The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-15
The ;, ANNUAL MEETING
Western South Dakota Stock
growers Association Holds
it's Annual Session.
A GOOD ATTENDANCE.
Three Hundred Enthusiastic
Stockmen. ALL the Great
Markets Represented.

Markets Represented.
One more annual meeting of the
Western South Dakota Stockgrow-
rs association has come and gone
and another milestone Indicative of
success has been placed in the line
which will necessarily be long one
before the range cattle industry,
with the proverbial star of the empire
moves on westward. Cattlemen be-
-an arriving in the city Monday and
by evening little knots of stockmen
could be seen on every hand earn
2stly engaged in the discussion of
the general stock situation, the out
look for the coming season and the
success OF the association during the
past year. Among the prominent
stockmen who came in one day ahead
OF the big meeting THE STocKMAN
noted Scotty Phillips of the Mime
sofa and Dakota Cattle Co., H. A.
Dawson Of Pine Ridge, Geo. f.
Heine and Carl Kroeger of Hooper,
Nebr., C. NJ. Lamson Of Oelrichs,
Secretary F. M. Stewart of Buffalo
Gap and many others. Monday
mornings train brought in from
Sioux City a delegation of live stock
commission men who made MANY
friends among the cattlemen while
IN the city, Among this delegation
we noted John Fl. Keene, the genial
manager of the Sioux City yards,
W. M. Ware, manager of the NAL
lory, Son & Zimmerman Co. of the
same city and Frank E. Scott, rep
resenting Simon & Pierce of that
place. All report the Sioux CITY
market in tlourishing condition and
state that arrangements are being
made for the successful handling of
& bigger business this season than
ever before, especially from the
western range country. THE STOCK
MAN acknowledges a most pleasant
call from each of these gentlemen.
That well known AID genial char
acter, A. H. Lee, representative of
the South Omaha yards in the Hills
country, was an arrival of Sunday
and from Monday morning until he
left on Tuesday evening he improved
the time renewing old acquain tances
and making new ones. General
Manager W. J. c. Kenyon of the
Omaha Union stock yards was an
arrival of Monday evening, having
come around over the Burlington
via Deadwoou. He made many
warm friends during the big meet
ing and did much missionary work
for his yards.
Kansas City was represented by
J. d. Seitz and 7. B. Tomb. The
forenoon was spent in talking over
the phases OF the live stock situation,
the rotunda of Hotel Harvey being
the headq uarters.
Association President G. X. How
and being absent on account of sick
ress the convention was called to
order by Vice President John D..
Stevens.
Mr.. Stevens called for the promi-
nent comisslon men AID yards man
agels to come to the platform. Sec
Rotary Stewart read greeting from
President Howard in which "Uncle'
Charley gave in his witty way the
reasons why he was absent
The roll call was dispensed with,
as was also the reading of the min
utes Of the meeting of 1897. The re-
port of the round up committee was
heard and adopted as read.
James Boyd, on behalf of the city
government, briefly addressed the
the convection ard made all feel that
their visit to the city was a welcome
one.
w. P. Anderson, representing the
Union Stock Yards of Chicago, was
called for and made witty talk,
closing with brief reference to the
Chicago yards and the advantages