The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-04-27
the general record remained in this
iffce, where it is now located.
The Herds Increase.

the general record remained in this
iffce, where it is now located.
The Herds Increase.
The estimated number of cattle on
January /, 1854, in the territory of
Montana was 100000 head, which
were valued at $21,0OO,0 OO. During
that year 100000 were driven in,
which, with the natural increase,
brought the total up to $4,000 head
valued at approximately S31, 900.
In 1871 r. S. Ford and Thomas Dunn
brought the first range cattle, LOO
head, to the Sun river country and
they were among the first to arrive
in northern Montana. The following
year 0. H. and D. H. Churchill ar
rived with 500 head.
John F. Grant, one OF the pioneers
of the Bitter Root valley, was about
the first known person to establish a
herd of cattle in Montana, at the con
fluence of the Blackfoot and Deer
Lodge rivers. In 1866 he had about
1000 head of cattle and approximate
ly 5000 head of Indian horses.
Charles Anceny was one of the most
enterprising and we'll known cattle
raisers in the Galatin valley in the
beginning of the business.
Robert Vaughn in the fall of 1869
went to the Sun River valley and To-
Gated a ranch on the north side of
the river, nine miles down the valley
from Sun River Crossing and near
the Leaving State station (now Sun
nyside) on the Helena and Fort Ben
ton road. This was the first entry
made in the United States land office
at Helena from Chouteau county.
~Poindexter and Orr began breeding
thoroughbred Duhams near Watson,
Montana, in 1872. Baron de Bonnie
main, a nobleman from France, who
first came to Montana on a hunting
expedition, was a prominent cattle
mar in the early SOS. He had about
5000 head and controlled a range of
80 miles in length.
When Cities Were Villages.
In 1880 the territory of Montana
comprised II counties, viz: Beaver
head, Chouteau, Custer, Dawson,
Deer Lodge, Gallatin, Jefferson,
Lewis and Clark, Madison, Meagher,
Missoula and Yellowstone, with a
total population of 4O,950. The prin-
cipal cities were Butte with a popula-
ton of 1852, Helena 1925, Fort
Benton, 1878. All the remaining
towns in the territory contained
from a few hundred to less than a
thousand people. Dawson, Chouteau
and Missoula counties covered all the
country contained in that section of
the territory Immediately south of
\ a do opd ou+nnd fno frAno TdohA IN
the Dakota line.
According to the most reliable sta
tistics there were 100000 head of
in Montana on December /,
1883. A year later shows a record of
895, 900 head of cattle as being in the
territory at that time.
Almost simultaneously with the
of cattle came the raising of
horses, so the "cowpuncher" and
bronco buster" were one and the
same person and the roundup not
only included beef steers and cows,
but horses as we'll.
The first we'll bred horses, that
there is any record of, were introduce
in Montana in 1873, by a Mr..
Campbell of Gallatin county. About
his same time, Nelson A. Story be-
gan raising good horses on the upper
with a bunch of about
head of fine California mares.
The Flock Master Comes.
The raising of sheep was next in
reduced but this industry remained
n its primitive condition until the
advent of the railroads, as did the
of swine. In July, 1873, Cook
Qrnfhnrc ho1 oha.4 I Enn had IF
iheep on their ranch, on Smith river,
n Smith Rive rvalley, IS miles from
lamp Baker. H. F. Galen, father of
he 0 Albert J. Galen, one of the
present supreme court judges of the
tate, bought a band of $500 head of
.heep in the fall of 1876 from a Mr.. s
jalhoun, who drove them into Mon
from Nevada. Mr.. Galen was
.lso interested in the raising of fine {
and cattle. II