other, producing the
steers on the Territory ranch and feed
ing and finishing them on the Kansas
ranch II G. Wiser received q
car load of eleven horses last
week from his fathers stock
farm at Prescott, Ontario, Canada, known
as the ''Rysdyk Stock Farm" which has
been the home of many fast one. Il
is there that RysdVk, the sire of Cling
stone, with a record of 2:14, has been
tor the past ten years. Mr.. Wiser, know.
ing and seeing the want long felt by
all in this section for 6
good stock horse, has gone
to the expense and trouble of bringing
here the inbred HamIltonian stallion
Bellewood, with a record of 2:34 made
when he was but four years old. Thi.
horse is one of the greatest grandsons Of
RYsdick's HamiltonIan. HIS dam
Vanity FAIR, is one of the most noted
brood mares of the country, being thC
dam of Convoy, the greatest two-milt
trotter OF his day and now owned by
Robert Bonner, OF New York, who paiC
long price for him. This is undoubt
edlV the best bred stallion in the west
and the lovers of good stock haYe grea
reason to congratulate themselves upoI
having so fine a horse within ther
reach. Bellewood is a mahogany bal
horse, foaled 1885, 10 hands 215 inche
high, four white feet and pasterns, star il
forehead and snip on nose. He was bret
by A. j. Alexander, WOODBURY., Ken
lucky. Mr.. Wiser also has the follow
ing HambletonIan and Mamburn broot
mares brought here for stock purposes
now in foal to RysdYk, recently sold t
w. j. Gordon, of Cleveland, Ohio, 70
the sum of $4,000: Miss Canads
(registcred) granddaughter of Membrin
Chief, dam, Minnie Pritchard; Mimi
Day, standard bred Hambletonia
mare; Victoria. standard bred, also
granddaughter of Msmbrino Chic
her sire being the celebrated Peck
Idol, dam Lady Patchen, standard; tw
yearlings, also grandaughters of Ryl
dYks Hambletonlsn and standar
bred.
Mr.. Wiser also calls attention to hi
draft stations and mares that were in
ported at the same time from Prescott
Ontario, viz: The black Clyde stallion
Magyar, sired by the imported stallion
Lock Magyar, his dam being one of IL
celebrated Sir William Wallace Mare
This Is one of the best formed Clyde
dales in the west, and his produce wi
have plenty of size and bone, besid
good form and action and good dIspos
: ton. Lock Magyar IS now three yea
! old, coal black in color, standing abo
!. sixteen hands high and weighs abo
] 400 pounds.
+ Mr.. Wiser has also imported four Fl
Clydesdale mares, which he will ket
for breeding purposes on his Lyon cou
J. tY ranch.
Mr.. Wiser intends keeping the abo
4 stock on his Lyon county farm, in t
n north part of the county.