, 1892-01-17
An Exposition Of the Resources Of Saratoga, Gold Hill and the Upper Platte

follows: White Russian wheat. 10 1870
bushels per acre; okshoots winter barley,
not more than bali a stand. 29t bushels
per acre: Chill wheat, &c bushels per
acre; Welcome oats. 43 bushels per acre;
potatoes, Early Rose. 100 Tbs bushels
per acre; Early Vanguard. 62 / 80
bushels per acre; Black Spanish radishes,
39l bushels per acre; sugar beets: average
weight. 10S ounces; coificient Of purity,
1910; yield in sugar per acre. 2,l63
pounds.
These figures are not above, if up. to
the average yield. Very often potatoes
average 300 to 400 bushels to the acre.
The average yield of oats for ten years is
20 bushels, or 4 bushels per acre greater
than in Iowa.
THE SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY.
OF late years much attention is being
paid to the sugar beet In this
and the manufacture of sugar from it.
Factories have been established in Ne
braska, Utah and California and without
a doubt soon will be in Wyoming. Half
the worlds supply of sugar is now manu-
factured from the sugar beet, with the in
dustrv on the increase. The dry, arid
region of Wyoming Is favorable to the
raising OF sugar beets and those raised
on the SARATOGA farm last season con-
tanned a large per cent of sugar and the
pta1d uaa 0raotar than in ~ p.rt - tIo
United States. The conditions here are
favorable to the industry and the fore
most men of Saratoga are already begin
ming to consider the possibility of a beet
sugar manufactory at this place
STOCK RAISING.
The Platte valley was first settled
principally by stock men. The grass
cures standing aud in the early days cat
tie horses aud sheep lived the year round
on the range, and can do so yet for that
matter. The majority of the stock rais-
ers. however, are prepared TO take care of
their animals and hay and shelter are fur
nlshed during the winter though it is sell
dom necessary to feed hay before Christ
mas and sometimes not until the early
spring
A great many men here are paving
special attention to the raising of fine
horses. Hunter Bros, thirty five miles
from Saratoga on Rig creek, have about
1000 heal OF Clydesdsle horses. They
have about twenty five head of fine stall
lions. one of which Is a very valuable
HamletonIaD. Their ranch consists of
some 1000 acres of land iutersected BY
miles upon miles OF irrigating bitches, and
more than a thousand tom of hay are cut
each season. }. G. Brewer. five miles
above Saratoga. has l25 head of high
grade Normans, and Judge Kuykendall,
still nearer town, has a number of fine
animals. The Nichols family on Grand
Encampment creek have been in the bust
ness for years and have sold hundreds of
driving horses. Hardin Bros, sixteen
miles east, started by breeding cheap
broncho mares to fine horses and now
have a large herd of good animals. There
are many Others in the horse business and
all are apparently well satisfied with the
results.
CATTLE.
Cattle raising in the Platte valley is
at present on a safer basis than heretofore.
Cattlemeu learning from past experience
that the percentage of loss on the open
ranges were at times. though chiefly
from overstocking the ranges. so large as
to render the business improbable, have
reduced the size OF their herds, and only
handle what they are prepared to pasture
and feed during the winter months. The
cattle are gathered in the fall and turned
in the pastures, the hay being reserved
for the more severe winter weather.
While the herds are not 30 large as for
merly tie total number of cattle in the
valley has not decreased OF late years, the
difference being that instead OF one man
owning thousands Of head, they are as a
rule owned in punches OF from 200 to 500.
There are, however, still several herds of
over 3 900 each. These cattle are all well
bred. Short horn bulls are being used to
a great extent, although there are some
Heretords and Polled Angus bulls 10 differ
ent parts ofthe valley. he summer ranges
equal any to be found in the West. In
the foot hills the mountain bunch grass
grows luxuriously, and fine beet steers
are shipped from this section during the
autumn and early winter months. In
some instances the steers are fed hay
during the winter and sold early in the
spring. such beef being almost equal to
the corn fed cattle of Iowa sn6 other
states. There were four year old steers
fed hay in this section last winter that
weighed l,7O0 pounds in MAY.
There are no sheep men above Sara
toga, but between here and the railroad
are several and they are 'all making
money hand over fist" Carbon county
sheep are the finest bred in the United