The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-10

from a trip to Chicago last week. he
had good luck, having sold his beeves
at $40. the top price for range steers.
He will spend about ten days in the
territory and will then start on a visit
to the Worlds exposition.-Husband-
man.
VIM. Ulm, of Sun River. recently
brought from Toronto, Canada, twenty
one head of thoroughbred horses, six
teen of them being stallion colts. Mr..
Ulm has a large band of horses. and
evidently intends to breed them up to a
good standard, which is now the only
way to make the horse business a sue
cess in this country.
The Texas stockman says it is a mys-
terry toa Texan how sheep can be win
tered on the range in Montana. It is
not a mystery to most Texans that cattle
driven from their state to Montana and
wintered here are worth several dollars
more a head, and sheep will usually
thrive where cattle do.
T.. J. Whitney, our newly elected
commissioner, has recently traded a
large portion Of his city property for
sheep and will spend the major portion
of his time looking after this interest.
He has now 4 500 head Of sheep located
on Grow creek and Powder river where
+. I'll. Grimmet is foreman.-Yellow-
stone Journal.
Messrs Robinson It Burleigh, of Phil
brook, have recently bought 12o head of
fine cattle from S. S. Hobson, of the
Judith We did not learn the price
paid. The herd consists Of PoIled-
Angus and Short-horn bulls, heifers
and cows-as pretty a lot of cattle as is
owned by any firm in eastern Montana.
-Husbandman.
It is not intended that the promotion
of Governor Crosby to the office of first
assistant postmaster-general shall in any
way affect his interests as a breeder in
this territory. The Diamond Spring
breeding farm will be carried on in the
usual manner. A number of fine rum
ners and trotters are to be added to the
already very complete herd.
AS a means of coming towards the
views Of the harness and leather men,
stockmen could make it a practice to
brand cattle on one side only. If a
general rule of this kind could be es-
tablished or favored it would be no
impeachment to range work. and if an
arbitrary rule it would work to adyan-
tage. The left side used to be consider
ed the pa1...,eeraide in branding,-Texas
Live Stock Journal:
The track and road horses offered for
sale at Dan Mace's livery stable, In New
York, on the 4th inst, went for low
prices. The fifteen nurses sold brought
5 5,805. Hawk, g bay gelding 9 years
old, sired by Geo. Wilkes, and said to
trot in 2::26, brought the highest price,
S61o. A black gelding, s years old, sired
in Kentucky, and said to trot in 2:20,
was knocked down at $3.50. Mace said
he had refused $4,000 for this horse at a
private sale.
Mr. a. w. Paul left Three Forks
recently with two carloads Of horses for
an eastern market. At Hamilton an
investigation that eighteen head in one
car had been smothered and trampled
to death. This is a severe loss to Mr..
Pail, which he claims is entirely the
fault of the railroad employees, who re-
fused to stop the train and sidetrack the
car at Three Forks, where he first dis
covered that some of the horses had
fallen.
Montana was represented at the St.
Louis convention by forty-six delegates
from the two associations. Upon their
arrival in that city they at once united
their forces, elected Granville Stuart |
chairman and r. B. Harrison secretary, |
and worked throughout the session as
one body. Mr.. Harrison, at his own ex-
peaso5, rrr-oeured q ,rs:arlor at the Southern !
hotel for consultation purposes, and af |
ter adjournment the delegates presented
their obliging secretary with a handsome
marble clock.
The forthcoming iBsta of the Mohtana
Wool Grower i'll be d Very interesting !
publication. Among other things it
will contain an exhaustive article on
the best manner Of caring for sheep in
the winter mof,ttshs, containing many