The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-08-14

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summer Yague little paragraphs began
to bs seen III the Bismarck and other
Western papers about d hand some young
Frenchman who was buying vast acreages
Of grazing land ont on the Little Missouri
riyer, and offering ii Quixotic way
to fgrnish everybody who came along q
hundred sheep to keep ons shares yery-
body thought anoth Count Josnnes had
arisen and wand out here. took
the best part 81 d year. to con nyince people
that De- Aores was d sane man With
money and purpose. This now needs mo
argument to pro Tie young French
min snllSs laid the fonn ation Of . fortune
which u rival that of offman
himself At 1rst sss hi intent ID
simply Iaiise. .cattl He than discovered
that there Was no Systematic shipments
Of Montana Sbed to tie Eastern ma markets.
Hotels in Fargo and Bismarck, with the
fine young Montana cattle right at their
doors, were paying 35 or 40 cents a pound
for Chicago steaks. The reason of this
absurdity was that no one could buy cat
tie in either Of those towns Id less than
car load lots. Montana steers Wereshipped
ON to Chicago, were slaughtered and
the dressed meat shipp ped back De Morea
decided to remedy this BY estab ablishing
|abattoirs along the North Pacific raiI4
roads at points where stocaanen could
dive their cattle In easily from The
nehes. 70 complete the system be
would erect refrigerating storehouses In
every town where the beef demand war
ranted it. With refrigerattng ears ply
ling between slaughter houses and dis
tributing points fresh meat could be
furnished customers regularly at prices
50 per cent. lower than the old way.
De Mores has carried out this plain.
He owns q dozen ranches, and has built
abattoirs at Medora, Billings, Miles City
and Helena. These houses are III full
operation. Refrigerators have been
built at st. Paul, Duluth and Fargo, and
Others are being put up at Granger,
Mandan and Winnipeg I.
incidentally to the scheme the pretty
little town Of Medora has been built up
lat the Northern Pacific crossing Of tile
Little Missouri. "a freight line to the
Black Hills has been estab ablished, which
is always asource Of rapid growth in thest
frontier trading posts. II;
Medora was named after. the wife el
De AeTes, Medora hoffman, who is til,
4 namesake Of her aunt, the famousl,
beautiful Medora Grimes. Her memoir
i is freshened by the "reminiscences Of til,
I late Sam Ward, who won her for hi
Z second wife when she was already til
j betrothed Of a rich young ETenchma1
The Marquise de Mores delights in sha1
4 ing the.Wild life Of her husband. In 81
4 Paul sshezfs the most richly and taste
fully dressed woman you will see. Ol
1.-The plains she rides and shoots fault
lessly. Galloping over the prairie, Al
sfeagIes plume in her hat and rifle slun,
from her saddle, she is the picture Of !,
wild beauty. De Mores on the. frontie
dresses in fringed buckskin shirts, to]
boots and cowboy lat. In st. Paul b
is polished French gentleman, open
hearted, witty, hospitable. The Mar
quise has an income of $4,000 q yea
from fortune which has been secure,
by her father beyond all. possibility o
loss. De Mores has Is, 900 acres of farm
ing lands along the Northern Pacific, be
sides vast estates-in France and ITALY
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