The Dickinson press., 1897-08-21
RanQe aUd Stock Notes.

RaageIapd Stock Notes.
TIP. Mesterh rangsrs = year ago
Tuesday, sou Us. Converse soil
278 Texans averaging ll35 lbs. vt
that price,.
Tho farmsit;siss of McCook county s.
D.. have organized adetecttv, asso-
citation to prevent the wholesale
stealing Of st6ck.
J. G. F. PAgker and J. q. Daley
were out to t1sir. cattle ranch in the
Bad Lands q short time ago. They
found the stock in fine condition.
Herb is an excellent manager.
Miles City journal: The Murphy
Cattle company ara said to have sold
all their three and four year Odds for
three seventy per hundred {. o. b.
here but to bs'weighed at Aurora. Ill.
John Ballard Of Oakdale says that
cattle are not as fat as they should
be at this season of the year. He
does not consider that the range Is
overstocked and does not know how
to account for 1t.
G. T. Langley got s4.l5 for feeders
on Tuesday; Mike Lally $4.l0; VIM.
Ray 40. The same day G. G. Mead
sold 8 carloads of handsome beeves
at 4.40. They weighed 1910. All
we're consigned to Paris 4 ALE nberg.
During the past five months
over. 100000 Colorado a~lfalfa.fed
lambs have bean sold on the Chicago
market at prices ranging from $500
to 1926. Why not make this a prof.
liable industry IN North Dakota!
Quinn's Review: j. L. Humble, the
sheep king of the Bitter Root valley.
recently sold $4,000 head to G. NJ,
Dinsdale of Dickinson, N. D. Mr..
Hunble's sale of. sheep and wool this
season foots up $45. 0oO.
Frank H. Gibbs: I have let my
sheep out to my son Allie and will
probably move to Dickinson in the
fall. Ned will help his brother in
caring for the sheep. They will
have about $500.
F. NJ. Joslin of Aberdeen, S. D.,
has gone to Billings, Mont. to buy
10000 head of lambs. A gentleman
from that place will Join him and
take 10000 more, all of which will be
shipped into the stubble fields about
Wahpeton for few weeks graz ing
and then will 60 to the New Brighton
feed yards to be finished off for mar.
ket.
Paul Mccormick has bought the
IT outfit of Slim Butte, South Da
kota. This is, the same brand
used BY MI. McCormick's outfit in
this state and has been the means Of
much annoyance. John Goodall re-
turned a few days ago with the cattle,
which had been ranged at Slim
Buttes.
/ Judge E. G. Chase of Bismarck has
written F. A. Little of this place as
follows: "a friend of mine In Ohio
asks If he can buy 1000 to 1900 weth-
ess for feeding. He wants prices,
age, weight and breed" The judges
friend should make his wants known
through the PREss-at a small cost
and he would undoubtedly find inst
what he wants.
Sheepmep who held their wool
have bright prospects. The Wool
and Cotton Reporter says Of the Bos-
ton market: "Prices are being marked
up in the market 80 fast that it is ex-
tremely difficult to keep track of
them. This applies to both foreign
and domestic wool. Not since the
excltement in wool began has the
market been flrmer than during the
past week."
j. A. Farrah had % cows on Mon.
days market which sold at three
sixty-five; weight 1865. They were
sold by Paris. l. Allenberg. W. L.
Richards sold 43 cows the same day
at three fifteen; steers at three sixty
five to three eighty. Reynolds Bros.
sold steers at three eighty to four
Ave.
Miles City Journal: Not long ago
in fighting fire Messrs Towers & Gud.
CELL of Wibaux killed twenty head of
cattle in order to use the carcasaea
for fire drsgs, Fire on the range
must be put out even if it does cost
a great deal Of money. This firm
has a fire drag made Of a big she ct
Of asbestos cloth about 9x1Q feet
dragged acroSS!a g'purning grass by
the owboysaadd1'!wor well. The
asbestos WILL not Durn and as a sheet
it covers the embers and prevents
their scattering. [These drags were
patented by Geo. +. Woodman of this
place last winter: A large numbe.
of them are in use and it is believed
that they will prove indispensable to
stockmen. Ed
The cattle raising [ra of Towers
4 Gudgell of Wibaux has paid out
the sum of one thousand dollars fol-
two hundred gray wolves killed by
their men durttg the last winter and
spring. They paid out eight hundred
dollars last year for the came thing.
The men bring in the skins and the
firm then cuts off the front feet and
then the boys bring the skins to the
county clerk and the ears are punched
and the state then paya the state
hountv nm the came deceased wolves.