Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-14
HORSE TRADE
IS BOOMING
CONTINUED DEMAND IN THE
EAST FOR MONTANA RANGE
ANIMALS.
BRING GOOD PRICES
... AT PUBLIC AUCTION.
from SIS to $35 a Head in Lots of
twenty-five at Sioux City Sale
The Prospects Bright.

II 1ItIe Is apparently no lQQlcdLlOn Oh a |
let-up in the demand for western range
pendent. All through the spring buyers
range horses for the farmers in the east.
IT was thought that last month would see
the end of the rush. but such has not been
.the case. 1t still continues, and in all the
Icounties where there are any number of
range horses the work of gathering them
continues, and the shipments go on. That
Montana. stin has a large number of the
animals is shown by the returns now being
made to the state boad of equalization by
as good next year as it has been this, there
will be a big falling off in the total Of that
class of live stock.
upon the range animals by the assessors
is around $40, down in Dawson county the
more than the buyers for the eastern mar
ket will as a rule pay for them, unless they
are unusually we'll bred. There is not much
money in the prices now paid for the
horses to the owners, but it is away ahead
Of no market at all; Many big bands have
s Seen a,i SOLD aro9 during En the pas y SIX m ago fna at
were not worth their freight charges to
st. Paul. In fact, so low. did the price fall
the railroads of Montana refused to carry
them unless the freight charges were paid
in advance or well guaranteed.
| The fear that the automobile and the
bicycle would kill the horse raising bust
ness has been proved to be utterly ground
i and pr The waEs IN IN 81 sont bhAilifP rlaa have W f been
demand for horses. While some Of the
Africa for remounts for the English troops.
not a great many Of them have gone.
That is because they have been unbroken;
at once put into service, but the range
horse has taken the place Of the horse
3 Hnitea al st s9ee q En ses,n f has ha adom ma my
buyers in the east and middle west secur-
ing desirable animals. The prices. paid
4, yrYoro rro@ ava +1o fn 49,, 1,rc Io va said To
replace these farm animals and to carry
on the work of the place, the range horse
has come IN GOOD play; t has been found
wiry animal. and when put into a pillow
or on a heavy wagon with an old farm
BE in short order. and as soon as the
newness wore off he made a good, SER
viceable animal. That is what has made
range animal. And as the call for horses
from all of the military establishments
' sorae e9 Reans 81. the Wh demand ! fa f9p the can nan aeil
q horse for $3.50 and replace, him with one
for $40 that will answer his purpose. he
is making money. and he is going to keep
doing So. Another factor that will keer
the demand good is that the supply in the
east will not be equal to the demand FOL
several years, and the west must supply
the shortage. The better animals Mon,
tana can send to meet that demand the
better will be the returns, as it takes nc
more to raise a good horse than it does a
have horses, and as long as this mountain
count can do SO, it will be called upon.
William F. Cody (Buffalo Bid has been
buying horses largely the past year, and
putting them on the range in the Big Horn
country. He has the ideal horse ranch OF
the west, and he is of the opinion that the
horse raising industry for the next II
years will be the most profitable branch OF
live stock husbandry.
Some Idea of the demand for range
Northern railroad alone has shipped east
over its line this year over 10,OO0 head OF
range horses. The Northern Pacific has
not furnished any figures of it's shipments
but 1t has handled equally as many. The
Union Pacific has also carried thousands
the aHges in southern Montana furnish
ing many train loads.
An illustration Of the way the horses are
sold in the east is an account of the dis
posal of a recent shipment that went to
Sioux City. A local stock paper, In describ-
ing the sale, says:
"At the rate of one horse a second, 5.754
wild horses from Oregon. Idaho. Nevada
stock yards, the largest and fastest trans.
action of the kind ever recorded. Illinois
Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin,, Ohio ant
Texas buyers were present, as well al
those from Iowa, South Dakota and Ne
braska. The horses, huddled together
covered twenty acres. They were sold ir
lunches Ct twenty-five or more. bring
animals had ever known saddle or harness
This sale is the second of it's kind within
60 days, but 1t eclipsed the other in the
number sold and the prices obtained. Thu
six carloads of Oregon horses sold were
the first from the Pacific coast that have
been brought as far east as the Missouri
river in large LOTS