Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-25
WILD HORSES As GAME.
How 1t II Proposed to Capture and
Kill Them I'm the Northwest.

How 1t Ii Proposed to Capture and
Kill Them in the Northwest.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
J. u. Brown, a prominent business man
OF this city, has returned from the NORTH
after several weeks absence. He brings
the Information that a company has been
organized to capture 2.UUU,UUO wild horses
and treat them in the abattoirs at Trout
Dale. on the Columbia river, reducing GER
tain parts to oil, saving the hams Tor the
people of France to eat and utilizing the
hides and bones IN various ways.
Mr.. Wands was reticent as To the details
of the novel industry. but from other
sources the whole story was learned. Those
backing the enterprise are l.. zimmerman
r.. May, r. u. Gardner and r'eIlx raugner
weil-known STOCK men ana capitalists VI the
northwest. For some time the horses that
have grown via IN Inc mountains anu
IsoiaIeu valleys, anu tnose IN the ranges
hot ciaSSed AS Wild, have IaiIen So low la
price That they ARE worth out tne mere
uaEateiIe VI Irom 40 10 ~ eacn.
he aIOreSalu capitalists ilg that they
couiu make 81 a head ny capturing the wiIu
horses anu shipping them ~ The aUaItoirs
since they Got 10 work Oh tine project, now
ever, they nave concluded ina, The oppur-
tunltles are larger. tnat they VIII nave
MANI more horses TO handle and Will make
vast sum before tney gee through Win L.
They have therefore, lncorpora leu a COM
pany and VIII employ a skilled crew vi
vaQueros and do a great business Many OF
the horses nave no uwners anu tney WIN be
caught wherever they are and brought to
the abattoirs. Vast numbers besides these
Will be bought at the low figures mentioned
and brought to Trout Dale. ms uIspa tch
from Portland gave some of the detaiis:
There are vast number of mongrel
horses now in various parts of the north
west, and II is proposed to get rid Of them
at pro1t and, at the same time. give the
growers OF good American horses a better
market for them. The mongrels WILL there
fore, be brought to the abatIoirs and killed
The flesh will be rendered of its oil and the
residue with the bones and hoofs, will be
made into fertilizer.
THE hides, that have always a market
value, will be sailed, ana the hair with The
names and tails, will be used in upholstery
work. A portion of the meat will be COM
pressed for use chicken food. 1t is esti-
mated that in Oregon, Washington, Mon
tana, Nevada and Idaho there are at pres
ent 2,OOO,OuO half-breed wild horses for
which no market can now be found"
The dispatch adds that the industry Of re-
ducing tine horses to OIL upholstery, etc,
has come to be considered so important that
the company proposes to build new abat-
toir at Portland. Another dispatch gives
more details.
Several parties. both here and on Puget
Sound. it says, have been figuring for
some weeks on Strengthening the horses.
There are large numbers of half-breed and
cayuse horses eating the grass on stock
ranges in eastern Oregon and Idaho which
cannot be sold anywhere at any price. 1t
Is thought that thousands of these horses
can be bought from 81 to 81 head, and
that they might be slaughtered at a small
profit. There Is a sale for the skins, bones,
oil, ETC., and 1t was even imagined that the
hams might be cured and shipped to Paris,
where horsehesh is eaten by the poorer
classes"