El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-29

The four days sale of Hereford cat
tie which closed at the Kansas City
fine stock pavilion Friday afternoon
was in many respects the greatest and
most remarkable in the history of the
Hereford breeding business. Friday
was a day of record smashing. The
COW Carnation, owned by Glenn Graves,
of Bunker Hill. Ind, sold to Jesse e.
Adams of Moweaqua, ILL.,, for $1,000,
the highest price ever paid for a Here
ford COW. Twelve cows, belonging to
Glenn Graves, were sold for an aver
age of s796-the highest average ever
made on Hereford cows at public
sale. The nineteen cows and bulls SOLD
by Mr.. Graves brought an average OF
$5S4.21, this being the highest average
ever brought at public sale of cattle,
excepting at that of F. 3 Hayes In
Chicago last year. The entire 1874 head
sold during the four days brought an
aggregate of s72,935. This. says the
Kansas City Journal, makes an aver
age for the entire sale of .96-un-
ouestionably the best, not only that
duration of the sale and the number
of animals sold considered, ever made
at a Hereford sale in the world.
Fridays most sensational event
was the sale of the COW Carnation. Two
cows and two bulls had been sold.
when the great COW was led in She
was regarded as the prize of the sale.
Sired by Acrobat, out of Erica 81, the
Junior champion of 1899, bought by
Mr. Graves for $1,000 and soon to calve
by service of Mr.. Graves's $500 Dale,
there was small reason for wonder that
half the leading breeders present had
come determined to buy her, if she
could be procured for such a sum as
they could command.
She was started at $500 by S. H. Cod
man, of Wabash, Ind, who bought
more fine COWS during the sale than
any other man. ]. G. Adams, the
youthful millionaire of Moweaqua, ILL.,,
Immediately raised him to $1,000. Thir-
teen, fourteen and fifteen hundred fol-
lowed in quick succession-the latter
amount being offered by T. F. B. Soth
am. Then C. A. Jamison, of Peoria,
ILL.,, the wealthy president of the Riv-
erside Cattle company, who paid $3.50
for Dolly V. at Chicago last fall, taking |
her from Mr.. Adams, who offered s3100 |
-shied his castor into the ring. He |
bid $1,000, and was rewarded with wild
cheering; for this broke the sale rec
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Godman's limit, and the fight narrowed |
to the two rich ones from Illinois. |
Adams bid $500; Jamison raised him
to $4,000. Adams came back with $1,000. |
Jamison offered $4,000, and a wild cheer |
went up, for this broke the worlds !
amount ever paid before being $3.50. |
But Adams refused to be bluffed. He |
raised the bid to $4,000 and stayed in |
the contest until he finally got the |
prize for $1,000.
The sales record on bulls also was
broken Friday afternoon. Duke of
Sunrise, sold by J. C. Adams. brought |
$1,000, being bought by Glenn Graves.
Wednesdays sale, considered alone,
was notable one. Forty-nine head of
cattle, sixteen bulls and thirty three
cows, from the herd of the Riverside
Cattle company, of Ashland, Neb., were
sold for 49, S5, an average of $3S3.16.
The average was disappointment in
some respects. fell 1870 below that
made on the preceding day, when fifty
head of IT r r SOtham'S cattle were |
sold for s21 100. But, nevertheless. the
prices paid were highly satisfactory to
the men who made the Offering and
Hereford breeders generally. Had it
not been for the somewhat better av-
erage at Mr.. Sotham's sale, yesterday
would have broken all past records of
the new fine stock pavilion.
The cattle sold were worth the mon
ey, if purebreds ever get to be. They
were a splendid lot. Most of them were
from the old Earl of Shadeland herd
Here and there was interposed blocky
one of the Riverside companys own 6
breeding; but the pedigree and individ- {
Iality of these latter were of such a
character that they did not lower the s
average From the time the sale COM S
nenced until it closed, not scrubby r
bull, COW, heifer or calf was brought
INTO the ring. The average would have f
,een somewhat higher is some of the I
Younger stuff had been withheld; but t
wen this young stuff, age considered,
old well. v