Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-04-28

continue until the entire quarter mil
lion dollars worth of the choicest of
Camas Prairie property has been dis
posed Of. The Company realizes that
this will be big affair, but this cor
poration is accustomed to handle on a
large scale and will provide ample
facilities to take care of from twenty
five hundred to three thousand people
on each day of the sale. They esti-
mate that it will take nearly three
days to complete the sale, and arrange
ments will be made to handle three
thousand people per day for at least
three days. Lunches will be provided
for crowd Of that size, and special ar
rangements will be made to accommo-
date all the rigs that will be on the
ground. A brass band will be Oh
hand to enliven the crowd during any
waits that may occur, and nothing will
be spared to make this the most not
able sale Of it's kind ever held in our
section Of the country.
The entire sale will be held at the
home ranch of the Bales-J ones Com
pany, seven miles north of Grange
vile, and the company will use every
effort to insure transportation facilities
from Grangeville to the ranch and re-
turn. Intending buyers from the out
side will be urged to arrange for hotel
accommodations well in advance Of
the sale. 1t is more than possible
that the railroads will make a special
rate for the occasion between Spokane,
Lewiston and Grangeville.
The exact order of the sale has not
yet been decided on but will be an
nounced later 1t is probable, how
ever, that the sale will starts with the
Wind Mill ranch of $50 acres, which
will be cut up into parcels Of from 12O
to 240 acres. Next will come the
Edwards ranch of 4S0 acres, which
will be sold in three quarter sections
Then the Nez Perce ranch of 16t
acres and the Mcdonald ranch Of 33t
acres, which will be sold in their en-
tirety. And finally the big home
ranch of 1120 acres, which will be cu1
into lots of from so to 400 acres.
The firm of Bales d. Jones, recent,
organized in Idaho and Montana as
the Bales-J ones Company, has beer
for many years the leading live stocl
company in the Pacific Northwest, thu
bulk Of their business up to the las
, two years having been handled OF
Camas Prairie. The decline of tn,
cattle business in this section coupl
a of years ago turned their attention t.
! the Montana ranges and they hav
; steadily increased their holdings il
| the Big Hole Basin until they nov
own over ten thousand acres in tha
vicinity, and in addition control b
lease over fifteen thousand acres of tn
/, choicest grazing land in Beaverhea'
! County. Their Idaho ranches are to
valuable to use for live stock purposes
and their success in the Montana fiel
has convinced them that it is for thei
best interests, as live stock merchants
to dispose Of their farm property i
Idaho, and devote all their capita
a time and energy to the profitable liy
g stock business in Montana. They WI
: therefore move their headquarters
n Montana before the first of the comm
year, and will locate their general 0
i fees at Wisdom. about sixty mile
:, from Anaconda.
Last winter the Bales-Jones Con
/ pany handled and fed over thrt
;. thousand head of cattle in the Bi
|. Hole Basin, and during the comm
d year their plans call for the hapdlir
e and feeding of from eight to ten thou
, and head.