St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-26
Grades introduced With the Best of Results in All
Lines Of Both Hoof and Pelt
Animals.

In presenting the entertaining features
of one of the leading industries of the
Northwest plan is followed whereby
readers are not Overburdened with sta
tistics. In a separate department be-
low the figures are tabulated and COM
pactly condensed so as to be clear and
easily understood. General descriptive,
historical and commercial information
occupy their respective places.
Every resident of either country or
city is interested in that which affects
the pOcket-in all that relates to the
distribution of enormous wealth among
vast numbers of people, and, in case the
interest of Eastern readers OF this arti-
Gle is broken by references to the wild
Western methods of handling dumb
bruteS, they will probably excuse the
recOunting of sucn thrilling scenes as
those in which the active, daring COW
boys participate, on the score of its
being highly important part of
a far reaching subject - namely,
live stock in the Northwest. Forty
years ago a cow was a curiosity in
the geographical subdivision of the
Northwest known as Minnesota terri
tory, which was much larger than the
state of MinnesOtata and included the
eastern portion of the Dakotas. Tue
total value of all the tame animals in
Minnesota territory in 1850 was less
than 100000. Ten years later the stock
footed S3.642, 81. In 1870 the footing
reached $50, lis, al, and in 1891, in this
smaller area, the state has an as
sessed valuation of live stock of
1871, 1894. Surrounding states that
are tributary to st. Paul have grown
live stock with corresponding rapidity.
until now the value of live stock in this
tributary district is valued at low eSti-
mates at $500, 100000. This immense
sum includes S3I 100000 for range cat
tie, horses and sheep in Montana, a
state whose live stock was scarcely no.
ticeable in its assessments of 1880.
MinnesOtanS lived on veniSOn, and
the Dakotans and MOntananS slaugh-
tered the buffalo within a brief genera
ton. There were good many buffalo
in Montana in 1880. The highest fig
ures number the buffalo now at 2CO
head, and these are guarded by "blue-
coats" in Yellowstone Park. The
hunters slaughtered these shaggy wild
cattle by the hundreds of thousands,
and, unwiJtingly,
Cleared the Ranges
for the stock growers who had diScov-
cred through information from "bull
WhackerS" in or about the year 1876
that work oxen turned out on the range
to die in the winter had come back to
the mining camps as fat as butter,
spring after spring. The value of Mon
tana buffalo grass for feed on the range
in the winter was recent accidental
discovery.
In Minnesota and the adjacent states
feed is plenty, the hay is cut and held
in secure places where it can be easily
used for forage; the herds are divided
into pastures in the summer and under
shelter in the winter, and no noticeable
losses occur in this very healthful dis
trict, where fine lands are so reasonable
III price and yet suitable for all kinds
of agriculture in addition.
1t seems queer that, despite all the
notOrety that has been given to Mon
tana cattle matters by prominent artists
and writer's through the magazines and
newspapers. there are yet many people
even in the Northwest who know very
little about rOund-upS, brands, mavericks
and numerous more familiar terms of
the Montana ranges. The cowboys are
often out for several weeks on a round
up, and sleep on the ground wherever
their work is OvOr, with a saddle their
pillow and the sky or clouds for a
ceiling. They shipped from Mon
tana and Northwestern Dakota this
season about 1S5, 900 head of beef cattle
that Melted the owners SC, 500 900. That's
what they call the beef crop. Since the
losses by severe cold in SO Montana has
done less cattle breeding and more fat
tening, bringing young steers now from
the south at the rate of about 100000
head each season. Steers stand cold
weather better than she stock, and after
they have run on northern grass for two
or three years they are generally in
good shape for the dressed beef mar
kets.
Montana Live Stock.
(All Kihds.l
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