The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-09
NORTH DAKOTA
NORTH DAKOTA
The WESTERN HORSE
He Is Being Bred Up and Developed
Into an All-Around Service
able Animal.
Between $500 and 5000 to Be
Offered at the Great Sale
at Miles City.
Special to. The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Jamestown, N. D., June 9.-All kinds of STOCK
have made great gains in this state and in
eastern Montana where the grass has been
nicely started by the rains. Stockmen say that
the range never better for cattle and that
the wonderful qualities of the native grasses
of this region again demonstrate their value and
superiority over the grass of any other part of
the country by the rapid growth of stock. The
season promises to be very favorable as the
grass has not grown. too fast from excessive
rains or heat, but has just the right amount OF
nourishment in it for the best feeding results
A good many stockmen and farmers of western
and central North Dakota are becoming inter-
ested in the great horse sale to be held at Miles
City, beginning June % and continuing six days.
The sale is another annual event. the sponsor
for which is A. B. G. Clark, well known Mon
tana stockman. The railroad companies pat
ronzing and encouraging the event, which Will
bring together about $500 horses Of all kinds
for sale by auction. The roads give rebate OF
passenger fares for all who ship horses from
the sale east, and the Montana and Dakota stock
men expect patrons and visitors from all parts
of the country.
At the coming sale there will be about ], 600
well broken horses offered to the highest bid
ders, and another lot of about 1000 will con-
sst of mares and colts, geldings and two and
three-y ear-olds, not broken There will be large
| numbers of heavy draft horses in the bunch and
| the sale is to be conducted by the best auction
GERS in the country.
The horsemen Of Montana and North Dakota
have been improving the breed Of their stock
tie last few years by getting the very best sires
TO be mad Tor the purpose or increasing the
weight of offspring.
The feed of this western country is probably
| better adapted for the raising of horses than
| that of any region in the. whole country.
| colt bred from mare in Iowa in any of the
corn growing states, and raised on native hay
and grain, of those states will not develop more
| than two-thirds the bone that will the
native grass of Dakota and Montana. The alti-
tude of the hills and his natural pasturage range
l will develop lungs on the animal like black
smith, bellows; the dry, gravely soil will give
| him feet like mountain sheep, and climbing the
hills and running at free will the range will
| give him muscle constitution and courage beyond
| that of any other horse in the world.
The eastern buyer of Montana and North Da-
kota horses has heretofore had large punches Of
| the cheaper animals to select from and the
! shipment of this class of scrubs inferior ami
mails has given the impression abroad that the
| western horse, generally speaking, is poor
| excuse for serviceable horse. The sales Of
these light weight and inferior horses have never
been profitable either to the buyer or the seller,
| and the western horseman has been striving to
! get more marketable animal for the last dozen
years. The climate and feed and good sires
| have combined to make great improvement in
the horses from this region, and hundreds of ami
| mails that can now be had western range, or
at one Of the large Sales will compare fayorably
| with the average eastern horse. In short time
these western horses will be greatly superior to
the eastern-bred colt and eastern raised horse.
+ Another advantage in these sales at some spec
! 1al point in the west, is the saving. in expense
large buyer, Or several small ones, shipping
i together. $50 on a car over the cost
If the horses were shipped east and sold in the
usual expensive. way. great many western
horsemen expect to bring their horses to the
Miles City sale this spring, and the expense Of
selling for the owner is thus reduced to mini
mum. 1t is plan to save the commission man s
profits, and deal directly between the owner and
buyer.