Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-04
To the KlOndike FIR I'M the Bit.
ter Root Valley
AN EXTENSIVE DEALER
Is Now In the City After Making
Large Purchases--Enorm0us
Profit in the Business.

G.. ". ~hebo Of Dawson City. the larg-
est cattle shipper in Alaska. is in the city
experimenting the shipment of a train
load of cattle out of 500 head which he has
purchased for the Klondike trade from
Walker e. Bielenberg. The cattle are from
the Pig Hole country and consist OF four
year old steers and over, that will aver"
age over 400 pounds apiece. Messrs. The
DO, Walker. B~ielenberg and others who
have seen the cattle claim it is n of the
best bands Of cattle ever sold in America
without any exception. In addition to the
500 head sold to Mr.. Thebo 400 head were
sold to the Pacific Meat Co., Of Tacoma.
making IN aggregate of about 1000 head
of beef cattle, equal in fairness and size
to a small band Of stall fed prize cattle
often found In the east. The exact pur-
chase price is unknown, but it is some-
where in the n~eighborhood Of $65, 900. Mr..
Thebo will make two shipments of his
band to Alaska: one on next Sunday.
May Z and the other about the middle of
July. The Pacific Meat Co., will ship a
train load on Saturday which will make
the third train lead for them this spring,
6AlO Ill liz GIiC SAIPpI~ oili
the Big Hole. Mr.. Thebo shipped a car
load from this point to Alaska last year.
He will feed his cattle at Topinish. WASH
ington until about u n list. when he will
charter a ship ard put them aboard for
transportation at a cost of about $50 a
head and Ian at some available point
near Skagway. The trip overland will
consume six weeks. The cattle will be
h1fnhQrQd for haSf q G soon q G rhay- Az.
rive. for the reason that the best beef
cattle shrink on such a trip and the grass
is not good around Dawson on which to
keep cattle. The second train load will
reach Dawson during September and will
be slaughtered at once and Quartered with
the hides on as that helps to keep the
meat from drying up during the long win
ter months. Mr.. Thebo says they have
fresh meats in Alaska the year around.
Side meat sedls for % cents per pound
and steaks at so cents. Pork and mutton
Is also to be had there and some veal
Live hogs are brought up the river on
boats and sheep are driven across the
country the same as cattle. He is a
member Of a London company ard has
just returned from across the ocean. He
left Dawson City. Jan. %, sailed from
New York March l, spent the greater par.
Of a month in London, Paris and Liver
pool, SAILING from the latter place April
8. Arriving in New York he went direct
to Seattle and then back to the Big Hole
country, spent several days there pur-
chasing his cattle on the Bell
enberg n and is now in Anaconda
Seady to ship next Saturday.
During the past three days he rode
around in a sleigh over the Big Hole
country, which he pronounces to be this
spring the nearest approach to Klondike
Of anything he ever saw.
Nick Beilenberg Of Deer Lodge, Of thu
firm Of Walker & Beilenberg, from whom
he purchased the cattle, is in town will
him. One is the cattle king Of Dee
Lodge and tn other the cattle king O.
Alaska. Mr.. Walker and VIM. Daugh
try, he latter representing the Pacif,
Meat Co., are on the way in with the cat
tie purchased from Mr.. Daughtry's firm.