The Dickinson press., 1903-10-10
RANCH TALK.

raised at DR.. Beaunont's stock rauc;l
Stanton, Mercer county.
TO. Anderson, owner Of the T o A
for lumber and supplies for his ranch
southwest OF Bel6eld. MI. Anderson
owns the land in townships IaS and Iol,
southwest of Bel6eld, where he will win.
ter 300 cattle. His stock brand will be
l. Nollet returned to Sentinel last
Saturday from marketing 4 cars of sheep
and 2 cars of cattle in Chicago. The
sheep, mostly ewes, sold at $40 and
weighed 1o5 lbs. The cattle sold at
1866. All things considered, Mr.. Nollet
was we'll pleased with the sales which
were made by Allenberg & Co.
A number Of local woolgrowers are in
tending to put in Cotswold and Oxford
rams this fall.
c. E. Carroll of Yule returned last
Saturday from marketing 4 cars of cattle
in Chicago. Three cars of natives sold
at 43.65 and averaged 1880 in weight. A
car of dogie cattle sold at $3.50.
Chicago Live Stock World: l. Nollet,
a prominent ranchman of Sentinel Butte,
N. D., was here September goth with
four double decks of western grass ewes
averaging los lbs. which sold to Ham
mond & Co. at S3.4o, the top price of the
week for fat ewes.
Allenberg & Co. report the following
sales for Tuesday: Johnson and Vine,
l car each, s4.85; Freedlund, $4.4o; Ash
croft, S4.3o. The Johnson and Vine
cattle topped the market for Tuesday.
CT. Buss and Fred Wilson have sold
1920 acres of land and ranch improve
ments in Billings county to an Iowa
party. They get s2.75 per acre, an ad,
n Of S1.oo owe what they gave, and
$500 for the Improvements, and do not
give possession until next April. Mr..
Buss is we'll pleased with the ranch
business and will. look up a new location.
M. S. Bennett has closed out all of his
sheep at Yule with the exception of
1000 which are placed on shares with
Dave Fonsen. Mr.. Bennett expects to
60 west.
On Monday Paris & Co. sold 81 head
of cattle belonging to Rasmus Jensen as
follows: II head at S5.o5 per cwt.. and
II head at 4.45. The average weight of
the 81 head was 1901 pounds. The price
paid for the ~ head is the highest figure
paid this year for grass fed beef steers.
The steers were 3 year old native Here
fords. The cattle were bought for ex-
port by Eddie Eagen and the grower,
Mr.. Jensen, was given a pass to New
York on the same train in which his
cattle were shipped.
The first of the week Paul Koch was
compelled to shoot two pet grey wolves
belonging to a neighbor. They had been
prowling around his ranch nights for
some time and one day MI. Koch caught
one of them and notified the owner, w,
A. Beck, who came and got his wolf.
This week both Of the wolves came over
in the day time and were chasing the
sheep when one of the Koch boys took
down his rifle and shot them. The vol
is sure to be wolfsh even after having
been tanned, and the ranchers will prob.
ably find that they are not profitable or
satisfactory to have around the premises
Shipments at Dickinson for the 10th
are as follows: H. ]. Schultz S sheep
cars, ]. G. Saunders 3 sheep cars and JOE
RAIDER I, Fred Hoerauf 2 cars cattle
| For the l4th Joe Crosthwaite has z sheer
| cars booked and y. B. Zimmerman IS
The Deep Creek Cattle Co. have 7 cattle
cars booked for the 18TH. M. Sutherland
has I car ordered for the 18th and on til.
goth Connolly Bros. have 3 cars ordered
E. F. Messersmith expects to take thu
L. A. Simpson and Caroline Busse ship
ment to market on the 10th. w. c
Hecht has D D car ordered for the 1911
at Taylor.
The Richards Cattle Co. sold IS 1905
cows the first of the week at 50.
The strike troubles and shutting dow
of the Minneapolis Touring mills ma.
have some bearing on sheep feeding
The big feeders depend largely on mil
screenings.
Andrew Schoenlein was in from tn
north this week to receive a car of cat
tie which a party from the east ha'
shipped him.
o. P. liner sold his fine Perchero
colts at Mandan to Joseph Weibel 70
$4,000.
Cattle sales on the lst from this Il
cality we're as follows: Richards & Jet
ferries ~ I235-steers $3.50, Converse Ca
tie Co. Q II3I-stags $3.50, F. Leutz 6
1147-steers $40 and II ro64-steers $3.2'
Chicago Live Stock World: Mort
Dakota is or top again in the range ca
tie market. Rasmus Jensen of Oakdal'
N. D., had in ~ head of rangers th'
averaged 1908 and sold at s5.o5, the to
price Of the year so far. They were
wear old Herefords and sold to 90 aliy
to New York.
The American Sheep Breeder Sc,
} great promise in the fact that mutto
prices have been so good this year
spite of the large runs and predicts tn;
the land laws will eventually be change
so as to give the woolgrowers a bett'
; chance. Speaking of the strained COZ
dition existing in some localities in w
oming and Montana this paper say
\ "And the strange part of this situation
that it is not due to any scarcity of era
) ing land, but to the idiotic and wastet
manner in which it is forced to be use
under the present obsolete land Law
: The time is rapidly approaching WIT
the country will demand an increase
production of both wool and mutton fro
the west. Before it can be had, congre
will have to fix the land laws. We ha'
reached the limit under present CONF
tions and those contemplating enteril
the range sheep growing business in t
west should bear this in mind. OF cour
I it will all be fixed in time.
d Geo. Ludolph with about ID cars
cattle and J.. F. Mead with q cars, left
Chicago late Thursday evening. TIL
: had expected to load on Friday, but N
Ludolph wanted to be in Chicago, ear
next Monday and so the train was load
O the night before.
Twenty of the w. L. Richards stee
sold Tuesday at S4.25, weight IL
Cows for same party sold at $3.50, 50 a
s2.7o. Peter Indergaard had a car
cattle on the market but we could not
the price. The Little Mo. H. Co. st
sold at 1855 tor 154 head and others
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