The St. Louis Republic., 1904-02-21

of important character and is success
| fu1 in all.
John =. HrnttOn.
New Workers. are expected to open their
| eyes when the: find IL public tallyho run
ming TO the Worlds Fair Grounds from
! the leading downtown hcte!s. John S.
| Bratton Of East St louis and 4. A. Busch
! Of st. Louis. each Of whom owns some
! of the finest coach horses and drags in
America, VIII ran public coach line dur
ing the Fair for :he purpose Of POPULAR
izing cnachirg.
Unless it be Mr.. Busch. there is no man
| IN America who owns more harnesses and
I carriages of Il fancy kind than Mr.. Brat
| ton. He has shown fo!r-in- hands, single
. high s'eppers. hunters ard jumpers in all
I the great horse-show towns of the coun-
. try for the past ten years.
! lie has won more prizes at Philadelphia
and New York than any one man in the
! United States. lie has shown here. in
Kansas City. New orleans and Louisville.
: He shows fos' the sport there is in 1t.
/ just as he maintains Il racing stable Of
| twenty-c:cht horses.
| He woa SlS..cn last season with his
stable. but Ee pays MS jockeys and train
efs wen ana does not give much heed to
/ profits His grandfather and father were
| owners OF racing stables ia County Ty-
rome North Of Ireland. whore John 8.
! Bratton was born.
Nh Bratton OWNS the Captain Trendley
| !arn. od WinstaIiey Park, East St
| 70 1t and erected a training arena 1l0x2e0
| feet. surrounded by box stalls. in which
are sixty blooded horses. He Is now
| breeding there SIX or seven fine brood
mares 10 Royal Victor. The private sta
BILE contains many imported horses
,,a LAST SUNDAY Mr.. Bratton was out to the
owns the place, looking at a pack Of fox
| ROUNDS that MIR. Busch has decided TO in
crease in size until it shall be the SUI
rerior of any pack in this country. MIR.
Hrattan is master of the hounds OF the
| hawthorne Hunt Club Fox hunting is
70 De revived in st. Louis County next
i'll health compelled Mr. Bratton To give
up the sport, ard it lanGuished in conse-
Mr Brattons horse and mule comruis-
SION business AT the St Louis NaiionaI
Stock YARDS is the largest In the West
ndSa ncnth he sold -.-atS horses and 1.sD
! loou last year. when il was Impossible to
| S,np horses IN or out OF 81 Louis sir
hTart2n sold $50, horses and 100 mules
| Bratton sold the British Government IS
go horses. "
the present years business started out
| ,Et Mr. Erattou iias record breaker
honoay or last week he accepted an ortier
| rom the United States Government for
80 norses These horses are for the new
cavalry regiment ana for remounts. Mr..
| Brdtton buys all the time Tor the Cow
erIment His Judgment is relied upon
No man has done more TO advertise tba
81. Louis National Stock Yards than Mt.
| Bratton All his showing has been from
s,e National Stock Yards. 1t has called
attention to ST. Louis a fancy horse
market and given Easter, horse fancers.
especially. a better opinion Of the West
| than they formerly held.
MIR. BrSttOn beiDny- fo tho f-r,,y~
OF Phliadelphia and TO the Missouri Ath-
ieuc Club st. Louis. He was manager
years. He was in the commission bust
ness in Chicago three years.
He came to East st. Louis seven years
age, just after the bulk of the horse and
muie business of st. Louis went to the
National yards. The firm then was Minis,
Sloan & Brattcn. then Minis & Bratton.
Mr. Bratton bought out his partners
He Is one of the most popular men
among the horse and mule buyers in East
81 Louis. His regular selling days at
| tract unusual attendance to the selling
rinE- North of Ireland wit. hot OF the
bat. flashes forcefu!ly when good bargainss
are being neglected
T. s. Henderson 4 Co.
It Is worth while for the investor tu
note that while SO many brokers and deal.
ers in mining stocks complain that there
Is nothing doing in such properties that
the demand for the Great Western proper
ties controlled by Henderson & Co. has
been 50 very brisk that but a few shares
are now on the market
The reason for this Is that these prop.
critics are in an advanced stage Of az.
veopmert not simply "prospects.'
| There Is a large tunnel to the 40o-foof
levei. an air compressor plant completed
and an up.to-date smelter with an Aliis-
| Chalmer furnace practically ready for
| service. Every feature-assay office COM
missary. catering arrangements. etc. are
full tf-~
The Shasta property. about 400 acres,
with the main mineral bearing vein from
80 to 900 feet wide. running in three dis
zones will supply a hundred-ton smelter
| 1or year or more. which means that
TINS Is a bonanza for investors. with PROS
poets for handsome dividends for a life
| time
COPPER sulphide gold-bearine nugget.
Western property. and will be shipped to
st: Louis to be included in the California
mineral exhibit at the Worlds Fair
for the Amazon mine f Of Msiee Mesicee. ':SSs TSe
manager MAJ of This mine is now in tho city
pa eod sxsn Tsh vein
hismuth. has been developed. He reports
that one vein bears ore yielding over 500
one Of the greatest of Mexican mines long
noted for their richness. The smeIter IL
aeoIs he rsady m for use so that dividends may
4
.MessrS Henderson & Co. have been
mining brokers for many wears and hsve
/ the reputation of being extremely cautious
about assuming the responsibility for the
! value of mining proposition Their NJ
| hces are in the Commercial building.
st. Louis . Portland Cement Center.
St Louis is one of the chief distributing
points in the country for Portland cement.
Eight companies are represented here.
One of the largest cement plants IN tho
/ West Is only few miles from the CITY
| limits 1t turns out c.soO barrels of CO.
ment day.
| Missouri and Kansas ars the chief West
ern States in which good limestone and
| clay for Portland cemsn;-makinr are
| found. Much of this cement Is sold in St
Louis. The local consumption Is 500 900
barrels a year. 1t is steadily growing.
This cement is used orly for permanent
| work
| A Kansas cement man has had a piece
of the pyramids analyzed. He says it
shows that the particles in the stone have
been ground. This to him indicates that
the pyramids were made of Portland ce-
| Uient and tnat the moderns merely have
| restored Il lost art in masonry IN giving
| the present age Portland cement,
! The name of the cement comes from a
particular limestone rock found on the
! English coast. Formerly the p.anufacture
! of The cement was Shrouded m mystery