Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-04-01
SOME M'KENzIE HORSES.
Pedigrees of Some Wonderful Oregon
\ Mares.


| A JOURNAL horse writer asked DIR.
Powell Reeves, now of Salem, how he
became, interested in standard bred
horses, something about his famous Mos
Kenzie river. stock farm and fine ami,
mails there. 4 He said:
"Being . lover of horse and sas !.
have owned and driven q few good
ones and bred and raised, and am breed.
ing horses now. to cell. After visiting
the many large horse breeding farms
10 Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
and California, selected farm ip
Oregon, five miles east of Eugene, Lane
county, on the Mckenzie river, a fork
of the Willamette, There 1 have a.
beautiful stream. of mountain water
flowing through my farm as cold
as ice all through the summer,
and 800 acres of fine Kentucky blue
grass, shaded along the stream with
fine oak and cedar. 1 find that the soil
is very warm, rich and productive.
Grass and feed is abundant ten months
Of the year, which enables me to raise
the horse with but little expense.
| ,"I have imported from Kentucky
one of the grandest bred young stations
Kentucky ever produced, being sired
by the great favoritc, Wilkes G257,
record 2:249, a son of old George Wilkes,
the greatest stallion that ever lived.
His dam being Clay mare, what all
breeders like to have in horse is Clay
blood. also purchased at big price
the great mare, Jenna d. p, by Alta
mont, dam Lady Clark, which had
trained at a yearling, and showed me
a mile in her yearling form in 2:294,
driven by VIM. Campbell in Dallas,
Texas, the best bred Altamont In. Ore
gon. Also Ferno, black mare which
poled horse out in race in Wiscon-
sin, in her 3-year-old form, In 2:l6,
She is by Montana Wilkes, dam
Dalyano by Dictator; also brown mare
by Kentucky Volunteer, dam by Bell
mond. This mare had trained at 2
years old and she showed a mile in
2:44s. After testing the speed Of these
three mares shipped them to Chicago
and bred them to Roy Wilkes, record
2:054, the greatest and gamest race
horse in the world W hich history shows.
/ had those three mares shipped back
to Oregon and each one of them foaled
a fne colt. They are now one year old
this spring, have been offered $1,000
each cash, for two Of them which / re-
fused and ten thousand would be no
temptation for each of them. Now
have purchased a Nutwood mare from
California, which is very speedy; also
eleven head Of standard and registered
mares from. Kentucky, which I have
on the Mckenzie ranch br. sding to
this young Wilkes stallion.
| Farmers and breeders cannot be too
: careful in breeding. First, get blood,
of size, bone and speed, color clean, and
sound of hmb and feet, for brood mares.
Then select the best bred stallion In
size, color, and be sure he is sound and
of good disposition, and 1 will assure
you If you breed right you will got car
riage horses, road horses and race
horses, which will sell right here at
home for $500 to $1,000 apiece at three
and four years. old. How can You
make money, easier and faster? Breed.
ers should weed, out their common
stock. They are down to nothing.
Give them away. Breed nothing but
what is standard, registered and shown
speed aud has style, and you will
always fnd good market at home fol
all you raise. That is the experience OF
noted breeders."