The river press., 1884-05-07
STOCK NOTES.

SIOCh NOTES.
The pleurO-pneumonia bill has passe
the senate by an almost unanimou
vote.
Two thousand head of sheep wer
sold recently at Miles City at the rate o
SIS head.
A. J. Holland, of Smith river valley
has sold his band OF sheep to VIM. Will
kins, of the Musselshell, at $5.25 a head
/ Charles Anceney, Gallatin county
breeder ofthorough bred cattle, recently
sold two carloads of bulls to the Con
cord cattle company at Miles City.
| Lambing has commenced in good ear.
nest with many of our wool growers,
| and very successfully thus far, according
to reports received by the RIVER PRESS.
The Swan Land and Cattle company
have now 80, 600 acres of land in Wyo-
ming which they have secured by pur-
chase. Eighteen thousand acres have
been added to their possessions during
the past year.
Some loss has occurred in shipping
young cattle from the east this spring
by turning them into miry corrals
along the eastern division of the road,
when they were weak and tired from
a long ride by train.
Bryan & Mulligan. received /, 500 states
cattle at Miles City1ast week during the
one hundred of them laid down and
died, They were worn out by the
long trip and fell easy victims to the cold
blast.
The cattle men of Smith river met in
regular session last Saturday and estab-
lished rules to govern the roundup for
the ensuing year. George Catlin was
elected captain. and it was agreed that
the roundup should start between the
18th and goth of May.
Mr.. w. G. SWEET returned to the city
yesterday. Mr.. S. is looking up new
range for his large band Of cattle on the
Chestnut, as the latter is overstocked.
He is looking forward to the opening Of
the reservation in the next month or
two with a good deal of interest.
Last year Robt. Coburn and Henry
Seiben drove their cattle to a range on
the east side of the Snowies, and they
find that they wintered well, the cattle
being now in good condition. These
gentlemen expect to have in the neigh
borhood of 1000 steers to market this
year.
This is from the Miner: We have re-
ceived a letter from Mr.. j. J. Feely,
Of Divide, in which he write thus: ~
have calf fourteen months and tWen-
ty days old when she had fine calf
on the 18th inst. Both are doing we'll. y
Can any Of the "coW countries" beat
this record 1 A.4
r. P. Walker, the gentlemanly super
intendent of the Montana Cattle COM
pany returned last week from visit, in
his company's interests, to the different
ranges of the territory. He visited the
Marias and Teton ranges, where he says
the stock are looking fine and are in ex-
cellent condition He reports the crop
of calves ahead of any previous year. In
one band aof700 cattle on the Marias
they have $50 calves.-Sun.
There have been a great many inqui-
ries at the N orthern Pacific land offices
of late regarding grazing lands in Mon
tana. Heretofore the number of ranches
has not been sufficiently large to neces-
state the purchase of lands. The indi-
cations now are, however, that the ter
ritory will soon be overrun, and owners
of large ranches have commenced pur-
chasing railroad lands. One inquiry
received by Land Commissioner Lam
born yesterday was for 1000 acres
Pioneer Press.
John Lepley leaves to-day for his
cattle ranch near Fort Benton, TO make
preparations for the summers round
up. His herd, which now numbers
upwards Of $500 head, wintered well,
and will yield four or five hundred head
Of beeves. He will also brand about
1000 calves. His ranch, which is locat-
ed in the Big Sag, commands immense
range privileges, contains over | 200
acres of fine meadow land, good water
privileges, and is one Of the finest stock
ranches in all Montana. a.--Husbandman,
25th inst.
The cattle shipments over the North
ern Pacific during the current week
will foot up about $4,000 head, mostly
young stock shipped west for breeding
purposes. OF this number 10000 head
have already been arranged for. The
destination and dates of shipment of
these are: Monday, A. M. Johnson, 400
head from Fargo to Miles City Tues
day, w. S. Smoot, ], 500 head from Min
nesota Transfer to Miles City Wednes-
day, Millard Cattle company, $500 head
from Minnesota transfer to Billings
George @. Calkins, 1900 head to Miles
City; Thursday, E. S. Newman, eight
car loads of bulls to Miles City III. B.
Wadsworth, 1900 head to Little Mis-
souri, the Fayette Live Stock company
/ 500 head to Glendive and Miles City.
Pioneer Press, 29th ult.
Cattle vs. Horses.
We have often wondered why there
is such large number of bovine breed
ers and SO few of the equine, when the