Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-31
water we're SO plentiful as they are just

water were SO plentiful as they arc just
now.
Randolph Echo: John E. Hillstrom
is.said to be the owner of three-year
old heifer that has given birth to three
healthy calves within eleven months.
| K. H. Howard, of Rawlins county, has
Just shipped 10000 pounds of wool. The
shearing of 4 600 sheep in Mcpherson
county was finished last week.
Onaga Journal: During the thunder
storm of q few days ago E. G. Fyetchison
lost valuable team of horses by being
struck by lightning. He had turned
them on the prairie at the close of the
DAYS work, and after wandering near to
the field of ii. Hoover and while near
together, they were simultaneously
killed.
Dodge City Globe: Smith & Elliott,
who are on this market with about H.
600 head of mixed cattle, are separating
out of their herd all two year-old steer
cattle and over, which will number 4, 900
| head or more, and take them to their
range on O'Fallon creek in Custer coun-
ty, Montana, where they located 5000
head of steer cattle last year.
Clay Center Times: Fat hogs are COM
ing into market every day in greater
numbers than usual. Some of our buy
ers who are getting six cent hogs on
early contracts are losing money, bnt
their grit is good and they continue to
receive and pay for them with as good
grace as though they were getting rich
at it.
| Mcpherson Freeman: Jim Underwood
has 1877 head of fat cattle which will av
erage 1900 pounds each. For 10 of
| these he was offered the other day $500
per hundred weight, or the snug sum of
$13. 260. Not a very small sum to offer
one man for cattle, in a county which
has never claimed any great prominence
in cattle raising.
Manhattan Republic: Gov. Green fur
nishes booming item this week for the
Jersey Red hogs. Monday he shipped
one which weighed 6l0 pounds. It was
15 months old, but as he cut it's feed
down two months ago the pig weighed
as much at Is months as when it was
sold. This animal was the largest for
its age Of any pig on record. It was finely
proportional and would have made a
monstrous hog had it been kept year
longer.
Dodge City Coa0boy: The Dodge City
cattle market has braced up perceptibly
within the past week and sellers are
stitfening up in prices. The number of
buyers is increasing and at least $4,000
4 head of cattle are in demand now. One
and tWo-year. old heifers and steers are
the most sought after. Southern Texas
| cattle, ones and twos are holding at $16
and 500; nOrthWesterns Texans, $18 and
! $22. There will be no weakening in
! these figures; on the contrary they are
liable to advance. Every hoOf brought
to the Dodge City market this year will
find buyer. Reconstruction on the
part of buyers, in anticipation of decline
in prices, will be to their disadvantage.
The demand for cattle is in excess of the
supply. No matter how stringent money
matters are in the East, the ranches of
the grazing regions have got to be stocked
and eastern people have got to have beef
Dodge City Globe: The cattle and
horse market is gradually advancing and
Texas cattle and stock horses are bring
ing better figures than they did thirty
days ago. She cattle are in demand, with
very small number offered. Large
sales of one and two year old steers
have been made in the past few days at
good round figures, yearlings selling at
from $l6 to $l7 and tWo-year olds at SIS
and $50. A few buyers have been hold
ing off with the expectation that prices
would decline, and must now pay higher
prices. The depression in the money
market is virtually at an end, and mon.
ey is quite free. New buyers are arriv-
ing daily and large amounts of money
are constantly changing hands. Out Of
the 15,0 600 horses that have been brought
to this market, not over 1000 are left
about 1900 having been sold. Saddle
horses are bringing from$5O to $50 and
stock horses from $27 to $35.