The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-07-30
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quotations in the Chicago market:
Extra prime beeves. ....-....$5.s0 g, 5.95.
Choice to fancy shipping. $40 q 5.75
Good to choice shipping, 1915 q 5.45'
Common to good shipping. .$4.55 q $40.
Poor to medium steers, . ...$42O q 4.7O.
Fair to choice cows. =. g. $3.50 a $50.
Inferior to medium cows:.. $1.5O q 2.4O.
Poor to choice bulls. .$2.4O q $50.
stockers, $50 to 500 lbs, :. $3.50 q $40.
Feeders, s75 to !, ,15o lbs. $3.50 q 4.3O.
Grass-fel Texans.- -........$ @>4O0.
Corn-fed Texans. p. p. .... $50 q 500.
Slop-fed cattle $3.50 q 5.85.
Milch cows,4P head, :: $1,000 @ 5000.
We have noticed several articles in
our exchanges relative to the attacks Of
the "heel fly" Although the existence
of such fly seems to be credited by a
number of cattlemen, we very much
doubt its existence. We have never yet
seen a responsible cowman who asserted
that he had seen a "heel fly" aud that
the peculiar antics cut by cows at times
is due to the attacks Of the fly. The
true explanation in all probability, is
that the peculiar actions are caused by
the working out Of grubs on the animal
for the results are exactly similar
from this cause in districts where "heel
flies" are never mentioned. +
B. F. Reynolds arrived from Texas
Monday and will make his headquarters
at Medora for a time. He has forty-five
hundred Texas cattle on the trail, now
in the neighborhood Of Rapid City.
Thirteen hundred of these cattle will be
sold and the rest will probably be grazed
in this vicinity. Mr.. Reynolds cattle
being from northern Texas, he had nc
difficulty in driving, from the quaran.
tine laws. He reports the feeling be.
tween northern and southern Texas COW.
men as being far more bitter than that
between the former and northwestern
cattlemen. He does not consider that
there ever will be permanent stop pu1
to driving by trail. The discovery ol
the causes and cure of Texas fever will
again send thousands of cattle from
Texas to the north. % s-s ~
The most interesting thing Of late tt
cattlemen is the order of President
Cleveland, warning cattlemen and 'sothel
intruders" to leave the Indian Territory
within forty days. There are two very
distinct sides to this question. On tn,
one hand, the present residents and own
ers of cattle in the Indian Territory ar
for the most part innocent sub-lessees
The organized lessees are wealthy specu
lators who took the chances of theil
leases from the Indians being declared
illegal, the Interior department. merel,
giving them their tacit consent. Never
theless, innocent parties will for tn,
most part be sufferers unless they car
make the original lessees responsible fol
all damage. On, the other hand, if The
government did not declare the leases
illegal and compel cattlemen to remove
they would most certainly break faitf
with the Indians. Up to the present, NJ
move has been made toward driving thu
cattle out and a policy of delay has beer
inaugurated which, in view Of the pres
ent attitude Of the administration, car
only do harm to the cattle owners. Bu1
where in the world to drive between
100000 and 100000 head Of cattle il
what is bothering the Territory cowmen
Neither Kansas, Colorado or Nebraska
can possibly find room for them and i
is too late in the season to drive as fa
north as Dakota or Montana. II TIL
cattlemen take immediate steps to tr,
and carry out the executive order TIL
limit Of forty days can easily be extend
4 ed. II the present dilatory policy !
i kept up, it can but result in immens
loss to the cattlemen. The Cow Boy ha
too often declared Its sentiments on th
reservation question to be misunderstood
We believe thoroughly that every Indial
n reservation should be thrown open t
I, settlement except say 100 acres for eacl
q Indian and an honest manner of con
ducting the distribution Of food to til
! Indians be inaugurated. This is th
!. only way to settle the difficulty and I'll
way it must finally be decided.