Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28
BUSINESS BRISK.
Heavy Work Horses Are In
Constant Demand.
Some Fine Shoppers Have Recently
Changed Owners.
"Ray Wilkes" Sold for $500, Last
Week.

The demand for horses AMONG the To-
cal dealers is holding up well. this spring
especially in the heavier class. In this
class are Both Western ana native horses
and they find Il ready sale ut good prices.
of the horses are sold to the farmers,
although some of them so to the quar-
ries, and it would seem from the weekly
list of sales that the Augusta horse mar
kct must be supplying the wants, in this
line, for a large section of the country.
III. f. Cummings, who probably handles
as many horses as any man in Kennebec
county, reports the spring business as
very satisfactory. Mr.. Cummings deals
largely in heavy horses, although he.
keeps an eye out for drivers, as well as
steppers. and usually has representatives
Of the three classes at his stable on
Bowman street. During the past week
he had two lots of heavy horses arrive,
and they are selling well. Friday and
Saturday eight We're sold, and parties
were expected to look at others.
Mr.. Cummings has the 4-year-old bay
geldng Lon Wilkes at his stable. and
thinks there is a future stored up in the
youngsters body. He was recently Of
fered $500 in cold cash for the horse
but the man who becomes the owner of
the horse will have to pay more money
than the figure quoted above.
And, speaking of Wilkes horses, there
was q good one shipped TO Boston from
Winthrop Center. last week. The veteran
horse dealer and trainer, John May of
Boston, made a trip down through Maine
two weeks ago, looking for some good
horsefesh, and of course found some.
Among others purchased by him was the
seal brown gelding King Wilkes, owned
by Elwood Bailey of Winthrop Center.
Mr. May has owned some of the best
horses in the country. among them Pilot
Times cup and knows what there is in
horse as soon as he sets his eye on him.
and the fact that ne put up the sum OF
$500 for King Wilkes tells something Of
what the horse is.
King Wilkes is well bred, and one OF
the handsomest horses in Kennebec coun-
ty, and speedy as we'll He is a rich seal
brown in color, seven years old, stands
1873 hand and weighed last fall, 1918
pounds. He is by Nelson's Wilkes, out of
a dam by Locomotive-he by Old Knox.
King Wilkes is full brother to Johnnie
Wilkes, liz, and Commander, 1919, and
has a mark of 27H. He has more speed
than that and has been worked miles in
u, and halves in los. 1t is reported that
the horse was secured for New York par
ties, but wherever he goes it viii not be
time wasted to keep an eye upon his do
ngs.
Horsemen along the Kennebec are now
wondering when the little bay PAGER Ray
Wilkes will eventually land. The mare
has changed hands four times within
comparatively short time and each time
at ain advance in price until the price
which has recently been paid for her is
almost 10 times that for which she was
originally bought. Ray Wilkes was bred
in the vicinity of Calais, and when quite
young was bought by VIM A. Mitchell
of Waterville, for about $500. Last year,
the mare was sold to Ernest Randall OF
Portland, for $500, and since then she
has changed hands twice. TIL parties to
whom Mr. Randall sold her paid the sum
of s115o, and now i. is~reported that they
in turn have sold her for. $500. Talk
about gold mines and stock in oil wells
they are not in it as an Investment COM
pared with this little mare and her rec
ord of 2oA. lax
IT is said that one of Augustus lovers
of a good horse will receive a mare, this
week. that will trim some Of the fast
ones before the snow flies. The animal
is expected to arrive in a day or two. and
rumor says that she is a crackaja jack.
sters at his stables They are both four
years old-one a chestnut gelding that
shows lots of speed, and the other a colt
by Claude Fisher that is as pretty as a
picture.