El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-27

high, TO weigh 900 to 400 pounds: to
sro5 IL 800 or better With short sea-
sons haodling, and to road ten miles
an hour for half a day, and go the
other Fifty miles after dinner, with
pleasure and com fort to his driver and
comparative ease 10 himself. We can
breed him TO com biue the qualities of
size, style, all around nigh action, and
! Just tne speed that 1t desired in the
Ideal carriage team, fer which the de-
mad Is already greatly 10 excess
of the supply at prices ranging from
| $500 to $4,000. We can breed him to
trot in 2:20, 2:l0, BOB, and presently in
2.minutes, aud ne will be quick sale at
from 81 900 10 $50 900, with two or
more men wanting to buy every one
of this character that is offered, for
there is pile of mouey to be won by
any troJter that is good in his class,
and for the best outclassed trotters
wealthy gentlemen Will pay almost q
fabulous price TO drive away business
cares, while they Outstep friendly
rival in 2-minuse brush on the great
speedwa now being built IN all of
our large cities. A few years ago we
had one Mr.. Bonner, and one Mr.. Van
derbiit who were able and willing to
pay $40, 900 for Maud S. or Sunol,
solely for road use; today we have
thousands of such men. Our country
Ia richer than any otner country that
the world has ever known; we do
things on a larger scale than ever be-
fore, and it would not surprise me to
see the best colts now living bring
higher prices than the best sold for in
the boom days of 1890, when promis-
log yearlings brought as much As $40, =
600, brood mares sold as high as $15,-
600. and Sl25, 900 was paid for Arion +,
the precocious son of the mighty Elec-
tiOneer. There are at present, three
million fewer horses in the United
States than there we're in 1890 and over
500, 900 more in use. Think of these
conditions. Our population is l5,OO0,
900 greater: our business of every cha
racter wonderfully expanded: all the
world Is wanting our horses, and al
most no one ia raising them. The very
great &C rcity is now being realized,
and prices are rapidly advancing.
Seven hundred trotting bred horses,
ranging in age from six months to ten
years were sold within q week at auc
ton in New York in December for an
average of about five hundred dollars
each. These same horses would not
have brought an average of three hun
dred one year ago. Two young stall
S25 900 respectively, and Mr.. Marcus
Daily has just paid S39, 900 for thirteen
extra we'll bred trotting mares. The
upward movement has begun.
The csttlemen of the United States
have passed through a like experience:
in the early eighties first class stock on
the ranges were worth twenty to
twenty-five dollars all round and every
body was raising them: 10 the early
nineties the same class of cattle we're
only worth five to eight dollars all
and almost everybody quit
them: today they are sgain
worth twenty to twenty five dollars
and may probably 60 higher. In the
periods of depression YOU sold your fat
cows. speyed your heifers, and only
stayed in the cattle business because
you could not get out of it. But in
the past five or six years the admitted
scarcity Oh the one hand and the
improved character Of the stock On
the other have made you rich beyond
degree. The horse business of today
is where the cattle business was six