The Dickinson press., 1903-05-23
Ranch Talk.

this week and bought 100 Texas steers
of J. ID. Pisrson
W. &. Whinn ha. pat bales OF
Wool in I'll. w"rci".:se, here the past
Week, which is the first wool TO come in
this season. BY another week there will
be quite a little wool coming in but the
big rush will not commence until about
the second week in June.
Redmond & Zimmerman planned to
start their sheep shearing machine on
the 10th and should have wool in Dick
inson tor baling the first of next week.
The wanna shearing crew will be at
the Wamsley ranch to commence work
on the 75th. The members Of this crew
as Tar as learned. are: D. wanna,
c. A. Albrecht, Joe Wilhelm,
Martin and John Knutson, Clarence Mel
lis and Knute Knutson.
Ben Singletary recently shipped a car
of bulls in from Kansas city. He has
sold a part Of the bunch and will keep
several for his own use.
Ole E. Olson has engaged to shear the
K. T. Eiken band of 1900 sheep. He
has been helping Mr.. Eiken with lambing
and is glad of a chance to shear near
home instead Of going out with a crew as
in other seasons.
The Landing season this year has been
unusually favorable.
From present indications woolgrower:
can reasonably expect a price of about
I6c to NC.
The N. P. will enlarge the east Dickin
son stock yards by the addition Of two
| pens on the west and a double sheer
| chute will also be erected. This vii
greatly facilitate the loading of sheer
and will be appreciated by the sheepmen
Billy Rea, of Rae Bros, who hav'
made so much money the past season il
feeding sheep for the Chicago market
was a wesbound passenger last Saturday
Mr.. Rae told a PRESS representative tina
the 5000 sheep shipped out Of Sentine
Butte in February hattened nicely. The
also marketed thousands of wethers thl
spring that they had wintered on alfalf
D. w. Ryder has just returned frol
H. c. Christiansen's ranch where h
bought a carload of horses which he wi
keep in his pasture at Bel6eld until h
has dad time to handle and fit the san
for market. Mr.. Ryder recently deli,
cred 225 Shire horses, including a nun
Der of fine breeding mares, to Canada
buyers for a lump sum OF about $1,000
ID. Pierson is booked to receive 81
southern cattle next Wednesday.
Dakota Farmer: Will wool be high
than a year ago2 We are asked on 2
! i. sides, and because we have expresse
ourselves as to the opinion that it won
| be at least a cent higher, possibly two,
number have taken us to task for boor
ing the market, and to prove our pc
judgment, quote last February pric
and show that wool is about that mu
7 lower than then, But prices betwe
, now and last winter were not what
were talking about. There was a tr
during the winter when wool was fore
+ we'll above what the situation warrante
D and down it had to come, and down
i, came. Some of the most conservati
, houses, including H. T. Thompson &C
q whose name is synonymous with +
statements OF wool situations, say II
good, light shrinkage woods are abe
that much, from one to possibly t
6 cents, higher than a year ago, and Il
! the situation warrants a firm mark
: From a statistical stand point the sit,
S ton is certainly very strong.
FL r 40 r.. u p,.,,o- ,.,~.
Thursday for n Of their sheep ranch
J. su ntnwe.. ~ va :. tomnd , sr,
Man.sley t1n n1h "Ae'e "e 'ou"a 'p'
o'o eioP VI '"'o
= Dispatches from the northern part
Montana say that the losses of ca,
e and sheep caused by the snow sto
e there on May l6, II and 10 is somethl
appalling, and will foot up as high
s s5,ooo,ooo. In some sections 90 per c.
of the range sheep are said to have p
n ished and several herders lost their liv
e Nothing like the fury of this May sto
was ever known before and its effects ,
be felt for several years. Of a consi,
ment of 600 cattle bound from Hav
Montana, all but five were found froz
1t is believed that the storm must h;
swept the Northwest Territory and II
E Tony Day and others who left this s.
al ton a few years ago have sustained
severe loss in cattle. No doubt
earlier reports have been more or !
exaggerated, but the loss is certai
ton at the p1essn. t.m : Just Ie Ino
l. wool commission merchants Of Phi
s, delnnia. saws: Manufacturers b.