Little Falls herald., 1904-01-29
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81 Jan.2 The village council met Il 81 u
zWednesday the 20th to 5open the bids
aforathe building Of tie hail and isiI
and rejjssoied bids, an,d; viii PROB 81,
Ab1Ys q change th6 plans an6d ierhapllss' llsa
not build until spring 81 5.'5|3.s 5'.s'
Tlasls. Is al n y 4 here &C pres
sent building anew Ice house &. put
ting q new g oor in tho depot and
struggling the section house. #45@ss2s, Szs;,
Rev. Mark Of Foley rs here IN
charge Of: the Presbyterian congrega-
tion and will probably remain for:
some time. !. .=>. 81 ~ $55 s5
Herman soheubel Of Clough says
count him for q share In . creamery.
He would rather pay $50 for a share
In q creamery than pay 81 for . share
in a horse and he has had experience
in both. IN; >; .>sSs zsjs
More Horse Music-Mr. Horse Deal
or said in his little piece: ..''.. :: I'd =; =;
"Now If the Randall knocker will
put up his hammer and try and get q
little information he may yet becom.
a useful citizen and Of benefit to the
community" -, = '>>
Further on he says the knocker
should knock some more. Well. as 1
can't comply with. both his requests,
put up the hammer and knock some
more at the same time, I will Just
hold onto the hammer and knock, and
give what little information can get
as fast as.I can get it. Is
The following prices are taken from
government reports obtained through
government officials at WASHINGTON
and based on the sworn statement of
importers.
Horse values by countries AS q
matter of interest to readers generally
and buyers practically, I will give the
prices of such horses from tho various
countries from whence they come.
Horses imported from Great Britain
during 1909 had an average value of
1867; from Canada $193. and from all
other countries $3.50. The last are
mostly from France. Germany and
Belgium. But very few come from
other countries. During the year
named 710 horses came from England,
8s5 from Canada. and 1869 from all
other countries. The number of pure
bred horses from Canada, the price
and the fact that they are as truly
imported as if they had come across
the Atlantic, arouses the unpleasant
suspicion that some at least of those
$4,000 stations sold In South Dakota
may be of those 193felltws from across
the st. Lawrence or Ontario.
am reliably informed that one
firm has sold nineteen draft stations
in South Dakota during the past year
for the snug sum Of $40. 600, an aver
age Of q, 1853 each. When 1t III
known that the-aversge price of the
horses import ed into the United
States duty free in 1900 was $3.50
each, In 1901 1891 each, and 1902 $4s7
each, or an AVERAGE for the. three
years of about $4oo, it may begin to
dawn upon the buyers of the afore-
said horses that they paid for, them
all they were worth, at least. for
their $4,000 animals were doubtless
of the imports named If imported at
all. and the value of the imports is
probably the correct one or low or
than their real cost, if anything, for
as there is no duty on them there Is
no occasion to undervalue to save
duty but rather a tendency to over
value them for appearance at least.
Now, it will be seen that $1,000 to
$500 ought to buy the choicest stall
lions as it will, while good ones,
; as good perhaps as anything brought
tc Randall, should be bought for $500
to $1,000, as they undoubtedly can if
, bought right. But the horse agent is
not any more to blame than the
horse buyers, and the genius he is
possessed of in selling stations at
$4,000 to $4,000 each. ought to be
praised. in fact. as loudly praised as
the stupidity and folly of the horse
buyers ough t to be denounced.
1 have another article at hand
which is to lengthy to give, COM
plains of the unreasonable and extor-
tionate prices of stations, winds up
saying "paying the stranger promoter
Of club of farmers the price he,
asks for particular stallion is what
makes the price unreasonable and ex-
tortionate, but that is price the
farmer is not compelled to pay if he
don't want to- =.
The meeting held here on the 2srd
which was called to discuss the
creamery and starch factory was we'll
attended in spite Of ! the extreme
Cold weather, and everything seemed
favorable for a creamery In Randall: