Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-06


houses along the railroad lines. In
stead of simply a meat house, shall
add a cold storage room for butter.
eggs, fruits, etc.
SHIPMENTS BY LAKE.
AT Duluth continued the Mar
gus, II shall have my ice houses and
another large warehouse from which
| shall ship beef by boats in refriger
ators to Milwaukee, Chicago. Detroit.
Cleveland, Buffalo, and other lake
points. AT Chicago can be found
railroads to the south, and at Buffalo
the steamers will make connections
with the railroads to the seaboard for
the export trade.
The Marquis fully believes that
dressed beef can be shipped from the
ranches directly to the market at a
| greater profit to the ranchmen and the
! packers than 10 send it on the hoof by
cars, and upon this theory he has
! based his Investments.
AT Brainerd he continued. will
be the next storehouse. and others
will be established at Fargo. Grand
Forks, Winnipeg, Jamestown, and
Bismarck. From the latter point the
| Missouri River trade will be supplied
and refrigerators ave already been
! placed upon the steamers which will
carry dressed beef topoints above and
below on the river There will be am
other storehouse at Mandan, and
slaughter houses as well as store
houses at Medora, Miles City, Bill
ings, and Helena. All these will be
completed and IN working order by
the LIST OF June. On the western
division there will be slaughter and
sorehouses at Spokane Falls, at tie
Dalles, and at Portland and Seattle.
These will be completed by Octo
Der.
4" Is al your beef to come from Mon
tanaW
mo, we VIII have corn fed beef as
we'll as Montana cattle, and the form
er will be brought from Chicago to
st. Paul and Duluth, and from Kan
saS City TO Bismarck. What | want
to do is 10 establish sort of exchange,
furnishing Chicago and Kansas City
with Montana beef in season, and
buying corn-fed beef ut those points
when it is better to do so. In certain
seasons we have a surplus in Mon
tana, aud then we have scarcity |
shall ship both ways TO supply the de-
mand, the trade will be about equally
divided the year through We shall
have TO import beef for six months
and export the bal ance of the year"
HOW HE CAME TO 10 IT.
"How did you happen to 90 into
this sort of business2n
II wanted something to do, an
swered the Marquis.
"Aud you consider it profitablen
eyes, | think there is great deal
of money in the business, and it will
continue TO grow more profitable in
the future.
"Who are interested with your
II have no partners. | am alonein
the enterprise
You have had some trouble out
West2'
Eyes, when | FIRST went TO Dakota
ia A pril, in 1888, had a great deal of
trouble and they tried TO drive me
out. believe men were hired to shoot
me, but it is all over now and | don't
care TO talk about it.
"Will you make Dakota your
home2"
~ shall have a residence al Mcdora,
and another at st. Paul but consid.
err myself a permanent resident Of Da-
kota.
Does the madame likeiteut there9n
''The madamel Oh, yes She likes
ii even better than | do. she hNnts
! with me and is better shot than |
am
And so the people from that coun-
try say; Mime De Mores, who, as !
have said is the daughter of Baron
Won Hoffman, spends weeks at a time
in the saddle with hcr husband, camp
ing out on the prairie, sleeping IN the
open air, cooking the game that is
brought down by her own rife
She says that no one who has not
had the experience can real
ize how delightful it is to live in the
open air and breathe an atmosphere
no one else has ever breathed before
Although belle in New York society
she does not want to go back there
there but prefers ranch life in Dako-
ia.
THE MEXICAN PENSION BILL.
over the consideration of which the
house fought all night, and which
will come up for debate and action as
soon as the pending appropriation
bill is out of the way, is one Of the
worst Jobs that was ever presented TO
congress It's advocated chiefly by
southern men who think that willis
hundreds Of millions Of dollars Of pub
lie money is being distributed in the
north to soldiers of the late rebellion,
la proportionate amount ought to be
distributed in the southern states. So
they propose to pay S. a month to any
man who served thirty days in the
Mexican or any of the Indian wars
and the same amount TO the widows Of
all those who served thirty days and
have since died
Playing II on the Plumber