St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-18
A HEAVY CATTLE run,
Some Careful Statistics of the
Annual Movement From
Montana.
Increase Over Last Year Of at
Least Twenty Thousand
Head.
About Four Million Dollars to
Be Realized From the
Sales.
Heavy Live Stock Business
Transacted at South st.
Paul.

WARN lTOIn Gil6 ranges NORTHWEST OIL mere
100000 head, instead of $4,000 head,
which was the total number last year.
About this time year ago the GLOBE
predicted that the figures for 1889 would
reach over $4,000, and they did.
Twenty thousand head of cattle are
worth fully 100000 on the range at the
reasonable prices now prevailing. That
number is about as many as Nelse Nor
ris bought in Montana last spring, and
when the markets and other things went
against his Judgment he sent up into
the new state which is the abode of cat
tie and gold and silver and sheep and
horses. paid about S65, 1000 in straight
forward manner, and annulled most of
his cattle contracts at the rate of S597.50
per head for the annulIment. Cattlemen
are generally oH-hand in their methods,
and if their deal goes crosswise they
ante the margins and settle the ac-
count, especially in Montana, unless
some high-strung tenderfoot insists
upon knowing the exact difference be-
tween dry cow and a dry heifer. in
which case the Courts may be called
upon to determine the mOmentouS QueS-
ton.
But for the fact that Nelse Morris be-
GENE a CO ,ral figure this season in the
cattle trade in this section. he might
have been overlooked in this review.
He was, until recently, believed by
many to be opposed to the movements
of certain Minnesota live stock men,
but since he has chosen to extend the
business of his firm and operate i'll the
North Star state the situation has
changed to the advantage of all con-
cerned.
The Montana cattle movement of 1889
would have been larger but for the
winter losses Of 1867, when the calf
crop was greatly diminished, making
the number of ripe steers in 1889 about
equal to that of 1883. Dry weather
early this year and low prices in East
ern markets have
Kept the Shipments Lower
thus far than some expected, but the
feeling all around is now better. The
the beef herds are being rounded up,
and many thousands of steers are moY-
ing toward the shipping points.
These figures Oh the range cattle
movement are not random guesSwork
like some of the census statistics. These
are born of active experience in Mon
tana and Dakota among the cattlemen.
aud of attention to the subject for sew
eral years past, during which special
effort has been made to keep track of
the losses and gains in numbers OF
Northwestern range cattle. The credit
of hitting close to the mark is due, not
to one alone, but also to other well
posted men whose opinions have bear
ing upon the outlook.
About S4.OO0,0O0 should be realized at
nnf hot
number of head requires $500 cars. or
about $50 medium size trains, for its
movement. Every cattle-carrying rail-
road eager for the traffic has electrified
its ''driverS" aud tracks. and is sending
forward the palace cattle stables on
wheels almost with the SwiftnesS of a
.vestibuled limited" The season be-
gan July ID. The middle of it has now
been reached. Next week it will be at
its height, and it win last two months
lOnger-until about Nov. Is prox.
The number of carloads moved since
July ID to date has been 1,222 Streets
stable cars and 401 common stock cars.
Total. 1,623 cars. Nelson Morris 81 Co.
used the largest number credited to one
concern, viz, 274 cars. Over 500 cars
are now ordered to be used within the
next two weeks (before Oct. y in load
ing II, 900 head of cattle at stations on
the Northern Pacific railroad. The
Great Northern will handle about 81, 900
head of the aforementioned seasons
run. About 60 per cent of the Montana
cattle already received went through the
Minnesota Transfer, their owners hav-
ing waybilled direct to points farther
East. The Union stockyards have re-
ceived large number, and the yards at
New Brighton did fair business dur
in hl artu rf of %
An Interesting View
of the live stock business now going on
here was gained yesterday by visit to
the Union stock yards at South ST. Paul,
where upwards of 5,00e Montana steers
have been handled during the past ten
days, Sept. Z to II. The receipts there
during the last five days of August
(M0ntana cattlel numbered Lab head,
while from Sept. to II there arrived at
South st. Paul $40 head, an incre ase
in that brief period of 134 per cent. The
following shipper4 were represented:
Dates. Shippers Cars Cattle.
Sept. 10, Floweree q Lowereee: II sos
Sept. 10, |. Meyer, n. Morris IL 70 LAB
Sept. 8, Towers Gudgell -. I24
Sept. 9, Holt 4 Murphy :. 10 3l5
Sept. 8. Montana Cattle Co :. ....17 347
Total number OF head. 1900. 49,. {, 40
These, together with the other re-
ceipts mentioned above and 353 head
owned by Messrs. Bariteh d Weis, make
the total of recent arrivals 6,966 head
If they weighed only LOO pounds each
| and brought but $3.50 per 100 pounds
| their value would be somewhat more
| than quarter of a million dollars. This
| department of the live stock business is
| only in its development for this season.
| 1t has always been handled SO salts
| Sactorily for the various railroads that
| operate at South st. Paul that its rapid
| increase is foregone conclusion. The
| frequent sale of range as well as of
native cattle to the Minnesota beef
| dresSerS causes the rangemen to look to
| st. Paul as a growing market, AMI the
| increase in both sales and receipts is of
| direct benefit to the wageworkers and
| farmers, as we'll as to the business men
| of the state.
| Among other prominent Montana names
| recently registered at South ST. Paul were:
| The Home Land and Cattle company. Miles
City; Conrad Kohrs, Deer Lodge; X. Ash
| worth, of Red Lodge. and L. c. Power & Co.,
| Fort Benton. MIR. Ashworth had two trains
| in this week, one of which 294 head went
| East yesterday; a, 563 head of sheep (nine-
teen double decks went East yesterday for
| 2,7S6 head for George ". Wentworth who
| is fattening 10000 head on his farms near
| South st. Paul. The feeding barns of j. B.
Long, Pierce Brothers, Samuel Atchison and
| others at the Union stockyards have capac-
ity of 10000 head, and another to hold 10,
900 head is under construction. The receipts
| of sheep there have increased 1877 per cent
| during this month as compared with the
same period last year. A remarkable growth
| is also noticeable i'll the cattle and hog de-
| partments. where the statesmen reported an
active and growing business, with quick
sales and satisfactory prices realized in COM
| parison with other markets. Nearly ali the
native and Dakota cattle offered there yester-
| day (about 300 head sold before noon. and
| by o'clock the yards were cleared. Dakota
| and Missouri buyers looking TOR stoekers and
| feeders only partly filed their orders. and
with the general buyers, are waiting for more
| arrivals.
| Many Outside Buyers
have representatives at South ST. Paul
| and fill their needs there. Nelson Nor
ris IL Co. are buyers of bulls and heavy
| feeders for the barns of the st. Paul
] Distilling company. The shipment