El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-24
To Be Made At the Carnival
BY the Riverside Here
ford Company.
TO BE PERMANENT
As Soon As All Arrangements
Can Be Perfected. and It
Will Be a Big Ihing
For Il Pas0.

One of the most interesting features
of the Midwinter Carnival will be an
exhibit of fine Hereford stock, con-
sisting of about fifty head of choicest
specimens from the herd of the famous
Riverside Hereford Cattle company, q
Ashland, Neb.
w. J. Cox, manager of this company
for the southwest, has secured quar-
tiers for the cattle in the barns of the
Pomeroy Transfer company, and will
have special arrangements made IN
the barns to receive and Keep them
during the Carnival. He expects them
about the fifth of January.
These cattle will not only be brouht
here for exhibition during the Carni-
val but will be for sale, The cattle
raisers of the southwest and of Mex
leo are realizing more and more every
day the importance of breeding up
their cattle. Mr.. Cox has been ming
ling among them and being aware that
they see the need of this improvement
has arranged to have these fne speci-
mems brought here and placed on sale
for their benefit.
Many cattlemen from the southwest
and Mexico are expected to be in at
tendance at the Carnival and 1t viii
be the best chance many Of them Will
have for a long time to see such fine
cattle as Mr.. Cox will have here. Many
are expected from Mexico, especially
from Chihuahua, to see this exhibit
and very likely to buy choice speci-
mems from it for the purpose Of bet
tering the grade of cattle in that
state.
This will be the first exhibit of real
thoroughbred cattle ever in the south
west. The herd they are frGm is the,
largest and best in the United States
The exhibit will contain bulls. cows
and heifers, direct descendants from
the pedigreed stock of the Riverside,
herd, their ancestors that are now
leaders of the herd being valued by
the company beyond price-they can
not be bought for any amount. The
cattle that will be brought here are
worth from two to five hundred dol
lars per head.
The fine array of bulls now heading
the Riverside herd is such as would
cause any breeder to feel proud. They
are as follows: Imported Admiral
S0.079; Imported Roseberry 30 ,1s8;
Imported Viscount Rupert 1O3 SCI;
Imported Pembridge 7e.o4e; Thickset
63 .685; purchased at a public sale III
Kansas City last year for $500. the
highest price ever paid for a bul1 at
an auction; Philip e1.741: Rose Chief
6S, S,945; Alger $3.50; Boabdil T1,2s0;
Lord Briton End S3,1s4: Festive Briton
81, ,1s2; Washable 7S,S5s; Equity D.-
S33; william e3,76s; Reseland 4th
81 ,592; Buster 6s.711, and Gay Lad
Sc, TO.
Some Of the fine cows now In the
herd are the following imported ones:
Queen Quarantine 75.127, COW with a
rare combination of Horace and Lord
Wilton Blood; Chance S0,1O5, an off,
spring of the famous Maidstone 79, 100; ;.
CoQuette so. .112, sired by Orlando 79,-
294. dam Coquette; Bellona 3rd 50. .173: :
Coquettina S0.11s; My Lady s2.222. and
sixty-six head of fine females purchas-
ed in one lot from an Independence,
Mo-, cattleman.
The above named are only a few of
the thoroughbred bulls and cows as
the herd now numbers nearly 1,a08.
all pure bred Herefords, about six
hundred of which are breeding cows.
The home of this herd is located near
Ashland. Neb., on the banks of the
beautiful Platte river, and consists of
4, 200 acres Of as beautiful and produe-
tive ground as one could wish to see.
About 1900 acres are under cultiva-
tion and the balance is devoted to pas
ture and hay land. Additional lands
are being purchased.
The bringing of the cattle here by
ts (COntinuod IN Fourth PapoN