The Dickinson press., 1904-04-23

Chas. F. EllH OF Mandan, N. OAK,
offers for sale or trade some fine regis
tered bulls, North Dakota bred. There
are four Herefords and three Galloways,
all excellent individuals. I-16-tt
Frank Bans, manager for the Rich
ardton Cattle Co., has wintered 1900 cat
tie with a loss of ten since January l.
Geo. H. Parker: BY hard work and
judicious use and saving of hay, l have
taken my cattle through with only about
the usual per cent Of loss.
H. c. Christensen has heard from his
ranch on the Little Missouri north Of
Kildeer. During the winter he lost two
head of cattle, and a man got lost and
was somewhat frosted and lost one horse
in the last storm.
The Glendive Independent says first
estimates of stock losses were over
drawn. Reports from ranches on the
Missouri give the loss but little above
normal.
Joe Hubert was in from Richardton
Tuesday. At his place ten miles south
of Richardton he has wintered l2o head
Of cattle without loss. He had plenty Of
feed and his stock are now in good con
dition.
Restored Passes-The National Pro-
~visioner says that railroads on petition
from the leading stock yards commission
men Of Chicago have restored the return
pass to shippers OF live stock from the
western ranges. The railroads took
away the return pass privilege January
Ist, but the commission men showed that
the result would be that stockmen would
ship to the nearest markets and that
Chicago would lose a great deal of the
business, and the roads the long haul.
]. D. Pierson: l have just returned
from a 12-days' trip of inspection among
the cattle ranches and l am sure the
losses of stock have been greatly exag.
gerated. There are a few extreme cases
where men have lost heavily, but the
general average is nothing like VIVA,
some people have been figuring it to be,
Take it along the Little Missouri river
country south to the state line and
don't believe the loss in cattle will aver
age more than 2 per cent. Really
think the cattle in the Bad Lands south
of Medora are in better condition to.da,
than they were last year at this time
North of Richardton and Hebron the
losses are heavier and l should say woulc
amount to 5 or 10 per cent
o. T. Clough & Son of New England
have made about as good a showing thu
past year as any ranchers in the country
They have wintered $50 cattle and up tt
the 1st of April their loss was 7 head
fcSince then they have lost 3 head b,
! wolves. They already have 81 spring
calves. The Cloughs have good NATIVE
cattle and they worked hard with thei
stock, for it was a hard winter and the,
did not have any too much hay.
+. E. Morgan is one of the New Eng
land people who has wintered a larg'
band of sheep without any loss to speal
of. MI. Morgan has about 100 tons O
hay left over.
At the Ben Singletary ranch on tn
Little Missouri river near the old w ba
place where 40 cattle were wintered
the loss was 50 head.
), 1t is reported that the Turkey Tracl
Co. had a heavy loss Of cattle in Canad
the past winter. They formerly oper
ated in South Dokata.
t Paul Koch wintered 900 sheep at hi
e ranch neal Fayette and had no losses u
e to the 1st Of April. Since then he ha
r lost about 80 or 40 head. His cattle, E
head, wintered we'll.
T. F. Roberts in Live Stock Worlc
Horses and cattle came through the wir
t ter all right, but farmers lost a gres
many sheep. Good supply of yearling'
9 which sell from SIS to $40 per head; two
year-olds from s18 to SIS. Land sell
from $3.50 to $40 per acre.
: On Wednesday N. P. Jensen of Sout
Heart was in the city. Mr.. Jensen wiz
tered HOO sheep with a loss of 20. o.
of s. cattle he lost one. His stock
i. strong and in ordinary spring condition
IF Skew Johnson tells the Live Stoc
lie World that two or three favorable VII
'e tiers had made the North Dakota rancl
ers incautious.