The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-26
In the Dress Goods Department
OWSLEY BUILDING

In the East with couple Of carloads of
range GeldinRs, which he writes he has no
difficulty In selling at from $3.50 head to
$500 per span.
In tho course of a recent trip In the
Upper Ruby valley the STANDARD corre-
spondent visited the Brook Nook ranch
of G. X. Larabie, a former Deer Ledger,
now resident OF Fairhaven, Wash, and
by the courtesy of Charles Kyle, the SUI
perintendent, was shown around a part OF
the magnificent premises and given an
opportunity to see some of the finest
horsefiesh to be found in the state II not,
indeed. in the entire United States.
Brook-Nook ranch derives its name from
the fact that il lies in beautiful valley
surrounded by low foothills, from the
hooks In which flow innumerable little
brooks which supply the lowlands with
enough water TO obviate the necessity for
irrigation, and furnish the stock with n
never-failing supply of water which never
freezes, even in the coolest weather The
farm Is about 500 acres in extent, partly
lowland, partly benchlands and partly
billy range. IL Is surrounded by about 80
miles of outside fencing, intersected with
numerous cross fences, dividing the
meadow lands from the upland or grain
raising portion, and these again from the
foothill pasturage and grazing lands.
The home farm is at the village of Home
Park, and might more appropriately be
callel Barntown, from the number ofjthose
useful buildings which Mr.. Larabie has
erected for the accommodation and care
of his horses aud horned stock. Tho
barns, IL in number, are large, well-built
and commodious structures, built especi-
ally with q view to the comfort and WE'LL
being of the animals, and are fitted up
with all the appliances which modern
ingenuity has devised for convenience
and the saving of labor in the care, hand
ling, and feeding of the stock. Cory, yet
roomy. stalls are provided for the care of
sick horses in the hospital barns, and as
soon as an animal exhibits signs of an
ailment II is snugly housed in one of these
until the disease is eradicated or pro-
nounced incurable. Mr.. Larabie is evil
IDENTITY an extreme humanitarian in re-
gard to the management of his horses.
and the slightest manifestation of i'll
temper or harsh usage of them by an en-
ploye subjects the offender TO a perempt-
DRY call to the Office, where his time and
discharge are promptly given him. Sys-
tematic order and regularity are every
where apparent IN the details, and the
dominant idea IN the arrange ments seems
to be the obtaining n maximum of work
with n minimum of labor.
But, OF course, the principal attraction
OF the farm is the stock, and after viewing
the buildings, etc., the STANDARD man
was conducted to the stables, paddocks,
corrals, etc., where the animals are kept
during the winter months. He had heard
much about tho Larabie ranch and it's
splendid bands of horses, but was not
quite prepared TO find SO many represent
atives of fashionable equine families on
one Montana ranch as are to be seen here.
1t is not within the scope of this letter to
fully describe the animals in detail; but
mention OF few of the most prominent
will be of interest to horsemen all over tho
state. Notable among the stations is
14,429, the son of Electioneer
q horse inbred througe Henry Clay and
George M. Patchen, recognized every
where as two of the best channels of
in the trotting world. Commo-
dore Belmont is also among the stud, MIR.
Larabie having bought the horse from w.
II. Raymond some four years ago, and
seems as full OF spirit, courage and viril- |
ity as when he was colt. As he has |
been sufficiently described among
the Belmont Park horses, no fur |
Their mention is necessary here. Al |
lonez, 1866, with record of $3.50, is a
son of Red Wilkes and weighs about ESQ |
pounds. He is n splendid animal, every |
inch a trotter aud will make ono of tho |
most famous sires on the farm. Several |
other stations of note are here aud fully |
sustain the reputation of the farm as the |
home OF high breeding, purity of strain
and excellence of form in the horses.
There are nearly 200 brood mares on the |
farm and they, too, represent the best |
known trotting families in the country. |
Among them are found descendants of |
Mambrino, Piedmont, Pilot |
Duroc, Mambrino Paichen, Contractor,
Red Wilkes. Malcolm. Woodford Wilkes,
Robert McGregor, Wilkes Boy, Ben |
Franklin and score of others of national |
There are also about 100 year |
lings in the herd, and so gently have they
been handled that they flock around the |
veriest stranger to be petted and caressed |
when he goes into their corral Mr.. Lara
bic Is an ardent lover of good horsefiesh
and he has surely gratified his peculiar
hobby in this respect at Brook-Nook
ranch. Superintendent Kyle says he has
spent over n quarter of n million dollars