The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-11-14
CATTLE BUYERS
NOT ACTIVE NOW
Usual Selling Time Here, With No
Buyers In Vicinity; Rains of
Great Benefit to Sheep
Growers of District

w. II. Cooper, rancher of Pleas
ant Valley, cattle raiser, and one of
the owners of the Winnemucca meat
market, was in this city Saturday
from Lovelock, where he has re-
Gently put number of cattle on
pasture. Commenting on the stock
raising industry in general, upon
which this community is largely de-
pendent, Mr.. Cooper said:
"The ranchers of Lovelock grew
fine crops of alfalfa this season,
heavy, and of the usual fine fatten-
ing quality grown in that district.
Present indications are that they
will receive from ST to So per ton
for it, at which figure they claim
profits are insufficient. There is
one thing sure, however, and that
is that the price is all the stock
raiser can afford to pay.
"There are no cattle buyers here
or anywhere else in this immediate
territory. Generally buyers are on
hand when cattle are driven in from
the hills, which was accomplished
several weeks ago, but so far no
cattle buyers have indicated any in
tention of coming here to buy.
There seems to be general sur
plus of beef cattle in a worldwide
sense, and immediate Pacific coast
beef needs are being taken care of
from Wyoming herds, where the
price has been battered down to an
extent that coast butchers can af-
ford to pay the extra freight and
still be ahead This condition can
not be permanent, however, and re-
lief may materialize. soon. | am
not so optimistic, though, that | am
prepared to say that price increases
will be such as to make the growers
dance with joy. Far from it. Many
more cattle men are in financial
position to hold their stock for bet
ter markets, and that will help
some.
Cattle men and hay ranchers
have combined forces this year in a
manner that permits of holding cat
tie for better markets. This is par
ticularly true in Elko and Pershing
counties, where the cattle men in
some instances have sold feeders to
hay men, taking notes without in
terest payable when the cattle are
sold. A more general scheme is for
cattle men to put in" their cattle
at stipulated price, the hay raiser
to feed them at another agreed
upon price for hay, and when they
are sold to divide the profit or loss.
This is resulting in enabling the
cattle men to hold their stock for a
better market, where it could not be
done if they were forced to buy hay
outright At the same time it pro-
vides a gambling market for hay.
Because the cattle are not thrown
upon the market at any price OBJ
tainable, these arrangements are
bound to reflect in strengthened
prices in time.
1.-The recent rains, which were
SHOWS in the hills, were of ines
timable value to sheep raisers, which
industry, by the way, is looking
more and more preferable and
promising. The snow in the foot
hills permits the sheep men to range
their focks where feed is better,
the sheep eating snow in place of
drinking water. 1t is of course easy
to see that these foothill ranges
have been out of the question to
sheep raisers until the snow fell, be-
cause of the lack of watering
places.
"We're on the upgrade, sure
enough, but overcoming the after
war depression has been no bed of