The Dickinson press., 1904-08-20
RANCH TALK.

The last of this month Thomas B.
Fowler, Of the Fowler Farms Co., Cas-
%selton, N. D., will be in Dickinson again
to buy a few carloads of horses. Parties
wanting to sell in car lots will do we'll to
write or make it a point to see Mr.. Fow-
Ter or his arrival.
Richardton now has its own stock yards
and on the 28th the following parties
kus Gresz, Val Kuhn, Raphel Fleck
and others.
Hay has not been as abundant in many
years, and the weather for making hay
has also been unusually good this year.
All prudent ranchers are making an
effort to put up an extra amour against
a season when the crop is not as good.
1t is a good thing to have plenty of hay
in the stack, as many a rancher knows
now from his experience Of last winter.
The billiard Stone sheep averaged
in price about $500 per cwt. The aver
age weight was 100 lbs.
I. E. Phelan went to Knife river on
Monday to make final arrangements for
the dipping of his cattle.
T. L. Beard plans nov to go west the
last of the month to buy tfeeding sheep.
He has 1900 sheep on hand and the
quantity that he buys will depend upon
the prices.
Bismarck Tribune: E. H. Wilson is
back from Chicago where he took sew
eral carloads of cattle for sale. He got
| a fair price considering the condition of
| the market due to the strike. Mr.. Will
| son says the strike has demoralized bust.
ness in the stock yards section and is
creating general havoc in Chicago, due
to rioting and frequent disturbances.
c. H. Merry: We are putting up lots
of hay this year, probably twice the
amount that will be needed the coming
winter. We do not propose to stop cut
ting SO long as the present good hay
weather lasts and there is plenty of good
grass to cut. The chances are that We
will winter over the most of our 3.yeal
old wethers. The 1905 clip will pay US
we'll for the keeping and good returns
on the investment and there will also be
some gain in the weight of the sheep
with chances OF a mutton market fully a:
good if not a little better than this year
A bunch of the D. b. Zimmerman anc
Geo. Frye cattle sold in Chicago or
Monday at s4.2o and weighed 1910. Mr.
Zimmerman's native cattle sold at S4.6t
and s4.7o, Texans at 1896.
Forum, July Is: Chief Inspector Ram
sey, who has charge of the government
quarantine regulations for the Dakota!
and Montana, with headquarters in Far
go, received a telegram this afternoon
from President Flower of the South St
Paul stockyards that the dipping tanl
there was completed and ready for the
use of stockmen. As a result of thu
protests by North Dakota stockmen
from Secretary Wilson authorizing Chic
of cattle from the q%uarintined states til
the tank was completed. This Afternoon
DR.. Ramsey is notifying his inspector
in the three states to authorize the re
sumption of shipments at once.
For sale-4oo Texas Hereford cow.
and calves, 3 and 4 years old, single
wintered. ]. q. tPeirson, Dickinson, N
D., or Wibaux, Mont. .8-2o-4
In the Dakota Farmer, published a
Aberdeen, S. D., Clay, Robinson & Co
carry a page adv. in which they make
the statement that in selling the F. P
Stearns cattle of Ludlow, S. D., at ST.!
per hundred, on September ~, 1902
they obtained the highest price
ever paid for range cattle or any market
The aforesaid firm would not authoriz.
that kind of an adv. in North Dakota
Geo. Harkins, located south of Dickin
son, sold IS head of 3-year old Hereford
steers, averaging I424 pounds in weight
during the fall of 1902 at $40 per cwt
The sale was made by Paris & Co. Thu!
North Dakota, and not her sister state
holds the palm for the highest PRICED
grass fed range cattle. There is also
another point which should not be los
whereas Mr.. Stearns had but 10 head
son, 80 the PRESS knows whereof i
speaks.
On the Cannon Ball and Heart river!
!, J. D. Peirson says that the cattlemen ART
taking an interest in and are gettins
along nicely with their dipping. The
cattle are doing we'll and shipments t.
market will be very general the coming
month, providing, of course, that condi
, tons are favorable in St. Paul ane
Chicago, Mr. Pierson reports that it i.
very dry on the Yellowstone river nortl
of Glendive, where cattlemen are bother
ed to find water for their stock.
Geo. Harkins and J. w. Silver, two
prosperous ranchers from the south
were In Dickinson this week. The,
have dipped their cattle, although conf
dent that there are 40 cases of scab il
their herds, and they want tie authorize,
! to see that all the ranchmen do likewise