The Dickinson press., 1904-06-25
RANCH TALK.

Allison 4 DeKleinbans drove in from
Beaver last week, arriving here on Satur-
day with three loads Of wool which they
sold quickly to Mr.. Meadows at 1870.
They have $4,000 pounds and will be in
with the balance of their clip in a few
days These growers live out IS to 100
miles but thew realize that Dickinson is
the best wool market in North Dakota
and so made the long haul this year for
the first time.
A. N. Jeneries and A. H.Arnett loaded
1000 cattle in Texas the first of the |
week. Thay load as many more the
first Of hex week and a few days later !
the third shipment will be made. Their
cattle are strung out in order to accom-
modate them at feeding points, few yards
being large enough for more than about
2ooo head. The herds will be driven
north from Dickinson.
l. Nollet of Sentinel Butte. sold This
wool to Dupee & Co. at I7c. He has
1856 sacks and delivers the same at the
railroad. His wool is good and he thinks
it will weigh well-at least 7 to 8 pounds
to the fleece.
Montana cattle men have been buying
Texas twos at $40 with a 10 per cent cut
back. The cutbacks were bought at SIG.
Miles City, June Is: rs. Fred Gale
sold &c, o pounds of wool to D. E. Hal
let for jeremiah Williams & Co. at ~
cents. Harvey Bros, of Glendive, sold
10000 pounds to the same party at 16A
cents"
A Great Falls, Montana, dispatch last
-,aoI. cl, N~Thorrh MT ~oror,111,
known, is is a fact that a larger portion
ern Montana have already sold their clips
and the prospective sales on the Great
Falls market are already "shy" about a
million pounds which changed hands
upon the sleeps backs. The prices paid
are II to I7Hc."
VIM. Dye: Our Wolf butte clip aver
aged nearly 8 lbs. per fleece and the
lamb crop figures 81 per cent. We got
a good price for our wool and have had
very little loss in our flock the past year.
The business has been profitable to us.
E. E. Cook was in with wool the first
part of the week. He sold at I7c.
Thomas Evans sold 5000 lbs. Of wool
on Tuesday at ISc.
The Crawford & Burnett clip of 10000
bounds sold this week at 1886. Os.
Chase was one of the growers who con-
tracted his wool early. He got I6Ac.
S. Sedore was interested in one clip of
wool which sold att I7Ac, but his other
wool wen for a little less.
jeremiah Crowley, breeder of pure bred
Herefords at the Elmwood Stock Farm,
| Broncho, was in Dickinson this week for
the first time since last fall. Mr.. Crowley
branded a splendid crop of calves this
| season. His stock of ~serviceable bulls
! are going and those who want some of
/ his stock this season had better write
soon.
Sam Redmond had 3 cars of grass
mutton sheep on the market this week
for which he received $3.50 per cwt. with
a small cut back which sold at $3.50.
The average weight was o5 lbs. and
Mr.. Redmond is satisfied with the price.
He bought the sheep early in the spring
in Oregon.
Paul Koch of Fayette brought his wool
in this week and sold it at I7Hc. Mr..
Koch is one of the men who thinks i,
pays to dip sheep to kill ticks, and is con.
structing a cement vat for that purpose,
He does the work himself and has nc
expense other than for the cement, and
he has a vat that will be serviceable fol
years.
1t was reported here last week that A.
B. Berry of Taylor had sold his wool a,
zoe, but Mr.. Berry says it was a mistake
and that MI. Lanterman paidhim only17c
A. L. Lauterman of Mandan has bought
some 100000 pounds of wool of the
growers north of Taylor and Richardson
The price paid was from I5H to NC.
Mr.. Lauterman buys for a Philadelphia
house.
DR.. Tracy reports that the dipping
east of the river is nearly completed.
The government has already furnished
him 10 men and others will be sent out
from Washington as needed. Dipping
is in progress in Morton county and
should commence here mex week.
Sexton & Gilbert got in Thursday just
before the rain with several 4.horse loads
of wool from the Cave Hills. Another
big outfit from South Dakota is on the
way here.
Some of the wool sales made this week:
Nv. H. Stickney and Chas. Colgrove 25,-
900 lbs. to the North Star Wooden Mills
at 18c, c. c. Mead $1,000 lbs. to Justice,
Bateman & Co. at NC, W. w. Phipps to
| VIM. Jackson at 17Ac, Preston Wilson
$1,000 lbs. at I74c. :Mr. Wilson has also
20, 900 lbs. that will be marketed in Belle
Fourche.
What is generally admitted as being
the heaviest and finest carload Of draft
horses ever shipped from<this range was
| sold to the Fowler Farm Co., Castleton,
by the Little Missouri Horse Co. this
week. These horses we're high grade
Percherons and Shire geldings, weighing
from 14oe to 1000 pounds, showing that
extreme quality and correct conforma-
ton which can only be produced by the
judicious mating of strictly high class
sires and dams. The load sold for $4,000
! and Mr.. Fowler expresses himself as
very we'll pleased with his purchase.