The Dickinson press., 1902-08-16
Ranch Talk

In breeding CATTLE why not breed the
kind that always tops the beef market?
Full blood yearling and 2-year old Aber.
deem Angns bulls for sale. A. c. Nc
Gillivray, Dickinson or Bismarck, N. D.
7-Io-tf
c. X. Pendergast and w. B. Howe
got about 90 head of steers and cows
from w. A. Beck's herd. They expect
to close for about $4,000 worth more
this week, which will make $4,000 that
they have invested in cattle this month.
They don't expect to market their cattle
until the first of next month.
!. Nollet is pleased with his recent
cattle sale. His steers nettcd him S86. 50
per head. Last spring Mr.. Nollet offered
to take $4,000 for his stock and ranch at
Sentinel Butte, but he is glad now that
no one accepted his offer for he is $4,000
to $4,000 better off.
Allenberg & Co. report the following
sales for l. Nollet of Sentinel Butte:-2o
steers. 1890 weight, at so.75; 10 cows
s5.25, 2 COWS $3.50 and 5 COW 81.
J.. NJ. Taft will have 7 cars of cattle for
marke, on the list Of Sept.
L. F. Crawford got SAYS per W for
his heifers. He put the stock in last fall
and finds the investment has been prof.
liable.
Ed. Aughnay is shipping a Car OF
horses east which he bought west a short
time ago.
The Current steers, IS head of 3.year-
Odds, sold at 81 per cwt. and averaged
1900, making a gross price of nearly SOL
per head. There we're a few cut-backs.
The PRESS stated last week that these
cattle we're bought at $50 per head, but
we understand now that the price was
SOS.
Peter Brown has bought "a cars of
cattle which he expects to ship on the
22nd.
Sixty of the d. Anken cattle, IIo2
weight, sold last week at s4.75 and 1885
steers sold at s6.25.
Aug. II sales: Henry Bradamier 81
HOLSTERS s6.95, IL 1I2o-steers s4.75,
COWS 81 to S4.75; Fred Paduch u
ooS-stcers S5.75, " 1o73-steers $50;
d. b. Zimmerman IS I248-steers So.2c
and IS I24o-cows $3.50; Henry Myran IS
11I7-steers ss.75 and IL Io6S-cows $ s.
Johnson 4 johnson, owners of the Bel
lows ranch, recently shipped in some
fine Iowa cattle. They have two cars
more to bring out.
Chicago, Aug. 6.-This was the high
!, day of the year for both native and
western cattle. Natives touched the
, $500 mark, the highest in twenty years
and western reached S7.I5, the highest
ever paid for cattle of that class. There
were four cars of natives which brought
$500. Three cars of I5o5-lb. Shorthorn
steers were shipped by H. H. Harris &
Son of Champaign, ILL.,, and IS head were
sent in by A. w. Bragg Of Tuscola. The
western rangers at s7.I5 were shipped
by the Conrad-Price Cattle company oI
!, Chinook, Mont. The load of 10 head
averaged 1882 lbs. The highest previous
!, price ever paid for western range cattle
in August was SOLO in 1882. The lowes
, top for August was $685. in 1887.
Aug IS shipments: W. L. Richard:
t 10 cars, W. A. Kirby /, Mark and S. S
Sutherland and Geo. Mcclellan 3, E. F
Messersmith 4, R. Finger 1, J~efferes &
Higgins 6, d. h. Zimmerman l, A.
Martin at Sentinel Butte E, and D. An
. ken s at Hebron. Sheep:-L. Christen
: sen at Bclfeld 3 cars, r. J. Fleck a
, Richardson l..
On the 2lst w. T. Moore and other:
will ship cattle from Glen Ullin. Or
the 22d H. J. Schultz will ship two car:
of cattle from Belield, Ben Singletary 2
c. Miller l, Wyman 2, ALT White 3 a
Dickinson and w. L. Richards 10 anc
VIM. Kennedy 4. MIR. Richards alst
has 8 cars Of sheep booked for the 18TH
and P. B. Moss a 25.car shipment.
On the 10th Mr.. Richards is book ee
for 10 cars of cattle, Koesel & Co. o
. Gladstone g., ]. E. Phelan IL cars at same
place. Beisigl Bros. are booked for II
cars of cattle at Sims on the 22d and OF
. the 23d Eaton Bros. are booked for a 2
car shipment of horses at Medora. NJ
Sutherland ships a car of horses on thu
18TH. James Converse is shipping
y trainloads, of IS cars each, Friday, Sat,
and Sunday.
Will Clark, who recently brought ir
| 100 horses from Belle Fourche, sold one
. car to Nat Brady and the colts to Johr
E Conway and shipped the balance, 3 cars
on Friday. He was accompanied by
Mr.. Brady with a shipment af 6 cars
( 5 cars of w S horses-and by Mr.. Con
+ way, who had 3 loads of Billings horse:
y en- route to Wisconsin.
Friday, Aug. IS. was the first big ship
ment day of the season at Dickinson
One of the Converse herds IS cars
. Will DC III tOudy anu dnotncl vi ouaud!
Zimmerman 4 Redmond shipped Il
cars of mutton sheep Thursday morning
. On Monday F. E. Morgan sold hi:
= = mutton sheep in Chicago at 1885. They
averaged nearly 116 lbs. Pete Brown,
, who had also held his sheep over from
last week, sold two cars at $500. They
averaged lo4 lbs. Messrs. Morgan and
: Brown were due on the Chicago market
last week, but held back on account oil
the low condition Of the market.
For Sale