The Dickinson press., 1899-04-22
Saturday, April ~, is99
StoCkmen Meet.
Eighth Annual Meeting. Dan Manning
Elected President, W. L. Richards
Reflected Secretary.

On Tuesday, April II, the Sth annual
meeting Of the Live Stock Association of
North Dakota was held in Dickinson.
Owing to high water and the hard travel
ing the attendance was not as large as it
otherwise would have have been. How
ever there was a fair attendance and the
afternoon session proved to be very in
tercsting and profitable.
The meeting was convened at the court
house at a few minutes after 10 o'clock a.
m. President w. 6. Bader was absent
and Vice President H. L. Dickinson &C.
cupied the chair. In the absence of w.
L. Richards, Guy Dickinson acted as
secretary.
After roll call the minutes of the last
meeting were read and approved.
appointed +. S. Underhill, c. c. Mead
and Howard Eaton a committee to select
officers for and an executive committee for
the ensuing year and submit their report
at the afternoon session.
The remainder of the morning was ia
ken up in an informal way.
Robert Rantoul, division freight agent
of the n. p, was called upon to explain
reduction in stock freight rates of which
there had been some talk. He stated
that there was little change except in the
spring when they made their usual IS per
cent reduction from Eastern terminals TO
{1,e rn~{,~~ -, $50 -,~-n for k1c
purpose of encouraging those who desired
to stock up their ranches a little. Mr..
Rantoul said that there were a great
many small cattlemen in Western North
Dakota who wanted tobuy from 50 to 100
head of stockers and this rate was of
special advantage to such. Mr.. Rantoul
continued by saving that the little cattle
men OF today were the coming shippers
of this section, and hat in a very few.
years Dickinson, the largest cattle ship.
ping point on the line of N. P, would
ship moro cars Of cattle than it had ever
done during the most balmy days of the
big cattlemen. ! A>aas
Col. Gould spoke in his poetical style
and incidentally remarked that the Bur.
lington wa prepared to take care of all
the business it could get.
Col. Malone, Of the Milwaukee, said he
-@asin Dickinson in the eighties when the
first car of cattle was loaded for market
He had watched the growth Of the stock
interest hcre-now and for a number Of
years past, thclargest live stock shipping
point on the N. P.-and now saw the full.
fillment of predictions he had made years
ago, viz, thatthe large cattle outfits would
give way to the many little one In the
early eighties Col. Malone stated thai
Billings was the largest cattle shipping
point on the NJ p, but now the country
tributary thereto was nearly all occupied
by sheepmen. Conditions at Dickinson
however, were different and there woule
always be a larger number of people
raising cattle than sheep.
Hi L. Keenan,, brother of the big Chi
cago commission man, representing the
! B.& n, spoke briefly.
Geo. F. Wright was called upon t
speak for the Twin City Stock Yard:
The Transfer Co. have acquired contro
of the Twin City Stock Yards propert
: and are about to expend $4,000 to sloc
j 900 in Improvements which will max
them the finest feeding yards in tn
Northwest. Mr.. Wright did not claim
d market for the Twin City Stock Yard
4 but he did claim the finest yard f%acilitie
to be found anywhere, accessible to 81
of the leading roads. For sheep feedin
q these yards are also unsurpassed, havin
good sheds, on high dry land, we'll she
tered by oak forests.
MI. Openheimer, of the Great Western
spoke briefly.
IS w. S. Seavey, general agent for tt
Thiel Detective Service Co., Denve
Colorado, spoke for a few minutes.
m E. G.. Jaffray, Ro senbaum Bro
%H representative, was called upon for a fe
remarks,
Somebody inquired about the s. te
minal charges at Chicago and there W
an awful silence until one representa-