El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-20
WILD HORSES OF THE WEST
Few Years Ago Worthless, the Pest of the Prairie,
Now Bringing His Price In Any Market.

with cheaper horses. This search Tor
horses will continue: the sales will be
numerous from now because there IL a
shortage of horses all through the
Eastern aud the Middle states, and
because theEnglish government wants
more.
One of my neighbors suddenly lost
or of his large gray carriage horses re-
Gently; he found one from Montana
which matched him thoroughly in gait,
o.. and style and 1,250-pound DObbin
now as proud and happy as a dumb
animal can possibly be, together with
his mate dIawing his mistress in vic
toris or brougham shopping and on
pleasur, excursions.
D,bbin is destined to serve in various
capacities over all our land. The North
ern Pacific Railway company is sending
buyers TO the ranches in Mon tana, WyO-
ming, Idaho, Washington and Ore on to
bring more horses to the auction sales,
and If the owners will accept reason
able prices hundreds of thousands of
hoses will be brought East and cash
from the East will be left in the West
In exchange for them.
The auctions at South St Paul are
conducted in an honest, upright and
b lsiness- like manner. A ring is prepar-
ed for buyers which has q seating cap
a;ity nearly equal to that of a circus.
The horses are cut out and assorted Ia
carload lots before tie sale takes
place, each bunch being kept in wings
and aileyways convenient to run into
the sales ring at q moments notice. A
@ srload is put up, and the auctiOneer
sells almost in a minute from the time
it is run in, each buyer present hsv-
ing an opportunity TO bid, but COM
PEELED to do so on the jump.
THE DAY OF THE WESTERN HORSE.
Now the western horse is coming in
for its share of admiration. Hereto
fore it was the ''measly thing" Now
it is different-shey are lime lot of
western horses" with "plenty of
bone" some splendid bays and fine
roans,'' well gsitsd," etc. 1t is
praised all round by the farmers and
horsemeu who attend the sales, and
If you could hear the auctioneer you
would think there never was any other
furnish the buyer with ''tiptop bay"
ga beauty of black, - 81 gray with
good pair Of eyes and splendid bone,"
"a white with fine shoulders and broad
bsck"-look at him now! Isn't he
beauty? He can furnish you q black
horse with white eyes, or q white
horse with black eyes, just az you
please. In d J'HS NC Gu TO
the ring carload of stripes, checks,
plaids, circus herses, or horses of any
color in the nbow.
The writer attended one of the que
tion sales when 900 horses were sold
in carload lots in about four hours. He
can testify to the aucioneer's state
meat in this respect. There were
horses OF nearly every size; and as for
color, nearly every shade found in the
windows of one of our fashionable dry
goods stores.
TOO GOOD TO EAT.
It has been demonstrated that the
range horse, properly broken, is gen.
tie as any horse in the world. One
can see them about our streets every
day. The delivery boy scarcely ever
stops to tie them: they are perfectly
quiet until they hear bis voice again,
or the noise of the crack of his ship
l predict IL at Dobbin of the range will
never again serve to tickle the palate
of the French and German connoisseur,