The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1912-09-21
$l00, 600 FOR BEEF CATTLE
STEER BRINGS $50
This Locality Holds Record for Range Beef Picess1o
Comes Within of Grain Fed Beef PRICE. Time Was
Good Range Stuff Sold at s2S5. Railroads Looking
Closely After Stock Shipments.

The large shipment Of cattle which
went out Of Dickinson last week brings
to this locality fully s1oo. 600 and is an
important factor in the business of this
part of the state. 1t was matter of
sufficient importance to interest several
railroad companies whose live stock
agents were making headquarters in the
city for some. days. In previous years
the 500 had been getting this business
at Plaza, but the live stock owners had
good reason for preferine to drive their
herds to Dickinson for shipment to the
Chicago market this year.
Twenty head of the A. G. Elfstrom
steers, 4-year-old dehorned Herefords,
averaging 1,43l lbs. sold at $9.65 per
cwt., and his 1,241 lb. steers sold at
$8.75. The Ole T. Olson steers from
Elmgrove averaged 1880 lbs, % head
selling at SO. so per cwt. One l.. 800 lb.
steer for the same party sold at $40 per
cwt.. or gross amount of $3.50 for
single range steer Mr.. Olson's COWS
and heifers sold at 81 per cwt. II of
the T. G. Saunders steers, averaging
!, ,320 lbs. sold at SO per cwt. and after
deducting shipping expenses, netted the
owner SIP per head. T his is not bad
price for native grown range steers.
raised on the nutritious grasses of Dunn
county. Sam Glerup sold is head of L.
154 Id. steers ut So. rs and some at
ST.. 40. VIM. Connolly sold 28 steers.
1, $40 lbs. at SO. 40 and % head, 1,278
lbs., at So. IS; and 81 cows. 1. 064 lbs, at
$6. So. The Richards and Monroe steers,
1, 353 lbs.. sold at SO. 10. W. L. Rich
ards sold IS steers. 1906 lbs.. at So.
and As steers. 1, 080 lbs. at 81. The
Tom McGresor steers, 21 head, 1,4O7
lbs., sold at SO. 40 and 80 steers 1,246
lbs.. at So. 60. and % cows at $8.4O,
3 cows at Sc. so and II cows. 1000 lbs.,
at Sc. 76 steers belonging to Richards
& Wilcox. /, 1879 lbs, sold at So. 40, is
head. 1886 lbs. at SO. 90 and is head,
lab lbs., $9.15. The IL rs lb. steers
of M. S. Cuskelly sold at $780,
The sales were made in the Chi cago
market on the 10th. Some ten years
ago these same shippers would have
been pleased with half the prices of the
present season. In the PRESS beef cat
tie quotations of over 20 years ago are
several carloads of prime steers shipped
by Eaton Bros. from the Custer Traih
ranch that brought only $2.S5 per cwt
A little later &c was a good price and
still later when prices for live beef cat
tie reached nickle, the growers were.
walking on stills.
Another interesting fact is that grass
fed cattle from the range in Western
North Dakota sells higher than any other
grass fed cattle in the world and brings
in the markets almost as much as
grain fed cattle. The grain fed record
for beef steers is S10 go, which amount
was paid Charles E. Sperry OF Philadel-
phia, ILL.,. last week for 1.704 lbs.
beeves. This stuff was bought in Chi
cago for a high-class butcher in Bos-
ton. So it will be seen that the $40
stuff of Ole Olson comes within 90c of
the world record grain-fed beef price.