The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-07-17


there will be my mistake made tbs seass
son. Eat cattle, 81 the grade this county M
turns out, always command top prices: q
they are but half tat they ID inyariabiesI
sell below their value BaIber Eos n
dex. b "
4 The ST. James oftt lines enfertains
among its numerons guests men vim
represent great wealth III boyines Is ven
as III mines iii this new West nov vi Il
days mans personal appearances donotg
BY any means Indicate his financial statns
During ths last few daysof ths week .fasts3
passed there were congregatted af fllei
hotel q large number 0tt eminent safflsE
growers from, our own ii State, ffrpm Texas
and New Mexico, whose combined wealth
would represent mil Hons. These cattle
men asa rule are quite imp entions iii
their personal ppsaranees There Is nos
glitter Of diamonds abont them, no asten-sI
tations Az a rule they ne plain, practi2
cal, every day, fellows who make but Hill
tie display of their worldly wealth
They buy and seil cattle by tie TENS of
thousands as quickly as would an eastern
farmer asingle brute. Twenty afttys and.
even an hundred thons sand Is nD gigantic
transaction with many 81 those who CONS
and go st the st. James. Wealth makes
less display ia day than il did twenty
years ago. The man with sioneTed hat
and faded coat not infreduently has has the
longest bank account. BE with glitters'
ing Diamonds and the breast pIato fo6s
often is the shoddy. These thoughts were
on meeting tenor d dozen rep
TesentatiFe cattIemen inS the rotunda ofi
the hotel the other day. There Was MI
Wilkes, Of the London Company, he who
lately purchased the Wilson cattle and
lands on the Republican for d sun of
money greater than the worth of an the
cattle Of Colorado twenty years ago. MI;
Wilkes was much palmer dressed man
than the Toustab out who tumbIed the.
trunk In and ont the hotel door. There
was Mr.. Pryor, the largest buyer Of cat.
tie the present year in Texas, ana he'
whose Al, 900 head OF cattle now tramp;
the great trail leading up from the Lone
Star state. he would easily be mistaken
for q country merchant or moderate
farmer. The stout man with smiling
lace, whom everybody salntes, IS Billy
Wilson, the cowboy but yesterday, the;
cattle king today. Colossal fortune hasS
not spoiled him. He IS the same ioyiaI
fellow; be was at the roundup. The
plainly dressed man who Just remarked
to Mr.. Pryor, I'll taks 1--WE thousand
head It you'll shave the price triie,n / is.
Mr.. B. b Metcalf whose word in the cat-.
tie markets is as good Rs Jay Gould,s on
Wall streat. These stouter gentlemen on
the outer rim Of the circle are MessTs.
Grammar and Binkleman, the latter gen.
tleman probably owning more ox-kind
than any other man III America. That
tall gentleman with well brushed mt
and dude like pants, Is Captain Anderson.
OF the Coupalin ranch, In Colfax. ne
will wear different attire at the round.up.
That stontest Of them ali, that man who
turns the scale beam at $50 pounds, ~
oirdupois, is Mr. George ". Thompson, ofi
Trinidad. His cattle crop the grasses on
q thousand hills, and his sheep are past
counting. As shrinkage Of one cent o,l;
beef might affect Thompson twenty thou
sand dollars, The yOnI1p Hnrir + suifIy