The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-05
ABOUT MONTANA HORSES
4 Large Shipment Of Good OleS For
The East.
w. H. RAYMOND'S SCHEME
The Well Known Horseman Talks
In an Interesting Manner
About His Somewhat Novel
Experiment.

BUTTE, Feb. 4.-W. H. Raymond, of the
Belmont Park Stock farm, and Larrabee
& Amsden will ship 80 of their choicest
horses to the eastern markets about March
l with a view to showing eastern people
what Montana can produce in the
way of fine driving stock, and build.
ling up permanent market for Montana
| bred horses.
About so of the horses will como from
Mr.. Raymond's we'll known farm. They
are all geldIngs from 4 to 6 years old and
| represent the best get of Com. Belmont,
| Tempest, Doncaster and Park, out OF
| Hambletonian mares. There are about
10 high style carriage teams in the Let and
| the others are a choice lot of roadsters.
The same Is true of the horses that will
be shipped by Larrabee & Amsden, which
| are of about the same breeding as the
| others.
Mr.. Rlymond's horses will go largely to
! the markets of Chicago and New York,
while those of Larrabee and Amsden will
go To Vermont and other New England
| states. This will be the first lot of WE'LL
broken and thoroughly developed road
sters that have ever been shipped east
from Montana. They were ali broken
| when and years old and have been
worked continually ever since.
Il.
says, have been in the habit of shipping
understood and only partly broken
horses, and this lot, he thinks, will open
eastern peoples eyes. The horses are
not only we'll bred and fully developed,
but they are what is known as "hgh step
pers"' and are very attractive. MIR. Ray
mond believes That they are as thor
oughly representative a lot of horses as
could be got together anywhere in the
country.
There is a pretty general belief that
horses are a drug on the market all over
the country, but Mr.. Raymond does not
believe this is true of carriage horses, and
1t is to effectually test this proposition
that the large shipment will be made. Ii
the venture Is successful and the horses
meet with the demand which is antic-
pated, il will result in the establishment
OF a strong market for Montana bred
horses and for this reason the large ship
ment is of general interest.
The shippers are not going ii blind, how
ever. Mr.. Raymond has received numer-
Gus letters recently from eastern people
which show a demand for horses of STYLE
and action, and he is consequently of the
opinion that the venture will prove a suc-
cess.
II believe that it will be proved that
Montana Is the greatest horse raising
state in the United States" said Mr..
Raymond tonight. I'VE have advantages
here that are not possessed by any other
state in the union. principally among
which are our dry winter climate and the
superior quality of our hay and oats.
have been working my horses on good
roads continually for the past 60 days,
while the horses have been unable to get
out in California and Kentucky for SIX or
eight weeks. A great deal hes been said
about the fine feet and limbs
and wonderful powers of endurance
of Montana bed horses. While we
know that it is all true the proof of the
pudding lies in the eating, and we propose
to show the people of the East that we
have told the truth about our horses.
There is no question but what we can
raise better horses in Montana than they
can anywhere else, and we can raise them
a great deal cheaper. 1t costs only $40 a
head to ship them to Chicago and less
than SIS to New York, which is a very
small item with 100 horses.