The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-03-08
SALE OF MULES
TODAY PLACED AT
over 100000
MOORE 6 SON SOLD ONE PAIR AT
AUCTION AT $3.50. 0o-HiGH
WATER MARX.
PlCKENS PAYS 81, 900 FOR PAIR
Hays G. Wright Conduct Big Sale
With an Average Of $1ao for Wean.
ing Colts - Year,ln9s Averaged
$4,000 Per Head.

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Mule dealers and farmers of Maury
county thought that the top had been
reached in the mule market the first
Monday in February, but today has
broken all former records and it look
ed as If the blue sky alone was the
limit, and had it not been for a lit.
tie over cast of clouds which Is a
measure dimmed the vision of the
buyers and sellers, the prices might
have gone still higher.
Zedrick Pikins, of Bell Buckle, who
knows where to come to get the good
ones, set the high mark at one thou.
sand dollars when he paid this phe-
nominal sum for pair of black mare
mules on the street. These mules
were of the very highest type and
were produced right here in Maury
county. But r. F. Moore & Son were
a close second with a pair of mare
mules, one grey and one black which
brought $4,000 under the hammer,
the highest price on record ever paid
for pair of mules in this county at
auction.
These mules were run into the ring
and no sooner than they arrived. the
bidding began. There were several
bidders in the ring until the price
passed the $500 mark when it mar
rOwed down between two men, and
they hung on like bull dogs until the
last straw, bidding five dollars, two
dollars and even a smaller amount,
each hating to give up to the other,
but j. S. Caruthers, of Coble, Hick-
man county, showed more determine
ton than his competitor and the
mules were knocked off to him at
$4,000.
They were weighed and weighed
1850 pounds each, and were not in
extra good flesh They were as near
perfect as two mules could possibly
be gotten, and their new owner is as
pround of them as if they were solid
gold.
Moore & Son are selling one hun
dred and twenty-eight head. of work
mules and car load of colts and at
the time the sale was about one half
over it was estimated that the work
mules were averaging $3.50 per head.
The colts will possibly do as well
when they are put up for the hammer.
Hays & Wright, another local mule
firm, also held sale, They offered
thirty-six weaving colts which aver
aged $140 per head, and eleven year
lings which averaged $4,000 per
head, and twenty-five aged mules
which sold in pairs at $500 to $500.
The cheapest pair going at $500.
The mule son the streets were
bringing from $3.50 to $650.00 per pair,
and there were plenty of takers for
every good animal that was offered.
While there were not as many mules
as usual, still the quality was unus-
ally good and the buyers did not do
but little jockeing. The farmer priced
his mules and if the buyer thought
they were worth the money he took
them, and if not he went on to the
next man.
Just how many mules are changing
hands today is hard matter to
figure out, but it is safe to say that
more than one thousand were sold
and the prices will average consid-
erably over $4,000, possibly as much
as 1925 or $240 per head, safely MAX
ing the mule business for the day
about $25O,OOO.
A stranger was heard to remark
upon the streets. 81 have been to
Columbia nearly every first Monday
in January, February, March and
April for the past ten years, but !
have never seen anything to equal the
selling of mules today. This is un.
doubtedly the greatest mule market
in all of the United States, and the
greatest street market in the world"
Pictures of the mules sold by Moore
& Son have been taken and will be
sent to some of the leading maya.
zines of the country, showing just
what kind of animals can be produced
in Marry county