The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-10
WAS A GREAT SALE.
The Sale of the e. Mark Live Stock
Co. Last Saturday Was a
Great Success.

Over Three Car Loads of Horses and
the Herd of Galloway Cattle
Were Disposed Of.
Saturday was a big day for Prince
ton, and the attraction was the open
ing spring sale of the E. Mark Live
Stock Co: This sale was advertised as
big one and it was no disappointment
to several hundred people who at
tended it. Mark had secured a lot of
good horses and live stock for the sale,
and there is no denying the fact that
VIM. Holland, as auctiOneer, was some
what of an attraction himself. Holland
halls from Waterloo, Iowa, and is one
of the best live stock auctioneers in
the northwest. He has sold thousands
of head of horses and cattle through
out Iowa and Minnesota, and his swift
gated and musical voice has knocked
down live stock to the value of thou
sands of dollars. He is the auctioneer
for all the big horse sales at south St.
Paul, and Midway, and sells occasion
ally at Sioux City and other points.
When he stepped into the box after
dinner he put the crowd in the best of
humor in a minute or two. He said
that men attend auctions for three
reasons, one of which was to see what
the auctioneer looked like, and getting
little bit personal he said that if any
man who sized him up did not think it
was worth dollar he could have the
money, and he held out a silver dollar
and inquired ''are you imp Holland
had no sooner held out the coin than
John Louder walked up and took the
money. The laugh was on the auc-
tioneer but he would gladly drop dol
lar any day for an incident of this
kind.
He started in to sell horses and sue
ceeded in very short time in closing
out car load, besides good many
that were entered by private parties.
Prices ranged all the way from SIS to
1925, and included horses of all kinds
from the big drafter down to the small
pony and every day work horse.
Mark would no sooner post the crowd
on the horse than Holland would have
a bid and would rapidly cry the same
up by dollars and two-ffties and be-
fore the crowd realized it he would sell
the animal. On several occasions he
gladdened the heart of successful bid
ders by tossing them a bonus of a dol
lar or half dollar. ''You are pretty
good fellow, here, take :his," he said
to young man to whom he sold a
horse, and he handed him coin. To
another he said, Here is forty cents,
it's all the change I have, and I will
owe you ten cents" At another time
he presented buyer with his photo
graph, remarking that he had no
money, but would willingly part with
his picture, and the buyer put it in his
pocket and took it home as souvenir
of the sale.
''That man down there with spinage
on his chin bought the horse" said
Holland in describing certain buyer.
bring on that filly," be cried at an
other time as he waited with some i'm
patience for a small farm horse which
some farmer had for the sale.
After Holland had sold big string
of horses out of the barns a load of
good drivers and farm horses which he
had shipped from Iowa for the sale ar
rived on the afternoon freight and
were brought into the ring for i'm
mediate sale, and pair of drivers and
a mare had been sold when rain put an
end to the auction. The horses were
put in the barn and were disposed of at
private sale in a short time.
There were good many buyers
from outside points at the sale as we'll
as large number of farmers from the
surrounding country. There were
about seventy-fve head of horses sold
at the sale. Among the buyers we're:
J. G. Cliff of Oskaloosa, Iowa, one of the
heaviest shippers of horses in the
west; H. Schraum of Sandstone, who
bought twenty head of Galloways, and
also 100 head of young stock to place
on large ranch which he is opening
up in Pine county; Cloquet Lumber
Co., who took few heavy horses; Gus
Parent of Parent Station; Andrew
Kramer of St. Cloud; w. r. Williams