Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-01-19

the price paid was $500. He has put
these steers on feed for the spring
market.
diamond Billp Hall, OF Lancaster,
Mo considered as one OF the most
extensive and sensational horse buyers
in the west, has bought the Walter
L. Main circus ard will take charge Of
all features and property at once. The
circus will retain the name of the
Walter L, Main Show, but will be I'M
der the proprietorship and manage
ment Of HAL.
Attention is called to the adyer-
tisment in the Weekly LEDGER Of the
public sale OF personal property Of
Gamble & Farrah, to be held Tues
day, January "a at what is known as
the Gamble place, west of this city.
Included in the offerings is a fine lot
of hsrses, cattle, sheep and swine. II
you are DESTROYS of buying such as
listed, you cannot well afford to miss
this sale.
FROM CENTRALIA COURIER.
Barnes s. Brown purchased 4 head
Of extra good mules Of Mexico traders,
and 4 head OF nice horses of Hallsville,
parties the first Of the week.
FROM THE FULTON SUN.
Howard Muir and Houchins Bros.
shipped four car loads Of cotton mules
to st. Louis from McCredie Monday
afternoon. These mules were In
splendid condition and will bring
about $3.50 per head on the st. Louis
market. There we're a hundred mules
In the four loads.
Howard Bailey, Of the Maxwell
Crouch Mule Company, OF st, Louis,
purchased 1862 mules 10 the county this
week for which be paid s2l,252. He
bought mules from the following par
ties: Joe Coons SO cotton mules at s125
per head, J. Elgin Glenn 50 cotton
mules at sl21 per head, and Wesley
Muir and VIM Vivion % big mules at
$3.50 per head. The mules will all be
shipped from McCredie this week.
The largest farm. In the world is
probably a farm Of $4,000 acres on the
northern boundary Of Oklahoma, 1t
belongs to the Indians and is leased
to an American farmer, who is cred
tied with conducting the most perfect
farm In the world. IL costs nearly
500, 900 a year to keep this vast farm
in operation One-fourth OF this
amount is paid for hired help. 10000
acres are put to wheat, 5000 to corn
and 1000 TO sorghum.
FROM THE FULTON GAZETTE.
Dyer brothers, OF Auxvasse, have
lis steers on hand that they expect to
begin corn-feeding about February Is.
They also have $50 hogs.
E. Mentor Berry, a leading stock
man of McCredie township, sold Sam
uel Crighead, of Audrain county, so
head Of good two-year-old steers for
sf6 a head last week. They averaged
about 1,075.
Last week Harris brothers, OF Nc
Credie, shipped a load OF cotton mules
to st. Louis and sold them for sl20
around and J. E. Moore, Of Guthrie,
had a load on rhe same market that
brought sl35 apiece.
One stock deal that should have
been mentioned last week is still
worth telling: Willard Harris, north
OF Boydsville, sold a horse to Noah
Sacre, for SITS, and william Lee, Of
Mexico, took a fancy to The brute and
paid Mr.. Sacfe $500. Then Claude
Dunlap happened to think the animal
suited him and paid Mr.. Lee 1926. So
the horse was a money-maker on the
stock sales day market.
To give the reader some idea OF diff
erence between cotton mule sales this
time and those Of the same period
last year, about the middle OF Decem-
Der 1908, w. S. Vivion, OF Grand Prair-
lie, sold his bunch OF IS fat cotton
mules for $3.50 around, and this year
s. Hamilton sold little earlier
for the same figure; wills. Davis, Of
stephens Store, sold for sI33 80 In
a year ago, and this season
made a sale at sl35.
FROM LIVE STOCK REPoRTER.
II. L. Eliza, OF Audrain county, Mo-,
had 10 cattle and hogs.
@. II. Inflow, a well known Audrain
Mo-, shipper, had in a car of
A. J. 5. Harrison marketed two
OF lambs to-day from Audrain
Nc.
G. s. Mosley had a load of hogs In
days receipts from Galloway
Mo.
T. p. Harrison was a Galloway
Nc, patron who had hogs 10
he days big supply.
II. L. Elzea, a frequent shipper from
Audrain county, Mo-, had both cattle
md hogs in to-day's receipts.
]. II. Canada, OF Audrain county,
marketed Of his own feeding 1874 head
II s5-lb western yearIings that sold at
'6 40.
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