The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-05-07
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Western wethers sold at 81. 40 at
South Omaha Friday.
Corbin Morse bought a bunch of
200 head of stock cattle at Belle
Fourche last Friday.
Stockmen OF the Cheyenne river
have been waging a war on gray
wolves and have killed Al head of
whelps and grown wolves within a
month.
"Shorty', Mckinney, Burl Rob
inette and Frank Young have made
arrangements to go south with
Willard Halls horses. They will
depart about June abundance
Monitor.
Heavy losses in cattle from the
ravages of wolves are reported from
the ranges north and west. On
Powder river it is said they come
into the sheds and corrals and kill
calves. -Sundance Monitor.
ALT. Meeks returned last Wednes-
day from Nebraska, where he has
been feeding cattle during the win
ter says the Sundance Monitor. He
brought back a fine Hereford bull
and seven heifers.
The Billings, Montana, Gazette
says prospects have not locked bet
ter for a prosperous season in Mon
tana during the last four years than
this spring. With sheep at So per
head, 10 or 12c wool aud a good
price for cattle, it begins to look
good.
Ike Humphrey brought down
several hundred head of cattle Thurs
day from his ranch near Hermosa
and placed them on his Slim Butte
ranch east Of town. These we're
largely composed of COWS and calves
which he fed during the winter on
his alfalfa farm.-Oelrichs Times.
S. A. Iden; who has been in Edge
mont for some years and who just
returned from a successful sheep
venture at Stanton: Neb., leaves for
Eugene City, Oregon, this week.
Mr.. Iden has been very fortunate in
his sheep ventures and has got to-
gether a comfortable fortune which
he will enjoy on the Pacific coast
where he will so after visiting in
Oregon.-Edgemont Express.
The next annual meeting of the
South Dakota Sheep Breeders and
Wool Growers Association will be
held at Pierre commencing Tuesday
June 22nd. As the outlook for the
sheep business is everywhere bright
ening, a large attendance is ex-
pected and everything indicates that
the meeting will be one Of more than
usual interest and value to those in
anyway interested in the business.
The Buffalo Gap Republican says
that from talk with numerous cattle
men in that vicinity it is thought the
per cent Of loss in stock will not be
very large, although most everyone
.ost some. Where the pastures had
plenty Of feed the stock is coming
out in good shape, but those on the
outside where the feed was short
the stock looks thin and are
weak. Generally speaking,
the cattle are thinner and weaker
this spring than for a good many
years.
Charlie Beason has returned from
the meeting at Miles CITY, Montana.
He says that the. losses of cattle are
heaviest in North Dakota and in
Eastern Montana, in which locality
the loss ranged from Is to 40 per
cent. West of Miles City cattle
stood the winter well, and many
ranchmen report no loss of any con
sequence. Charlie says that the loss
was chiefly among young cattle, and
that the supply for market this fall
will not be much short of a year ago.
Grass is starting nicely and there
will be plenty of good range through
out the whole northwest this year.