The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-03-20
nov ABOUT YOUR STOCK
The American Live Stock and Loan
Company Buys and Sells Cattle.

The American Live Stock and Loan
Company Buys and Sells Cattle.
What about your cattle for spring?
1t is not too early to commence maxi
ing your arrangements, for those who
come first get the best in cattle as
we'll as in other things.
For a good many years we have
been furnishing young cattle to
range and pasture men in large and
small numbers, M the longer we
stay in the business the more salts
factory the results both to our GUS
toners and ourselves, for something
can be learned every ytar.
Our trade with those who buy
in comparatively small numbers, es-
pecially in Colorado, Wyoming, Da-
kota and Nebraska, is doubling al
most every year, and we have dozens
of letters from our customers ex-
pressing their satisfaction in regard
to the purchases and treatment in
other matters. That is what tells
the story, and to do a business such
as we carry on there are several
things necessary. First, II must
know how; second, command sufi-
Gent capital to take care of the bus
mess under all sorts of conditions;
and thi-r, have the inclination to do
what is fair and just, and fill con-
tracts as agreed. All these qualifica-
tions this company claims for itself
and to any n interested enough to
enquire, it can be SO proven.
Now as regards to methods of buy
ing and selling. We never took kind
ly to the commission method of buy
ing these cattle, because people who
give orders to buy have SO many diff
ferent ideas, that it IS impossible to
out and pick UP these cattle in
lots, ship them in small lots,
and SO deliver them and get anything
like good cattle, good service or good
classification as where we become the
principal, by handling the cattle
just as a big store handles sugar,
coffee or dry goods. We go out and
buy steers from a breeder in big
quantities, perhaps three thousand
mead from one man; possibly ones,
tWos, threes, and some h%eifers. Such
a man will sell all he wants to turn
over, all in one trade, n delivery,
to one outfit, on better terms and
prices than to peddle them out in
jack pot lots. We buy cattle the
outcome Of which we know about
and thai people like. Then we 20
to the small buyers and say this COM
pany has contracted certain cattle at
a certain price; one carload or ten
carloads will cost you a certain price
laid down at your nearest railway
station, a.. charges paid, shipped a,
our risk and expense, delivered at a
certain date; these cattle to be as
represented or you need not take
them; furthermore, we are in a DO.
sition to make loans on these catt.e
II you desire it ana a furnish us
security that we can handle with tne
banks until the cattle are ready 70,
market. No commission charges!
No fifty cents per head every ST,
months! Talk about a good propo
sitfon, why when this compan,
started in to do bushes in this wa,
every outfit that ever handled a
spring steer had a fit, and thew ar,
still having them.
Some of our competitors have sale
that most of u business is will
people who have to borrow the mon
ey from US. We reply by saying tina
last year we handled more cattl,
than ever before in our history an,
that we have had less none loane,
out than ever before, and that on
business was so fine because me,
IKE the Keeline Bros, Of Wyoming
fitzpatrick Bros, of Nebraska; N. e
FRANKLIN, president Of a great ban
In Dakota; Senator w. A. Clark,
great cattle companies in Montana
and many others not necessary i
mention, the very cream of the cat
tie interest, recognized by the fac
mat u opportunity, knowledge an,
ability enabled us to do this bushes
better for them than they could d,
1T themselves, even though they wer
big buyers for cash.
We have been called SPECTATOR
by some of our envious competitor
-bosh! We are spectators if tn.
country merchant who buys a ca
load Of bacon and hams and retail
1t out to his customers is a specula
tor. We never tried to sell some
thlne we did not own; hence W.
buy these cattle outright and sci
them outright.
"a rev words now about buyiny
through someone or company doin,
tner business on a commission basis
When you give such an order, yo
cease to nave any control of wha
is bought. When it 1t is bought j
Is yours whether 1t suits or not. Yo,,
pay the loss on the dead or cripple,
cattle, and you take the cattle an,
your medicine along with them whel
they are turned " to you, regard
less OF what they may be or the cos
with absolutely no further respon
slbility on the part Of your agen
than to buy for you, whose twenty
I'VE dollars commission on a car
load OF yearling steers is by no mean
q small fee when you take all tn,
responsibility, expense, and loss
mere are, Of course, some very fin,
me In tails commission work, but i