The Dickinson press., 1903-06-27
RANCH TALK.

c. M Dinsdale got l6c for a portion
of his wool and the balance went for a
little less.
J. w. Sellman recently sold II horses
to D. w. Ryder at a good figure.
The Deep Creek Cattle Co. are build
ing up a new ranch at the l.. D. Carter
place.
Frank Boch was in the first of the
week with the first load OF the F. G..
Bishop wool.
]. w. Chamberlain & Co., Blue Island,
Ill.,, send the PRESS a circular regarding
their stock weaver. J. w. Chamberlain,
the inventor. formerly resided in Stark
county, and claims that his invention is
just what .stockmen need when they wean
their calves.
The Gotta & Burgster wool. 1880
pounds, sold around l6c.
Richards Il Dinsdale sold their wool,
about $1,000 pounds, at I6c.
Tom Evans sold his wool, which ave.
ragged about 5H pounds per fleece, for
loH cents.
!. D. Russell has a contract for putting
up hay for the Little Missouri Horse Co.
F. f. Morgan, who sold among the
first, got I64 for his $1,000 clip. His
average per fleece was a fraction less
than 81 pounds. He has a large num-
Der OF yearlings in his band.
N. P. Jensen's fine clip of 1874 pounds
sold for 1865 cents. Mr.. Jensen is a very
successful sheep grower and has a lamb
crop this year of o6 per cent, a record
that few growers a give this season.
The first wool sold in Glendive At IS
cents.
Reports from Miles City have it that
the prices of wool, which have been
somewhat lower than usual there, are
climbing up. Sale of a clip Of about
goo, o pounds was affected there a few
days ago which brought IS cent a pound.
Other clips sold between IS and IS
cents, an advance of about z cents above
the prices that have been prevailing.
o. H. Wichmann wal in from New
England Thursday. There is plenty of
grass for hay in his section and cattle are
doing fine.
Persons taking up estrays must adver-
tise the same within ten days in some
weekly newspaper. If appraised at $25
or less the title rests in the party taking
up the estray after mi year; If at over
SIS, the estray must be sold at public
auction, sale advertised and conducted
| by the justice Of the peace. Persons
taking an estray are entitled to damage
done and cost for keeping and caring for
same, but the estray must no be worked,
| else no allowance will be granted for
care of the animal.
Hilllard & Merry have lIo sacks of
wool in. The balance will come in about
July l, and the total clip will be 200
sacks.
H. I. Schultz has go corn fed cattle
and a lot of hogs at Admire, Kansas.
They are ready for market any time but
will be held for a little better market.
Sentinel Butte will market around $780,
900 pounds of wool. Some of the larger
clips are: A. w. Stanton, 10000; F. p,
Stone, $1,000; A. L. Martin, 10000; J. b
Stoddard, $4,000; l. Nollet, $4,000: Dan
Philips 10000; V. Canwenberghe, $4,000
D. B. Zimmerman, 10000; Olsted, 10000
Six wool houses are represented here
by the following buyers: Suddards
Topping Meadows, Jackson, Beardsley
and Massey.
MI. Massey bought a car of wool thi!
week for the Grand Forks Wooden Mills
Stickney & Colgrove consigned theil
wool to Nichols, Dupee & Co.
Henry Edgar's clip Of 500 pounds
from 900 yearlings makes an average o.
I6H pounds to the fleece. The proceed.
of the sale of his wool figures just o5,
per head, which is a fine average TO
yearlings.
The Gardner, Oden & Sexton wool
10000 pounds, was sold to Justice, Bate
man 4 Co. at a good figure. 1t was
fine clip and averaged a fraction over
lbs. to the fleece. There were a larg'
number of yearling in the lot.
During the past week wool has beef
coming in at the rate Of 40 and 50 load
per day and the buyers have been busy
Up to Thursday night about a quarter o
a million pounds of wool had been bough
and as much more was in the warehous,
and cars waiting the buyers, As far a
known the highest price paid at thi!
place this season has been l6Mc. Mucl
of the wool has sold at "a to I5c, and tn
growers, as a whole. seem verywell salts
fed. A few clips have been consigned
The average weight of the bags this yea
is probably about go pounds, and fol
lowing are names Of parties and tn
number of bags sold up to this time
Gotta & Burgster, 40 bags, Morgan So
Richards & Dinsdale IS. Crawford 8
Burnett 40, Snider 48. Hart g.. Koeing &c
Hoshke Is, Foster y, Dinsdale as
Reder 20, Goodalc IS, Gardner 81, Davi
Bros 80, Evans ~. Moberly 45, Jcnsel
26, Hendren IS, Twerdv 81, Brien re
Schultz 81, Colgrove. Stickney & Geo.