The Dickinson press., 1902-10-18
Ranch Talk

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price Of sIo5.3o per head. Mr.. Harkins'
other native steers, 10, averaging 1873
pounds, sold at SOLO. Paris & Co. made
the sale, and the firm now holds the palm
over Clay, Robinson & Co., who sold 10
head Of the Fred Stearns steers-l3oo
average wcight-at s7.25 per cwt. on the
10th of September.
In speaking of the above sale, VIM.
Wilson, local solicitor, said
"Some people may say that the tails
sold the tops, but the facts are these:--
Paris 4 Co. held the 10 head 2 hours at
ter the sale of the S7.4o-cattle had been
made and out of a half dozen bids 50
was the best. Finally, the buyer of the
tops came along and offered S6.Io and
got the cattle. This shows that the cat.
tie were sold on their merits. Geo. Har-
kins had some awful good cattle, and it
is a great satisfaction to me to have Par
is & Co. top the market with them"
Last year Mr.. Harkins also topped
the market for westerns. He sold 30
head, averaging 1916 pounds, at s5.75.
The sale was made on the 9TH of October
and the net price per head was s7o. This
year his best cattle netted him 500.
Commenting on the Geo. Harkins
| sale, last year, the PRESS said:-
1.-THE highest price for western range
cattle on RECORD is a sale made in July,
1882, when the top sale reached $3.50
per cwt. live weight. In 1901 it will be
remembered that the Ray cattle of this
| ,>1,~a cold NJ 81 n Nor cyyt and the Gale
was the talk of the season among cattle
men, but the Harkins price for Swear
old native rangers-Hereford and Aber-
deem Angus breeds-beats all records
for the past " years."
C%rosthwaite 4 Metcalf are selling
their band of sheep down to about 5000.
The greater part of the number are
lambs.
Harry Annear has bought o o 2-year-
old ewes of Crosthwaite & Metcalf at
$40 per head and has put the same out
with Dan Brew to keep at his place
northwest of the Elstrom ranch. Mr..
Brew keeps his cattle at the home ranch
on Green river.
Frank Schwint is charging his sheep
sheds at his Fayette, ranch.
G. w. Grove & Son are now owners OF
the c. H. Pearl sheep ranches on the
Cedar.
T. L. Beard has sold his Bel6eld ranch
to Pete Brown.
D. b. Zimmerman loaded a train of l.!
cars of cattle for market on Sunday.
: Two trains-one OF IS cars and n o
" cars-were loaded for market at Dick
, inson last Friday, among the shipper
being: Phelan, White, REILLY, Kick
! bush, Harkins, Mckenzie & Jones, Clark
: Hammond, Kennedy, Flynn, Yauch ant
t L. A. Simpson. At Medora Burgess
a Ried Bros, Johnson, Moody, Hanley, S
M. Ferris, Robinson. Eaton Bros
and Mrs. Roberts all loaded for marke
; the same day.
In the c. c. Mead trainload of cattle
p which was loaded on Sunday, we're ais
the following shippers from the south
E. S. Clough, Guy Griswold, Jeff Farrah
u VIM. Galligan, J. c. Haskin and J. W
2. Silver. Bernie Reinman, one of tn
Mead hands, made the trip with the boy
l.. Allenberg & Co. have called tn
g PRESS attention to the following fact
regarding the Duff sales of cattle recen'
= ly made in Chicago: Clay, Robinson
Co. sold l6 of the Phil Duff steers, ave-
j. aging I4o6 pounds, at s7.l5 per cwt. an
IS 9 steers, averaging 1901 pounds, at $50
making an average price for the steer
:. of $3.50 per cwt., or a gross price
i s88.25 per head. Allenberg & Co. sol
st for John Duff, on the same market,
d steers. averaging 1873 pounds. at 500
10 making a gross price of sol.29 per hea'
or $3.50 per head more than the averag
gross selling price of the Phil Duff ca
r. tie and also I5c. per cwt. more on tn
o average selling price.
:, The Beldens have bought 100 I-yea
- old ewes of Crosthwaite & Metcalf
9 s3.o5.
E The Flecks of Richardson we're
o Dickinson to see about getting som
J. sheep. They went to Sentinel Butte I
q see A. w. Stanton's band advertised f
- sale in the PRESS.
D. B. Zimmerman has sold 1000 year
:, ling ewes this week-8oo t Rochu
Fleck and 1900 to other Richardto
{ parties.
e Commissioner Henry Schultz went t
IS Glendive on Tuesday to receive 200
ir yearling sheep. He took l. Moore alon
# with him to trail the sheep home, whic
9 will require 10 to II days. Joe Pavelice
is to have 1900 sheep of Nj. Schultz.
:, A. B. Berry is building a fine shee
II barn on his ranch northeast of Taylo
e He will feed two cars of she to ma!
n ket in the winter.
j. Thomas Evans purchased four full
blooded Shropshire rams Of A. B. Berr
this week. They were beauties.
y On Wednesday G. w. Sorber Of Glad
stone was on his way 80 miles southwes
Y to get a band of his sheep which he vii
winter at home.
J. On Wednesday H. c. Miethe wa
e branding r74 steers, z and 3-year-olds
u which he had bought Of Pendergast {
Howe. The cattle were from the Free
Dickinson bunch and cost s32 per head.
, H. c. Anderson has a 2-car shipmen
5 for next week.
: ]. E. Phelan had 22o cattle on the Oh;
. cago market this week, the greater par
of which sold at S4.75, averaging a littl
over II 90 pounds.
l.. A. Simpson sold in Chicago o
IS Monday as follows: "a Iooo-steers S4.2
n, and u 1o5I-steers 81, A, J. Allen an
lie y. B. Zimmerman sold los IIo6-steer