Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-13
ROLLING IN WEALTH.
Cattle Business I'm south Dakota
BETTER Than nm Alaska Gold Mine.

Cattle Business In south Dakota
Better Than nm Alaska Gold Mine.
Nothing could emphasize the wonder
full possibilities of the South Dakota
cattle ranges more han do the ship
ments of cattle recently made from
Chamberlain, and it Is doubtful IL more
remarkable results have ever been at
tanned In any legitimate line of indus
try. 1t appears almost incredible that
men with comparatively no capital to
begin with could, in a dozen years or
so, acquire property that yields a net
yearly income OF from $685. 900 TO 500
000, and yet the cattle ranges of South
Dakota contain many such.
Among the most successful of the
cattlemen, three were represented in
the shipments from Chamberlain last
week, in the persons of Corbin Morris,
Charles X. Howard and Mike Quinn.
The punches marketed by each of these
gentlemen We're about equal in VALUE,
and represent at least $40, 900, and each
OF them win make additional shipments
yet this season..
With but 100 head or so, Mike Quinn
embarked in the cattle business twelve
years ago. and IL is now estimated that
he annually markets $4,000 worth OF
cattle. and yet has a bunch of 5000
feeders on his range
The record OF C. X. Howard is pretty
generally known. for he has. for a long
period of years been a conspicuous fig
ure IN the Northwest. About 1856 he
failed in business for about 800. 900. but
he etained the faith OF his creditors,
who staked him on a modest scale in
the cattle business. Their faith was
not misplaced, and he is now able to
read his title clear and ship about s75,-
900 worth of cattle yearly, anad also
retain a large bunch of feeders on the
ranges.
Corbin Morris Is another OF the living
examples of what energy and strict APP
plication TO business can accomplish on
South Dakota's prairies. His shipments
are estimated at 500. 900 yearly, and yet
he began in the business working for
others until he had accumulated suff-
cient capital to go 1t on his w hook.
To-day he has one OF the largest herds
OF cattle that roams the prairies.
These successes are remarkable, and
yet they are in no sense exceptions.
The prairies are covered with men who
hh NuAAH lft pdSl ten ytdES, IToTn
very modest beginnings I'm many cases,
gathered together herds of cattle or
sheep, which, IL sold, would provide
the most generous of completeness. I.
w. Seaman. Colin Macbeth, j. O.. Ard
erson. William Dent, Henry & Young,
Kaufman & Winter, w. w. Anderson.
and hosts OF others, have become sub
stantial capitalists through the instru-
,.nntn1fNxr "a 49, - So
is it remarkable in one sense that the
industry should yield such substantial
returns, and that there are no failures
TO be recorded among those who have
engaged In the business, for in no other
place In the world are the conditions
more ideal for cattle raising thai on
the prafries of Western South Dakota.
The grasses are, according to scientific
tests In several of the agricultural col
ieges of the West, the most nutritious
OF any of the wild grasses OF the coun-
try, while water is abundantly supplied
In the numerous streams or through the
agency OF dams which hold the surface
water. The cattle, too. range upon the
p~rairies throughout the entire winter.
and n instance Is, indeed, rare. when
hay or shelter have been necessary.
n shipping season now commenced
promises to be notable in the sense thai
more South Dakota stock will be placed
upon the market than during any other
season in the history of the state. Sew
eral causes contribute to this result.
During h past season there has been
an immense expansion Of the industry.
The total number of cattle upon the
ranges has Increased like magic. and
there is a general feeling that the range
Is gradually becoming overstocked.
The high prices, too, have an influence
upon shipments. and il IS stated that
the value of shipments from Western
South Dakota alone will this year ex-
coed the sum of SO 900. 900.
Cattle raising in South Dakota Is no
longer an infant industry.