The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-07-12
COFFIN BABcOCk LAND
AND LIVESTOCK COMPANY
Company Formed to Garry on the
Business Of q Small Empire
Holdings Aggregate @3OO,OOO.

A. w. CONN ana II. 3. CONN OF
North Yakima, L. F. CONN of Lewis
ton, Idaho. and w. H. Babcock of
Walla Walla, are the incorporators
of the fin-Babcock Land & Live
Stock company, whose articles OF in
evaporation were recently filed in
this county The names of the in
corporators are in themselves a
guaranty of straightforward dealing,
honest and capable business man
agement, and are an assurance that
the company will succeed in this en-
terprise, as the members have sue
ceeded in every one of the previous
big business undertakings with
which they have been connected. The
deal was made possible through a de-
sire on the part of Mr.. Babcock to
retire from the active management
of so extensive business, and the
desire on the part of the Coffin
brothers to go into sheep raising
more extensively than they ever had
before The lands included are in
Kittitas. Douglas and Chelan coun-
ties, the range and live stock head
quarters being at Tinidad postoffice.
Coffin Brothers will hold the con-
tolling interest, 900 of the 5000
shares, and are offering 400 shares
for sale, confident that good profits
will result for those who invest with
them.
The direct management of this in
vestment will be with the president,
Mr.. H. Stanley Coffin, at North Yaki-
ma, Wash, where the books and
stock subscriptions can be seen at
all times by the stockholders. OFF,
GERS of the company for the present
draw no salary, as the Coffin Bros.
will hold a majority of the $780,
900 stock, and are anxious to make
everything a great success. Mr..
George Finn. of Prosser, Wash,
has been engaged as the superintend-
ent of the land and livestock. He
has had twenty years experience
with castle and sheep, is economical
and can be depended upon to make
everything count for the best inter-
ests of the company.
The charging of forest reserves
and the closing of the same in
measure to livestock will make the
running of cattle and sheep on
large scale impracticable to many.
1t is expected by owning this large
tract of land that this company will
be in position to make money
where less fortunate stockmen can
not, and that land as we'll as sheep
and cattle will steadily increase in
value.
Besides the $4,000 acres of decided
land there is in the fence $4,000
acres of leased land. This Is
very valuable addition to the COM
pany's holdings.
The Landing range is the best in
the state, being protected by hills,
the sides of which are covered with
early tender bunch grass and other
smaller grasses which produce a good
supply of milk in the ewes, insur-
ing early large lambs. The sheep
arc never short of good feed, follow
ing the foothills on up to the highest
mountain ranges as the warm
weather comes on. 1t will be the
object of the manager to use the out
side government. state and railroad
lands as much as possible, reserving
the company's fenced range, allow
ms thick growth of grass. In the
fall the sheep are brought down
slowly from this range and on good
q ass all the distance. and taken back
across the river to the fall and winter
range again. There is no other
sheep range where the summer and
winter range can be used, connecting
together as this does, most sheep
men having to drive hundreds of
miles over dry and dusty roads to
ger to their summer range, result
ing III great injury to their flocks.
1t is estimated that on all of the
company's land holdings there are
over 50.000,000 feet of timber,
stumpage of which is now being sold
to saw mill on the land at $500
per thousand. which will show a
large profit. Throughout the timber
and summer range there are timothy
and clover meadows. The seeding
of these lands by the government
experiment station at no cost to the
company is quite an item.
Rev FIR Brusten, s. j., visited