The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 17, 1945, Page 10

PAGE TWO IT'S LONG TRAIL FROM OUT WHERE TENDER T-BONES THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ]\veekly auction to feeders, packers | and grazers. An auction in the average county seat town will sell cattle ‘worth a million dollars or more every year. Trades among ranchers, feeders | and brokers are usually on a “verbal | basis, and the buyer is inclined to take -the seller’s count. A million dollers’ worth of cattle may change hands in a cowtown hotel lobby in a single day—without the buyer seeing a Cow. The other day in a hotel lobby in Amarillo a cattle broker re- settled. I may have all T need.” When the waitress brought th two steaming cups of black coffes the cow men were far apart on the price. As the coffee went down in the caps the men came closer on price. Nineteen hundred calves changed hands. Then the cow men had a slight argument over the check, each wanting to pay it be- cause each thought he had out- traded the other. e e It takes all of this—swapping, breeding, short gri tall corn, youndups, and trail driving with cowboys and chuck wagons and U, - INVESTIGATES NEW FOOD RACKET Potatoes Dbn‘a:fed by Gov- ernment as Livestock Feed Go to Market MOUNT HOLL J—A new kind of black ms based on @ focd surplus instead of scarcity, is MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1945 We Congratulate the owners of Juneau's Fine New 20th Century ceived a telephone call from a man. ,y.janes—to make up the long peing investigated by the Federal who wanted to sell 3,000 calves. The ,.conpiy line that produces OUr covernment in Burlington County broker bought them over the telee- | ... \wherever or however a range gnd in the potato lands of nearby phone. A few minutes later a .,y js rounded up, bought Monmouth and Mercer Counties. stockman-wheat farmer dropped in. (. gyazed, or even stolen 3 Potatoes, bought by the govern- He wanted ‘calves for his wheat ;.c, 5 to make steak 0 a bag of 100 pounds »asture. The broker sold him the o . arm prices and given 3,000 he had just bought; neither e by the carload lot to dairymen had seeén the calves, and the trade If the tab should fall off the end . '% & By Gy feed, are find- s verbal. of your SUINE |40 their way back to market. witl 1 ish one-quarter 4 y oy ‘fien ke to ‘maks” their| Ti S Utrost the tp, Tet aty| Upliks riolt blsok magkes gom e e medities, which bring premium deals over coffee. They spar a little, E R i the seller angling for a high price prices, the bootleg potatoes have e buyer 'maneuvering for a been sold at standard quotationssto Jow one. During the current round- 1f you'd like to have some nice puyers unaware of their illegal up two 'white-hatted, red-faced frosted glasses, you can frost them nature and at cut x‘.vm‘ to those ranchers walked into a hotel coffec by mixing epsom salts with ve ravinz guilty knowledge shop in a small Texas town. “I pish and applying it to the suriace i 08 02 would sell them calves,” said one - g as occupation troops hyt 1 might keep them until e tha U, S. Army Education Program o, 1 S KO e on and trode trcining are two or the ) JeaItnus, OF : Coliau . Ly Al w0 enl he . ifi o v O e 'C.A;':/VUQSWX::: “T would buy a few calves,” said with cologne Akl e > % the other. “However, you can’t tell with cologne an into a ¥ what might happen. Mighty ‘un- curl. It will dry SUPER MARKET and wish them SUCCESS in their new enterprise . . shoestring, coat the thoroughly NORTH TRANSFER (0. salt will erase tea stains that Ha“liny v 0l n rems hins ) v up job main in china_cur Phone 81 curls & ing the hair : the hair, To avoid nicking the glaze in an earthenware pan, stir food with ;. a wooden spoon PRSP S e | major cattlemen iches more than a railroad. For him ndup means the long he depot. After the cattle mded up e going to rket are driven slowly over the Cowboys take along provisions a remuda of horses; their work is much like that of the old- ime drover, who sighted down the boney backs of surly steers at the North Star from the Alamo to Fort Dodge in the Eighties. So many ranchers have to drive their cattle t road there are permanent signated ranches CONGRATULATIONS to hers everywhere have some problems. The big one i The cattle thief is an 1 enemy of the he ROALD COPSTEAD and HARCLD BATES fact that s up in the house stler has never ceascd som in He is mechanized now months in lonely ;:. 1 - 1 i T t ip in and haul hey keep the windmills r 5 d R A le. In the 100 years repair the barbed-wire fences, sk 3 2 . i i I anger force has been edatory animals, such as wol B HIE lore AHET il cath e q joting arm of the watch after catt Y trails and rout \te Polige, there has never beer plan the things they inten 3 ¥ ' 3 1 at least one Range! do when they get i tov : s cattle rustler. ontke GRAND OPENING of Juneuw’'s New the buying ‘and ng ‘business and farmers community R o: B >V USSR S er was kep ) the calf would be animal. Harcid Bates a better bee chers sell their beef niimals as calves; others keep them ntil they are yearlings or two- 1r-0lc and some few graze On the Opening they are three to four and as big as Adam’s All rangemen cull and sell d cows and keep their best rancher on the treeless high f the Texas Panhandle sold 00 cows, calves and two-year-old| ifers and steers the other day. of the two- of the New 20th CENTURY SUPER MARKET We are proud to have had a part in the creation of this new ultra- modern market and wish the cowners every sucecess. are the in the spring In the mounts M. S ‘ - TRIPLETTE & DALZIEL s MaclEAN METAL WORKS ‘ F 3 " General Contractors Relrigeration Insiallation Juneau, Alaska Stainless Steel Work PHONE 703 Hereford: Hl e e S e e e e e country known annual auc tober, and Midy ers fiock into t i of Marfa to pay premium the Highland herd. T} are so valuable tr hipped out in spec