The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-18

a hundred or so Of yours. We fatten
your cattle on our alfalfa and corn and
Send EN- up; Wen fatten EN-. Come up
yourselves and Wen fatten you. toe.
! And your horses-we have horses that We
( can bring down to you and sell TO you
for $500 or Sla.0Go. That fine black
team we saw out there on the street
/ beautiful animals they wer--we can send
/ you down Just as good ones. and we hope
| before long TO send you many times as
! many. Why the fastest horses that the
/ world base ever produced, save one,
were born and raised II Wichita Kan"
I The speaker paused. as the delegates
| looked incredulously at each other, then
! he continued: Yes. sir; I mean it; those
/ two Kansas horses are the kings OF the
world-Patohen and Gentry" 4 fraction
Of a second for it to dawn upon them.
! and then u loud cheer flashed up, long
/ continuing. in Acknowledgements Of the
/ truth Of the statement.
/ The speaker praised Kansas 70 the
! skies, in a pleasant. wholesouled stock
/ man way. and here ended his entirely
! extemp remarks amaid loud
/ cheers.
! Oklahoma was represented by that a.
minutive though immensely good-natured
/ individual. W. Z. Bolton Of Woodward,
/ who spoke to the convention as follows:
/ Mr. President. Delegates and Guests Of
/ the National Live Stock Association. in
| convention assembled.
! Again it is my pleasure 70 appeear be-
| fore you and hold up the banner upon
| which is indelibly written the past. pres
/ ent and future prosperity Of the i've
| stock industry in Oklahoma.
Last year severe storms got across the
| quarantine line as fixed by the weather
clerk in Washington, and God Almighty
in Heaven. and swept over che valleys
and prairies of western Oklahoma, and
caught the imported bovine-importsd
from the plains Of western Texas and ore
mesas Of New Mexico and Arizona, and
induced few of them TO lie down in our
greer. pastures. and thus save their own
ers from excessive freight charges and
renewal of his loan-but these instances
are rare
on the other hand. the cowman who
feared not storms and insistedon feed
ing we'll before the cold weather came. is
enjoying the delights OF existence and
clipping a few coupons Of his own occa-
sion2iiy.
The present winer. so far. has been
corner Clipped of the sunny side OF The
Angels summer resort In aradise. and
has the brand Of Oklahoma burned on
both sides OF it, and bears the earmarks
Of a climate not found anywhere out
side of our beautiful territory. soon TO be
a. state The tee man has already con-
tracted for the manufactured article for
his next summers supply, and the coal
trust has met a competitor In the product
of the surface mines found all over the
cattle district, the latter being all that
has been found necessary IN such mild
winter. with such conditions the live
stock on the range are in prime season
condition and win go on grass in the
spring much earlier than usual You VIII
see fat grass beef almost a month earlier
from Oklahoma at the markets, with a
continuance OF present conditions until
spring.
The growth Of the livestock industry
I'm Oklahoma IS satisfactory in the ex-
IRENE. Our governor in hts annual report
recently submitted TO congress Gays:
While all branches OF agriculture are
conducted. perhaps as successfully and
as proftably in Oklahoma as elsewhere.
the handling Of livestock offers special
Inducements. and By reason Of favorable
conditions exciting here, should prove re-
munerative even when Unprodtaole n
other localities. The short winters. the
Iuxurfant growth OF gr5@ses pasturage
upon which stock may be grazed almost
the entire year. an abundance q water,
and a supply Of all the grains grown in
4g..ssf fsr.r rfIH ton
for the growth and development. al
minimum cost, Of livestock or superior
quality. The livestock interests 81 Ok
lahorna are very large and the amount
Of money invested therein increases ev-
cry year"
The summary of the assessors records .
show that Oklahoma last year reported
for taxation 9s00o9 head ~ cattle. 1881
head % horses. HIaI head VI mules,
652 head Of sheep and 23stss mead ~
swine. ma king a total ~ l5ls@Is- Add +.
head II cattIeee lenga gedataosi hr1inggnu /.
70 this num5e- fully oue-hslf million .
head q cattle grazsd In tran herds ami 3
we have q total %, over -.0eiHs,8 head %
livestock bringing retnruz - the ranch .
man and the stock farmer % The voting
heath1est most ~ pereus common
wealth Ia al, these United states q Am +
erica and ire Isian5 ot Iuzgu.
By Tar The mos iraPartaut branch - .
the livestock industry l1 okiaaouza ls .
cattla-rsislnE- Owing ~ fle slgit,le -
western Oklahoma. 8izeass germs - any
nature rarely end lo1zemonf- Tee main
.eua1ce - TIE feSeraI anf territorial
quarantine fires "a largely dee - fhe
rvatchsul care - tne OKLAHOMA livestock
association. =a1ea uuube-z within 81
u1eHa1ers- hol3lrgE. cattle - 80 aETfs-
gate sal re exteadIrr fsas a
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