The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-04-16
HB HAS MUCH TO LEARN.

"A. c. Cleveland, living at Cleveland,
Nevada, was at H. G. Duncan's farm
last week purchasing blooded stock.
Mr.. Duncan reports sales to him of
short horn cattle as follows: One ten
months old Cruikshank bull, price $500;
Two one-year-old heifers, price $50
each; two, two-year-old heifers, price
300 each; one Cruikshank topped bull,
-year-old, price $50. Twelve hum
dred and fifty dollars for six head OF
calves is not such a bad showing under
a Plutocratic (?) gold standard Repub-
ncan administration. In fact 1t would
be quoted as a DEVIL OF PRICE, PUT
ONTO A FREE SILVER AND FREE SHORT
HORN BASIS"
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1.-THE Hon. A. G. Cleveland who spent
a day or two with H. @. Duncan, in our
opinion Is showing better business judg-
ment in buying fine cattle than he show
cd by his actions the first time we had
the pleasure, (no, that is not as true as
It is polite, 1t was not pleasure) of see-
ing him. Then he was following Mr..
Teller out of the Republican National
Convention at st. Louis. We are sorry
we did not get, or take, the Opportun-
lty the other day ofasking him, whether
In his honest opinion just little spray,
so to speak, from the crest Of the wave
of prosperity had not reached the stock
growers, or has Mark Hanna got a
corner on bull calves when they sell for
four hundred dollars. And II the lat
ter how, how in the name of TEL
LERn does man from crushed and
Disseminated against Nevada get the
price OF the calves. There are some
points in this state of affairs that need
clearing up"
We copy the above articles from the
editorial columns OF the Osborn, mo. J
Enterprise, published March 10, 1898.
We heartily agree with the editor of
that paper that "there are some points
In this state of affairs that need clear
ing uph-in the mind of the editor. The
sight of bolter from the National
Gold-bug McHanna Convention, Tel
lerite, repudiator, yes, even an anar-
chist, coming back to the State OF Mis-
souri, with money enough to buy half
dozen head of blooded cattle seems to
have shaken that Missouri editor a
little off from his mental equilibrium.
Probably it never occurred to him that
an advocate of free silver could be pos
sessed of anything but debts.
We regret that the editor of the En-
terprise did not have sufficient back
bone to go and ask Mr.. Cleveland to ex-
plain this anomalous state of affairs
He might have learned few things
about that ''wave of prosperity" thai
ne cannot find in the Gold-bug papers
of Missouri. Probably the second meet
ing would not have been n pleasure
either, although Mr.. Cleveland is po-
lite as well as true.
The ignorance of the present condi
ton OF the cattle industry in the IVES
displayed by the editor of the Enter
prise is simply startling. In the firs
place, he does not seem to know that
all thoroughbred stock is on 'free
short horn basis" and has been for
years. Then he does not seem to know
that the price of cattle reached its low
est ebb during the operation of the Nc
Kinley law and has been rising steadily
for the past four years, taking its big.
gest jump over year ago, before Nc
Kinley and Hanna had thought of
launching their prosperity wave. Prob
ably he has not looked at the statistics
which show that we imported nearly
twice as many cattle in 1897 as we did
Ia 1896, and that the importations were
the greatest after the Dingley bill went
into effect, in spite OF the fact that 1t
raised the duty from 20 per cent to 27l
per cent ad valorem.
II the editor of the Enterprise will
take tho time to consult the pages of
some reputable livestock journal, he
win find therein the true cause for the
present.high price of cattle. In the
Breeders Gazette OF Dec. %, 1897, a
copy Of which he can probably get
from Mr.. Duncan, in an article on the
OF Mexican Cattle, he will
ind this statement, "The present high |
price Of cattle is due TO the great short
age of marketable cattle in the former |
great ranges OF the West" He will |
sls0 End that according to the bulletins |
If the Agricultural Department at
Washington, the number of cattle in
he United States decreased 1,244, 211
lead in 1897 and over 10000, 600 head
ince 1880, and the process has been GO
ng on since 1885. The gold standard
EVIL fish which has been squeezing with
IS Shiny tentacles the life blood out OF
very productive industry in the United
'tates, so depressed the value of cattle,
hat their production was no longer
rofitable. Herds were neglected, heif-
RS spayed, and the ranges so depleted
hat now buyers complain that good
attic are not to be found. A local
uyer said the other day that it would
ave been easier to have gotten 10, 600
cad in this county three years ago
nan it is to get 900 now. Is it strange
nat cattle have risen when there are
one to sell? And now that our cattle {
len are beginning to get on their feet :
gain, the editor Of the Enterprise !,
ouid have them kiss the foot that has :
'ampled them down.
AS to where Mr.. Cleveland got his .
oney with which to buy blooded stock, r
lat we do not know. But as he re- !.