The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-10-19
THE BOERS
ARE PREPARING TO CULTIVATE
THEIR LANDS.
Buying Mulss--1 900 Head Shipped
to South Africa from Missouri
During the war-They Cap
tured Their Mules from
the British.

Kansas City Star.
/ When the Boer war ended and peace
was declared the Kansas City mule deal-
ers thought they had sold their last load
of mules for South Africa. They did not
expect to see much more British golu
except what the Indian Government
might leave here until King Edward
Government got into new troubles; But
they have beer agreeably surprised. the
Beers are now buying mules In kans Is
City.
ain was buying mules and shipping the II
to South Africa for war purposes the
Beers were not asleep. Occasionally they
would stsGupede the mules of provision
train and Il not infrequently happened
that the train as we'll as the mules fell
into Boer hands. II was no secret while
the war was on, that only for the habit
the Beers had Of taking the British
not have been 80 lively as it was. 1t is
said that at one time there were as many
Missouri mules In the hands Of the Beers
as the British had, though 1t was the
British who did the buying.
The Beers found the Missouri mule o
pretty good animal to deal with. He
was sure footed, faithful, reliable enough
when duly watched, little obstinate
perhaps, but tough as iron and q ready
feeder on supplies that horse wouli
starve to death trying to live on. He
made his own way IN the world and
built up his own reputation, having gone
l INTO u now country WIN nOUOuy 10 NOuC y
for him and under circumstances that
were not Calculated to make him pop l.
lar II he did not really make good. 7"
The Beers liked the Missouri mule. They
OF excellence and. summing up. every
thing, they pronounced him good.
The British Government gave the Beers
el5. 100000 with which to restock their
chance to get mules by the old method
they wanted to buy them. Accordingly
q Boer speculator who had money came
to the United States to buy various
he found a Yankee with the trading in
stinct we'll developed. and one of the
hrst things they decided to do was to
send a ship load Of mules to the Trans
wanted to get them where the British
bought theirs so they Would be sure of
getting the same kind OF mules. Ac-
cordingly he came to Kansas City AMI
ton arlington Mule Company 1000 Mis-
souri, mules. They were persuaded to
take better mules thar the British bought
at somewhat higher prices. The mules
have been sent South preparatory to
80 we are still getting British gold"
]. D. Guy ton said last night. ut always
looked pretty good to us and We wee
oSh Amen s s @a ssna R soass e
good. We refused $40 a head for
bunch of $50 mules this week, so. yo1
can ace that mules are no drug on the
market now. The cotton trade will open
up In a few weeks and then mule deal
ers will be busy all the. time. We are
getting ready for big business at homo,
but II the Beers want any more of our
mules we will be glad to sell them"
The mule Is a product of Southern Flu
rope and is not well known in the north.
The Beers, II seems, did not know much
about him until their war with the Brit
ish. The British common soldiers SEEM
ed incapable OF understanding what re-.
lationship the mule has to the horse
fam