The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-11-30
RAISED HEREFORD OF INTER-
NATIONAL FAME; LOYAL
CITIZEN OF STATE

breeder of international champion
Herefords, died Saturday evening
at a hospital here following an at
tack of erysipelas, complicated by
heart disease, after an illness OF
only few days.
Mr.. Cook, who was born "a
years ago in Dundee, Wis, for al
most a half century was promil-
ent in the political and industrial
life of Montana. He was one OF
the leaders of the republican party
in this state, and served as state
auditor from 1892 to 1896.
Mrs. Cook, who, with her daugh-
ter, Gloria, 13, was visiting in Chi
cago, was enroute to the east
when he took sick Besides his
wife and daughter, he is survived
3 by a stepdaughter, Mrs Edmund
D. Patenaude of Helena; step
son, Frank Hervey Cook of Chica-
go, and a sister, Viola Cook of Wis
consin.
Contractor
Soon after the Northern Pacific
railway built through Helena, Mr..
Cook became baggage master at
this station, Leaving the employ
of the railway company, he was en-
gagged by the late Hugh Kirkeen-
dali of Helena in railway construc-
tion contracting in the northwest
and Canada.
Pursuing the contracting busi-
ness, he passed from employee to
employer as a member of the firm
Mckenzie & Cook. The firm of
Mckenzie & Cook secured the con-
tract for reconstruction of Halifax,
Novia Scotia, after a disastrous
explosion and fire destroyed the
city years ago.
Mr.. Cook invested money made
in these enterprises in large stock
ranches and mining properties IN
Montana. He had extensive land
holdings in Broadwater and Mea-
CHER counties. His herd of Here
fords became KNOWN as the
worlds largest purebred collec-
tion of Herefords. He was inter-
ested in the Jay Gould mine near
Helena
Believer in Purebreds
Mr.. Cook, a firm believer in
Montana as natural cattle coun-
try and the opportunities that lay
in store for one who would build |
up a great herd of purebred cattle |
on the great ranges of this state,
began building a herd in 1907 that
developed champion Herefords
and eliminated in a sale only five
weeks ago of portion of the
Cook stock for S453,000 1t was at
This sale, attended by buyers from
all parts of the North American
that Walter Hill of Will
sail bought the prize animal of the
sale, Panama Choice 129," for
$1,000 !
During the sale Mr.. Cook had
announced that he was not sacr1-
icing any of his show stock and
Intended to rebuild his herd to it's
ormer proportions.
Cooks first actual taste for the
;attle business came in 1907 when
lie purchased the land, cattle and
lorses of the Flying U outfit own
ID by Augustus Heinze and locat-
d near Conrad in Teton county. s
In the same year the young cat
leman purchased from the estate {
f John B. Welcome Of Waterloo, |
a., 60 Hereford cows sired by t
)ruid and Druid 10th, famous
ulls of those days.
Returning to Montana with his
ewly acquired stock, Cook began c
search for a sire to mate his
ows to- Two years later he /
ound the animal he sought and e
Beau Carlos, in whose i
lood flowed the strains of Lord n
arling, Dan Carlos and Anxiety f
IN, all world famous bulls.
Combs the Nation e
For the next five years Mr.. Cook
as noted visitor at sales of
-ereford Throughout the nation j
I'D his presence raised the stand
I'd of the event, for it was known a
lat he sought only the highest
lality of stock, and frequented L
lily those auctions at which he
light procure such animals.
In 1911 the stockmen purchased e.
COW named Cuba which dropped c.
calf to become known as Cuba's
anama, which developed into a r
eat breeding bull in the Cook
ereford herd.
Always the cattlemen demanded
eed character which was to de-
'lop later Mr.. Cooks idea of II
eat cattle-broad backs, deep II
dies, wonderful respiratory ca IL
city, ample bone and that full
'ss of development in the rear d.
arter which gives the Herefords r'
cir famed two ends and a mid st
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