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FLATO COMMISSION COMPANY
LIVE STOCK SALESMEN AND BROKERS
Capital $ OOOOO.OO ,
I > ir < * tor : Salesmen :
F. W. FLATO , Ju , President. ED. II. RKID | . .
PAUL FLATO , Vicr President. JIM S. HORN \ Cattle bl J"n e
J. C. DAHLMAN. t ecretary. E. W. OAIIOW. Hog Salesma"
JOHN D.SEITZ. HUGH HITCHCOCK , Sheep '
ED. H. HIED , JOHN I * . CLAUY , Cashier
SOUTH OMAHA , NEBRASKA
Correspondents :
DRUM-FLATO COMMISSION COMPANY
Capital $500,000.00.
CHICAGO. KANSAS CITY. ST. LOUIS
STOCK EXCHANGE
BESTAURANT.
OPEX DiY AND MGIIT.
E. T. MILLEB , Proprietor.
LODGING FOB STOCKMEN
40 NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS'
2622 I STREET , South Omaha.
Three Doors From Corner
RA.TES : $1.00 to § 1.50 Per Day. Telephone No. 67
$5.00 to $7.00 Per We-k.
R D HOT H
MRS. JOHN REED , Proprietress.
STOCKMEN'S PATRONAGE ESPECJ&LLY SOLICITED ,
15thSt. Betar.en L andM Streets. South Omaha , Nebr
A Few Facts For Cattle Dealers.
It lias Leenjrepeatedly
demonstrated in
the past that
SIOU ITY IA.
Stands at top as a market for Range Feeders
You can satisfy yourself as to the. truth of that dtarement by
comparing the saies at Sioux City , last year , with those at any other
competitive market. You can also ask your neighbors who have sold
cattle at Sioux City. This year Sioux City is in the field for fat cat
tle as well as feeders. The great beef slaughtering plant of the
Cudahy Packing Co. Is ready for business
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No charges , except for feed ordered if your cattle are not sold on our market
The Sioux City Stock Yards Co.
JO UN H. KEENE , General Manager.
Millinery
and Ladies' Furnishing Goods
CALL AND GET PRICES.
CORA GILLETT.
COX
LIVESTOCK
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
SOUTH OMAHA , NEBRASKA
Itnoitt I OK e KUttf.
References :
ONION STOCK YARDS PACKERS' NATIONAL
NATIONAL BANE BANK.
Telphone 141
\Vehavealargeclientageamong Nebraska * Feeders and can always neat Omaha prices to
Ranch customers TF NOTIFIED BEFORE SHIPMENT.
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C. H. CORXJBIJL. President. M. V. NICHOLSON , Cashier
AN F VALENTINE.
Valentine , Nebraska.
A General Banking BcsinessTransacted
and Sells Domestic and Foreign Exchange
Correspondents ;
Chemical National Bank , New York. First National Bauk , Omaha Nebr
The DONOHER B
IB continually adding improvements and it is now the *
best equipped , and most comfortable *
FIRST-CLASS MODERN HOTEL
IN NORTHWEST NEBRASKA
Hot and Cold Water Excellent Bath Room Two Sample Room *
QHERRY QOUNTY
Valentine , Nebraska
Every facility extended customers consistent with conservative banking
Exchange bought and sold. Loans upon good security solicited at raaionabU
httei. County depository.
R § P A fliCS. President CH A RLES 9PAiS |
i WESTERN NEWS-DEMOCRAT
EOBEET GOOD , Editor and Publisher
A consignment of 130 head of steers
from Deer Creek , Oklahoma , was sold
on the Chicago market for $4.90 to § 3.80
per 100 pounds , thftr weights ranging
from 1,358 to 1,473 pounds.
There's no use talking , good horses
are getting scarce and all kinds have
moved up a peg this spring. In the
city of Pittsburgh recently horses have
been in demand and have brought
higher figures than for years. One
horseman is reported as saying that lie
could place a number if he knew where
he could buy them right. The market
in the country lias advanced more than
anywhere else as a rule.
If the troops in Cuba and Porto llico
are to be supplied with beef on the
hoof , the animals will , to all appear
ance , have to b shipped there. As in _
dicating the cattle situation in Cuba
the civil governor ot the province of
Puerta Principe says that before the
war the cattle in the province number
ed 700,000 and that now. although pas
ture lands are abundant and in fine
condition , there are fewer than 10,000
head in the province.
Jrouthern stock growers have started
a big enterprise in the shipment of cat
tle , for slaughter , to Havana. The
projectors of this new enterprise are
W. Or. Wart , proprietor of the Augusta
( Ga. ) stockyards , and John A. Darwin
of the Charleston , ( S.J. ( ) stockj-ards ,
who , after careful examination , have
determined to go into the business ex
tensively. The first shipment will con
sist of 300 head , direct to Havana , and
large ranches are to be established in
Cuba , on. which the herds are to be fed
and raised. National Provisioner
The National Congress of Mothers
met in convention the other day and
aside from other important business
brought up the seating of Congressman
Roberts , which brought forth the fol
lowing good and truthful words from
the lips of Sus in 13. Anthony :
' 'We have laws in all our states to
punish men who violate the laws of
monogomic marriage , but if we should
go to congress would we not find men
there who , upon investigation , .vould
be punishable under these laws ? Why ,
then , should we go away out to Utah to
seek-out a man to punish:1"
A resolution embodying the senti
ments expressed by Miss Anthonj * was
then adopted by a unanimous vote
The National Rural in speaking of
the shortage of cattle and feeding , says :
' 'I he cattle-feeding business in Illinois
is in a pretty ragged shape. We have
no beef cattle in .Illinois. The farms
are practically denuded of beef cuttle- .
It was not so I'meen or twenty years
ago. We ued to heiul out good cattle
by the train load. These times will
not return until we return to cattle
breeding and feeding for "beef. The
knowledge of cattle has gone with the
cattle : the men who gave their monej" ,
brain and time to the business are gone
with the cattle. The young men and
the children on the farms know prac
tically nothing of feeding cattle ; they
have had no opportunity to learn. If
we hold these high priced lands we
must return to cattle feeding. "
An editorial in the New York Jour
nal of Commerce says :
"The sale of 308 American beeves in
England at $97.58 to S100 per head ,
quite justifies the Secretary of Agricul
ture in saying that it would pay Ameri
cans to produce for export the things
that people abroad wished to buy. The
fact that this lot of cattle weighed an
average of 1,360 pounds , and not one
was lost on the voyage , and the lot ar
rived in better condition than they left
this country , shows that the animals
were Avell selected and were well cared
for on the voyage , and this inte ligence
and painstaking evidently paid. If
American horses , suitable for omnibus
work , will readily command $150 in
Liverpool and London , it will pay on
American farms to raise the kind of
horses that is desired. "
The cattle industry. This is a sub
ject that a series of papers could be
written upon every week in the year ,
the interests are so varied , our country
is so large. Long winters in one sec
tion with expensive feeding material
come in competition the same long win
ters and cheap feeda of Northern an 1
Western states , the long grazing and
cheap corn and cottonseed meal of the
Southwestern states and territoriesalso
the cheap grazing lands of Mexico and
some of the South American countries ,
where the plant or capital invested is
all or nearly all in the herd Free graz
ing in the Southwest and Northwest ,
cheap land taxes if any , the cheap feed
of the corn belt of Kansas , Missouri ,
Nebraska , Iowa and other western or
middle states , makes the rearing of
cattle in eastern states not a very prom
ising investment as practiced the past |
few years for beef pui poses.
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The supply , of cattle on ihe South
Omaha market this week was about
the same as last week , and the demand
for all desirable kinds has been good
I with prices firm. There was some in
quiry for export grades , and the handy
I weights were the easiest sellers. Cows
I i heifers , bulls and veals sold at stroll * ,
prices , and the limited supply of stock
j ers and feeders received changed hard ;
at good prices , many farmers desiring
cattle for the now rapidly growin
grass.
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j It will be admitted readily by a very
' large per cent of men engaged in all
lines of business that times have
greatly changed and that methods of
doing business have changed decidedly ,
says Spirit of the We.st. Now conditions
must be met. No intelligent or wel ]
posted man will doubt the above , yet
we have altogether too many farmers
and breeders who have made very few
changes in the method of producing
horses as regards breeding a higher
class and also in care of the colts and
maturing them for market. Somehow
or other the same ambition to produce
a first-class horse is not as strong as to
produce nrst-class corn , wheat or oats.
The impression prevails that the colt
will , some time or other , without much
care or attention grow into a horse and
sell at the average market price. There
was a time when this was true but that
time has gone by. From the time the
breeder contemplates breeding a colt
he must begin to carefully study all the
conditions. In the first place he must
breed to a first class , well bred , stylish
good-gaited stallion , and when the pro
duce arrives ho must count on giving
it the best possible opportunity to de
velop as quickly as possible and be
ready for market. The growing and
developing process is just as important
as the breeding , and unless both are
judiciously looked after and wisely per
formed the result will not prove satis
factory. As time advances other con
ditions will follow that will haye to be
met just the same as now. Conditions
at the present time differ from those of
twenty years ago. There is only one
way to succeed and that is to keep up
with the times.
The annual report on the division of
statistics , Department of Agriculture ,
contains the customary losses of cattle
for year ending March 30 , as follows :
"The estimated percentage of loss ot
cattle from winter exposure is 2.2 per
cent. , which is .6 above the average of
the last nine years.and the highest per
centage since 1890. As is nsua' . the
largest percentage of loss from ex
posure occurs in the Gulf States , where
the open winter makes winter protec
tion but little attended to , and in the
far western states where the range sys
tem is in vogue. The highest percent
age of loss in the entire country is 7.9
per cent , in L > uisiana. Arizona being
second with 5.9 per cent. The aver
ages are also high on thu Pacific coast ,
where they range from 3.6 per cent , in
Oregon to 4 per cent , in California. On
the other hand , deaths from exposure
in New Hampshire , Massachusetts and
Rhode Island are too fe > v to be report
ed. In Maine and Vermont they are
placed at two in every thousand head ,
in Connecticut at throe , in Xe v Y'o rk.
Pennsylvania and Michigan at five , in
Minnesota at 6. Ohio at seven.in North
Dakota and Iowa at eight and inS'is -
consin and Indiana at nine to every
thousand In New Jersey , Delaware
and Illinois the estimate of loss from
exposure is ten per thousand. The loss
of cattle from disease is placed at 2 per
cent. , which is .3 per cent above the
average of the last nine j'eais. The
highest ratio of loss from disease and
from exposure is reported in Louisiana ,
where it amounts to 47 per thousand ,
and running down to nine per thousand
in Wyoming and Idaho. The cattle
losses for the year number 1,865,176
from all causes and have been exceeded
only three times , and then the total
number of cattle on tli3 farms was
greater by several millions than at
present. The estimated percentage of
loss from winter exposure in sheep is
3.5 per cent and is the highest since
18UO. As in the case of cattle the per
centage of loss is heavier in the south
and on the ranges and ! > vest in the extreme - *
treme north. It is a significant fact
o
that in Minnesota and North Dakota <
where winter conditions are very se
vere , the losses are only eleven per
thousand , which is less than one-third
of the average of that of the United
States as a whole. The losses from disease
l
ease have been 2.1 per cent. , the aver
age for the past nine years beim ? 2.4 }
per cent. In the New England States
the loss was from thirteen to thirty-four
per thousand , in the states and terri
tories of the far West from four to
twenty-one , and in the south from
twenty-two to forty-two. The total t
number dying from exposure and dis
ease was 2,208,938 , which has foen ex
ceeded but twice in the last ten years.
The loss of hogs from disease was 8.2
per cent. , a ten-year average being 8.4
per cent , and a fifteen-year average be
ing 9 1 per cefct , " .
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ITIZEN8 - MEAT - MARKET
GEO. G. SOHWALM. PROP.
This market always keeps a supply of '
FRESH - FRUIT - AND - GAME
In addition to a first-class line of Steaks , Boasts , Dry Salt ileata
Smoked Hams , Breakfast JBacon and Vegetables
AtStetter's Old Stand on Main Street. VALENTINE , NEBRASKA
-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
| THE PALACE SALOON |
Jj ! HEADQUARTERS FOR
| WINES , LIQUORS AND CIGAPS |
W Of the Choicest Brands &
VALENTINE NEBRASKA
NEBRASKAi
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FEATURES !
Colonial People :
Birds , Animals. . .
Products , Homes :
Pain's Fireworks s
I OPENS AT OMAHA , NEBRASKA , JULY 1st , I _ „ _ _ _
CLOSES OCTOBER 3st ! , 1899. its , The Midway ,
® ' British
THE EVERYTHING BUILDINGS NEW EXCEPT Will Eclipse Last Year. | Godfrey's Military Band. . . . |
Highest market price paid and prompt returns. Reference
Omaha National Bank.
F. S. BUSH & COMPANY.
513 South 13th St. , OMAHA , NEB
We charge no commission.
31111 Prices for Ifeeil.
Bran , bulk 50c per cvvt $9.00 ton
horts bulk GOc per cwt $11.00 ton
Screenings 40c " $7.00 "
Chop Feed 70c " $13.00 "
Corn 65c "
Oats $1.00 "
If You Want toBuy or Sell
Jnve Stock , make your
wants known to the
Cherry Co. Live Stock Exch.
Valentine , Nebr ,
JONES & DUNN
Carpenters
and Builders
Woodwork of all kinds promptly
and carefully done
\n < ! repairing made u specialty
Shop at ' residence opposite the'
School House.
Give I us a Trial
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RAILROAD.
North-Western Line7 is the best
to and from the
SUGAR BEET FIELDS
OF
NORTH NEBRASKA.
Valentine House
J. A. HOC-TON , Prop.
Recently opened and newly furnished.
Not a restaurant , but a hotel.
$1.00 PER DAY
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The best of viands and treatment given
to our patrons. j
First Door South of Bank of Valentine ,
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Feed in Transit at Fremont ! I
Capacity : Sheep , covered
sheds , 24 : cars ; open pens , 15,000.
Oaitle 28 cars.
The place to rest and- feed for
the Omaha market.
Easy run to feeding points out
side Chicago.
Long distance telephone ,
Write or wire when you will ar
rive , to j
Fremont Stock Yards Co *
FIRST CLASS MILL
I have established a Feed and Saw Mill
! ) miles south el Cody , at the mouth of
Medicine Canyon , and am now prepared
to grind Feed , Corn Meal and Graham ,
cr turn out all kinds of Lumber and di
mension stuff , and Native Shingles
Give us a trial order.
J. F. HOOK
A FREE PATTERN
( yonr own selection ) to every sub-
scriber. Only 50 cents a year.
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2 138-146 Wast 14th St. , Ne * York.
C. M. SAGESEB ,
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Golden Sheaf Pure White Rye ,
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TokaAngeIlieaPortSherry and Black
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