The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-07-03
Depositors Get o Dividend.

DOpaestofs yet y D1vl00nd.
LAKE CITY, Mimi, July 3.-R. H.
Moore, receiver of the Merchants bank
of this city, has obtained an order from
Judge Gould for a first payment of %
per cent 10 depositors, which will
amount to about $40, 600.
Big Land Deal.
EGAN. s. D., July 3.-The largest
land deal in the history of Moody
county has been consummated here,
between A. q. Brown Of this county
and a wealthy German farmer from
Northwestern Iowa. The amount OF
land is 100 acres, adjoining the town.
site o: Egan on the east, and traversed
the wnole length of the tract by the
B.g Sioux rvtr, and the price per acre
is $50, or $4,000 for the tract.
BREEDING 6uFFAloEs.
Some of the u,hTiis That Are Produced
Are line Animals.
A famous Montana character is Char
lie Allard of Ravalli. Mr.. Allard is ia
nous mainly because he is one of the
owners of the largest herd of buffalo in
the country, and no man living has
given to these now rare animals more
patient study and attention than he.
1.-THE coolest storms of winter do not
trouble them" he says, for their
thick, shaggy coats are windproofl
During the heavy SHOWS and billiards.
they climb tine hills, and turning their
breasts to the wind defy the storm.
They feed whore the snow is thinnc~t.
Cattle are driven before q storm and
will often 60 with a wird GO or 100
miles from the accustomed range unless
they reach n sheltered spot. Horses turn
their backs to a storm, but the buffaloes
face it every time. They seem to keep
in about the same condition of flesh the
year round and are as good eating in
the spring as they are In the fall, and a
buffalo steak is about as fine a morsel
as ever a man made a meal of. About
two years ago l purchased the Jones
herd Of buffalo, which was at Omaha.
There were 81 of them in the herd, and
we paid (for l have partner now SIS,
900 for the lot. Marchiel Pablo, a we'll
known cattleman, has joined me in the
business and for the past year has had
entire charge Of them, so that do not
know just exactly how many we have
about lao, l should judge, now, and by
next fall there will be fully 900 of
them.
1--WE have experimental in crossing
buffalo with all breeds of cattle, and
the results are most satisfactory. The
Polled Angus stock when crossed with
the buffalo produces a magnificent ami
NAL. The fur is finer and closer than
that of the buffalo, and the meat is
sweet and wholesome. We are produc.
ing al many of these animals as posi-
BILE, but will not put any on the market
for several years yet. We are not selling
any buffalo either. for the reason tina,
We need them all at present. We re
ceive letters every day from museums
parks and shows wanting them in al
quantities, and though we might dis
pose of one or two singly we have NJ
pairs to sell.
"A good buffalo hide is worth 500
now in the market, and heads bring
from $500 to $500 when mounted, an,
the value Of these is steadily increasing
SO that buffalo breeding is as good a,
investment as real estate. Our nerd j
about the only one 1 know of an,
size. There is u small one in the Texai
panhandle. and these. with the few
that roam in the national park, are thu
sole remnants Of the thousands whicl
roamed the prairies but a few year
ago. '-Anaconda Mon Standard,