The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-11-17
SALMON RIVER
STOCK WEALTH
Sales for Year 25O,OOO; Feed
Conditions Mater
tally Changed.

The Lewiston Tribune of yester-
day gave forth the following inter
view with Seth Jones, the substance
OF which the Globe published sever
al weeks ago from an interview with
Mr.. Tnes, but it will do to repeat;
The stockmen of Idaho county have
this year received approximately
$25000G from shipments of cattle
and hogs made since the first of the
year. This is the estimate made yes
terday by Seth jones, of the firm of
Jones & Behean, prominent stockmen
of the Salmon river country. The
prices for the year have been good
and Jones & Behean have received
over $4,000 for shipments sent out
from their ranch.
AT the present time buyers are
offering s cents for hogs, $4.75 for
steers and 81 for cows" said Mr..
Jones yesterday. These are good
prices and the stockmen have made
big profits for the year. One ship
ment of cattle made by our firm
in July brought cents per pound
and the stock was taken from the
grass range to the shipping corrals
In this shipment there were 800 head
and the average weight was 1887
pounds, or an average return of $64-
.S5 per head.
The shipments have been very
heavy throughout the season and
there is a little shortage in cattle
just at this time. but the output of
cattle from the Salmon river country
is going to increase rather than de-
crease. as has often been predicted
It is true the industry is temporarily
embarrassed by the invasion of sheep
and the day of the big cattle ranch
is passing. but every small ranh will
have cattle and the annual output
will exceed the records of the palmy
days of the cattle industry in the
Salmon river country.
"The keynote to the situation is ir-
rigation, and that one word has saved
the cattle industry i'm our section. A
few years ago there was no such
thing as winter feeding. The cattle
were kept ON the low ranges during
the winter and with the opening of
spring were worked back toward the
high mountains and as fall ap-
preached they were ranged toward
the low winter ranges. We did not
have a ton of hay on our ranch ex-
cept for the horses. and most of the
feed the horses got was from the
ranges. 1t rs different now, and this
year we will feed at least 400 tons.
The low ranges that formerly sup
Piled the winter pasture are now re-
served for the early spring and we
find that three times as many cattle
can be fattened there in the spring
as could be maintained ON the same
area during the winter. The loss
from rolling has been eliminated and
during the summer the mountains
offer the same range as in former
years.
The ranchmen in the Salmon river
valley are irrigatmg the river bottom
lands with water from the river and
the small streams are being employed
to irrigate the low benches. The re-
suit Is that from three to four crops
OF alfalfa are harvested each year
9nd the land that formerly was of
practically no use to the stockman
rs now providing the winter feed for
thousands OF head of cattle.
The people of the Salmon river
country. generally speaking, are en-
ergetic. and prosperous. They are
rugged pioneers who settled the
country when railroad transportation
was about as remote as the moon.
When they have put their hands to a
thing 1t has been with energy and an
earnestness of purpose. and the ques-
tion of irrigation has been taken up
IN the same definite manner. There
Is no doubt as to the result. There
viii be smaller ranches. more cattle,
more people ard better conditions
generally"