The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-02
WILD HORSES As GAME.
A Scheme to Make Big Profits by Catching Them for Food and Other Purposes.
 IFrom the Sah Francisco Examiner1

A Scheme to Make Big Profits by Catching
 Them for Food and Other Purposes.
 From the San Francisco Examiner.l
 J. G. Brown, q prominent business man of this city, has returned from the north after several weeks absence. He brings the information that conn pany has been organized to capture 100000 wild horses and treat them in the abattoirs at Trout Dale on the Columbia river, reducing certain parts to oil, saving the hams for the people of France to eat and utilizing the hides and bones in various ways.
 MT. Brown was reticent as to the de- tails of the novel industry, but from other sources the whole story was learned. Those backing the enterprise are L.. Zimmerman, F. May, F. D. Gardner and Felix Faugher, well known capitalists and stock men of the northwest. For some time the horses that have, grown wild in the mountains and isolated valleys and those in the ranges not classed as wild, have fallen so low in price that they are worth but the mere bagatelle of from s2.50 to $5 each. ..-..
 The aforesaid capitalists figured that they could make $4 a head, or a total of $S0.OO0, by capturing the wild horses and shipping them to the abattoirs. Since they got to work on the project, however, they have concluded that the opportunities are larger, that they will have many more horses to handle and will make a vast sum before they get through with it. They have therefore incorporated company and will em- ploy skilled crew of vaqueros and do a great business. Many of the horses have no owners and they will be caught wherever they are and brought to the abattoirs. Vast numbers besides these will be bought at the low figures men, tioned and brought to Trout Dale. This dispatch from Portland last night gave some of the details: J There are vast number of mongrel horses now In various parts of the north west, and it is proposed to get rid of them at profit and at the same time give the growers of good American horses a better market for them. The mongrels will therefore be brought to the abattoirs and killed. The flesh will be rendered of its oil and the residue with the bones and hoofs, will be made into fertilizer.
 "The hidesj that have always a mar ket value, will be salted, and the hair with the ntanes and tails, will be used in upholstery work. A portion of the l meat will be compressed for use as chicken food. It is estimated that in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Nevada and Idaho there are at present 2,00o;00t half breed wild horses for which nc market can now be found"
 The dispatch adds that the industry of reducing the horses to oil, upholstery etc., has come to be considered so i'm. portant that the company proposes ,tc build a new abattoir at Portland Another dispatch gives more details. Several parties, both here and on Puget Sound," 1t says, have been flr. uring for some weeks on slaughtertnl the horses. There are large numbers ju1 half-breed and cayuse horses esttns the grass on stock ranges in eastArn Oregon and Idaho which cannot be sold anywhere at any price. It is thought that thousands of these horses can bs bought for from g to N q head, and that they might be slaughtered at : small profit. There is . sale for ths skins, bones, oil. etc. and it was even imagined that the hams sniEAt 6e cured and shipped to Paris. where hprss flesh Is eaten by. the poorer classes. z
 In addition to thsdthmasands of wild and mongrel horses h the reEionS N