The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-06-15
GREAT SALE
SHORT HORN CATTLE.
The First klaua! Sale tron Not Springs
Nerd, At HALEY, June 22d.

Robert StTahOrn GO. announce tnelI
first annual sale from the famous Hot
Springs Herd of Short Horn Cattle for
Saturday, June %, 1889. AS this is the
most important event of the kind that has
ever occurred in Idaho, stockmen univer-
SALLY will be interested in brief outline OF
this the largest herd of thoroughbred cattle
in the Northwest, as well as of the details
of the sale.
The Hot Springs Herd of Short Horn
Cattle was practically founded in June,
1888, by the importation from Kentucky OF
l25 head of registered animals. The herd
was selected by Robert Strahorn q Co.,
with reference to establishing at HALEY
hot Springs a permanent breeding and
dairy farm from which Idaho and neigh
boring States and Territories could select
the very best type of HOMEGROWN, ROBUST.
pURE-BRED cattle with which to grade up
native herds.
No pains or expense were spared to Sc
cure animals which would best unite the
best BEEF AND DAIRY QUALITIES. Hot
Springs Herd contains choice representa-
tives from such famous Kentucky herds as
those of Abram Renick, ]. s. Owsley, Cecil
4 Jones, B. G Mullins, J. NJ. Bigstaf and
Others. Their breeding for beef cannot be
excelled in Kentucky or any other country,
! while their fine milking qualities are daily
| attested by some fifty superb milk cows
| composing the Hot Springs Dairy.
Hot Springs Herd is now THOROUGHLY
AccL1xATED. Excepting the milk COWS the
herd has made its own living on the hills
| noar HALEY during the past winter. There
| is not an overfed, pampered or sickly ami
NAL il it. The increase, numbering some
sixty head, are largely of Idaho birth and
raising. It will be apparent to any breeder
that such herd offers far better selec
ton than any shipment fresh from the
East, Its owners are in Idaho to stay
They have a reputation to make and pro
pose making it by selling only that which
will bear the closest inspection and by rep
resenting individual animals exactly q!
they are.
! Among the families of Short. Horns no
ted the world over for their superiorit!
over the palmer bred types of the breet
the Hot Springs Herd embraces " Renicl
Rose of Sharons," Dutchesses," Rex
Rose" Young Mary's," Phyllis AM
/" Airdries." The prevailing color is
beautiful red-in fact out of nearly 200 heat
: in Hot Springs Herd there are only foul
animals possessing other predominatin
colors.
The grandsirc Of Airdrie of Elmot an
Duchess 80 of Hot Springs Herd is the At
Duke of Geneva, who sired the $12, 900 Duk
: of Oneida, and himself sold for $6,00(
; Rosebud q and Duke of Mount Auburn
of this herd are also direct descendants {
the very finest Short Horns known, an
themselves sold for $500 as soon as weanet
There IL not vicious animal i'll thi
, grand herd. This prevailing trait in Shol
Horn cattle makes them ESPECIALLY DEsII
ABLE FOR FAMILY USE. 1t is also fat
well known among breeders that the fir!
cross of Short Horns upon native stoc
almost invariably improves the dispositto
a well rs the form of the progeny.
No better move can be made in LAYIn
rHx FOUNDATION FOR DAIRY than goo
selection from Hot Springs Herd.
, Sale at Hot Springs Ranch, ~ mile
: from HALEY, Idaho. at 10 o'clock A.
. sharp. The surplus bulls-about 20 choit
: yearlings and two-year-olds-and fe
Z aplendid cows and calves will be sold to tt
q hieheet bidder Terms, One-ftth cash
. day Of sale: balance in approved notes
fo1Ir months time with interest at one pt
: cent per month. or ten per cent of f
# The Union Pacific company will ..
r round trip tickets from al stations on Il
Oregon Short Line and Utah Northel
to HALEY and return, good from June -
= vfil also enable visitors 10 attend the Graz
Opening of HALEY Hot Springs, June 2ot