The Dickinson press., 1904-10-01
RANCH TALK.

Rappal Bror. 4 Co.: Continuance OF
the urgent demand for wool is the bright
est spot in the sheep mans horizon.
Boston reports an undated demand.
Wool is scarce and the manufacturing
interest is fully alive to the situation.
Not only has production decreased, but
consumption is increasing by leaps and
bounds. With buyers already securing
the range, bidding on next years clip,
the hockmaster with grass has no cause
to worry about the present or immediate
future condition of the mutton market.
w. b. Howe is putting sheep out with
Peter J. Peterson, south of the Cedar,
and with Truelson Bros. at their ranch
north of Belfeld near Saddle butte.
c. r. Pendergast will ship three cars
Of cattle OF the 9th.
c. NJ. Dinsdale went to Montana this
week to buy sheep for Hilliard & Merry.
The car of Oxford bucks Tor billiard
4 Merry arrived from Canada the past
week. They were a splendid lot, and |.
Nollet, who appreciates the value OF
good stock, was on hand to buy all OF
these bucks that the owners would SELL
Geo. Ludolph ordered 30 cars at Dick
inson this week for the 18TH. Besides
MIR. Ludolph's cattle there will be ship
ments by Edwin Johnson, J. e. Shaw, w.
Atkinson and others from the country
south.
Will Clark found a good market for
two cars Of horses in the Devils Lake
country and will will make another ship
ment about the first of October. MIR.
/ Clark sold 100 horses a short time ago
to a South Dakota party and taking it all
together has found the season very good
for his business. He is branding 100
colts this fall.
Last year the Rasmus Jensen steers of
this place brought the highest price Of
the year for grass fed steers. So far the
best price of this season is $3.50, as will
be seen by the following from Mondays
Chicago Live Stock World. "rhe de-
mand was good and because Of the
moderate supply market took on an
active tone and sales were made steady
to a shade higher. One lot of prime
steers shipped by Rice & Knudson, Of
Minot, N. D., sold at $50, which is the
highest of the year. Several sales were
made at S4.25 a 40, but most of the
supply OF fair to medium sold at S3.I5 q
4.25. Some good range cows sold at
1915"
H. c. Anderson is one Of our prosper.
Gus stockmen. He breeds his own cattle
and this year will brand 200 or more
calves. His COWS were in good flesh in
the spring which accounts for his very
fine call crop. He fed about 700 tons OF
hay to his cattle last year and still had
Is tons left over. This season he has
put up 500 tons of new hay. People who
manage their ranches as Mr.. Anderson
does find a good profit in raising cattle.
The chief of the bureau of animal in
dustry has been in correspondence with
DR.. L. Van Es and has practically agreed
to put into service a number of line
riders to supervise the movement of
cattle on our borders the coming winter.
John Oyhus and Jim Christen, of Bel
field, were in Dickinson on Monday to
complete arrangements for the shipment
Of cattle on Friday. They expected
that a train load of stock would be ship
ped from Belfeld IN that day.
AT Belfeld there was a large shipment
for Friday: A. H. Anderson 2, Gus An
derson e., P. Indergaard z, w. E. King
z, Belfeld Land & Cattle Co. IS, Philip
OFT 2, c. H. Shaw 2, J. {. Oyhus 2, Jim
Christensen l, M. B. Frisbie 2, f. White
4. At Dickinson IS cars were booked:
Eyer, Little, Paul, Smith Dobson, Mike
Miller, c. c. Mead and others noted in
the last issue OF the PRESS.
At Dickinson from the grid to the 10Th
100 cars Of stock are booked for ship
ment. Richardton and Taylor also have
shipments along at this time.
]. H. Caldwell OF Taylor has 100 un.
broken horses tor sale.
According to the American Sheep
Breeder J. E. Cobb of this city has bought
400 acres Of land in northern Wisconsin
where he is to ship 1000 sheep and fit
for market this fall.
On Monday, September 10th, 1904
Rappal Bros, & Co. topped the western
cattle market with a three-sar bunch OF
North Dakota grass fed cattle which
sold at $50 for the New York trade to
James Staurt, Of Staurt & Hoffman, who
are among the most prominent of the
many big eastern shippers buying at the
Chicago market. These top steers which
belonged to Messrs. Rice 4 Knudson,
Minot, N. D., were of the same quality
and flesh as the same herd, with the ex.
ception of ten pounds different in weight
which we sold for the aforesaid cattle
growers last year, 1908, at SAYS. Our
sale on Monday, $50 evidences that the
present market is 35c per cwt. higher
than a few weeks ago, and verifes con
clusively the prediction we made earlier
in the season that the prices paid fol-
western cattle this year would average
higher than last year. Twenty-four o
the steers averaged I4oo lbs. and 2t
I4Io lbs.
Paris & Co.: We sold twenty-five
loads of North Dakota cattle at price!
ranging from 50 to S4.65. The s4.65 cat
tie were a sort of the H. c. Andersen
cattle from Oakdale, N. D., and wer'
bought by Doud and Kiefer for shipmen
to Liverpool. The rest of his steers sole
as feeders at S4.o5, which is, we think
the highest price paid yet this season TO
any western cattle for feeding purposes
Sales: H. c. Anderson 20 steers ia
lbs. s4.65, 80 1866 lbs. $4.o5 and IS COW
( Io44 lbs. 81; FL Berringer steers IIoo lbs
s3:65; J. S. Birdsall 90 steers 1893 Lbs
r $3.50; E. D. Kemble IS steers 1860 lbs
$500, same lo steers 1913 lbs. 50; Owen
Land & Cattle Co. 81 steers 1907 Id:
5 s3.o5 and 6 head at $3.50.
, There seemed to be some difficulty i
: getting cars on Friday.
Depth Of Ocean Cables.
There seems to be no logical reaso
> why cables cannot be laid across an