Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-25
HOME NEWS.
A Horse. Breeders Association About
to be Organized in the
County.
Good Stations Will be Procured
and Uniform Rates Will be
Charged.
A Few Thoughts Regarding the
Missouri River and its
Commerce.

Commerce.
b urleigh County Horsebreeders' Associa-
ton.
Several Of Bismarck's prominent and
substantial citizens who are interested
in high bred horses are considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of organizing a horse
breeders association, the object of which
is to raise the standard of horses bred in
Burleigh county, without increasing the
cost to the owners of mares. If a sufi-
Gent number of farmers and others
who expect to breed mares can be in
duced to join the association, the en-
terprise a be made an assured success
from the start. The time has surely ar
rived when the horse owners of this
county should breed to full blood
horses, especially 10 when they can do
it at less cost than if they bred to grade
horses. There is scarcely a horseman
in the county who can afford to own as
many different classes Of standard bred
horses as he would like to breed to-. One
of the objects of the proposed society is
to remedy this by giving it's members
the advantage of being able to breed to
any one of a half dozen full-blood stall
lions at a much less price than is now
paid for the service to an inferior
horse.
The general plan of the projectors of
the association is to purchase five or six
pure blood registered stations. Say
probably a Clydesdale, two or three
Percherons, a French coacher, and a
%trotter; the horses to be the best obtain
able in their respective strains, and to be
the absolute property of the 1850
citation; then incorporate for a period
of five years. Owners of mares are to be
permitted to purchase a share of stock
in the association for every single mare
that it is proposed to breed, and others
will be permitted to secure the stock for
its dividend earning capacity. Each
single share of stock is to entitle the
holder to breed one mare to anyone of
the blooded horses each year for five
years, with the privilege of changing
stalllons every year if desired. If
enough persons join the association, the
cost of breeding to these stations can be
reduced to simply nothing. The profits
of the enterprise are to 90 divided among
all the members. The man who breeds
one mare will receive his share of the
earnings just the same as the one who
breeds ten. In other words, the associa
ton is to be a cooperative, joint stock
horsebreeders concern, with a view to
raising the class of horses in the county
and reduce the cost of breeding. Such
a stud of full blood stations as it is pro-
posed to purchase would naturally rem
der service outside the membership of
the society, and these fees would 90 into
the treasury to be divided at the end of
the season. The association having such
a largs number of stations, it is the in
tention to have them stand in different
parts of the country. AS soon as a suf-
ticient number of shares are taken these
stations will be placed on exhibition IN
Bismarck, aud each member given the
privilege of selecting the ones he wants to
breed to; and it will not make any diff
ference what section of the county he
may reside in, the routes for the season
for the different horses will be made to
bring the ones he prefers to his neigh
borhood during the breeding period, and
thus save him the time and trouble of a
long drive. It is also intended to have
a good barn, safe corral and fine pas
ture, where mares can have the best of
care during the season.
The most desirable features of the
entire enterprise, however, lie in the fact
that the standard of the horses Of the
country will thus be at once raised and
the price of breeding Immediately re-
duced to he minimum, and at the same
time give the owners of every share of
stock an interest in a stud of grand pure
blood stations. Also in the feature that
everyone breeding to one of these horses
on a membership in the association
avoids the annoyance Of a lien, as the
association does not propose to place
liens upon the property of any of it's
members. Then, besides, the purchaser
of a share of stock will derive all the
benefit of all the earnings of his share
and get i've years breeding for practi-
cally nothing. He would have the privi-
lege OF breeding his own stock and that
of his neighbor. This is something
worthy of the consideration of every
horse owner in the county. The entire
plan OF the association will be fully ex-
planned to everyone at the office of
Gerald Pierce, where the association will
have it's headquarters for the present,
and where the entire plan of operation
will be fully explained and stock sub
scriptions taken. It will not cost own
ers of horses anything to give this pro-
ject a thorough investigation.
Gerald Pierce, A. 8. Capehart, q. s.
Neal, E. s. Beardsley and Elliott Barnes
have announced their intention of incor-
porating this association.
River and Commerce.
1t is a fact not generally known that
Bismarck has the largest river ware
house in the country. 1t is forty feet