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{nJ.8eilCentral Oregon HorsesBringing Big Price*icI-n:en0e1»trnrtylt;\Hflt;1feCentral Oregon horse* for military purpose* are in big demand,! A {d#al was consummated Ia*t Thursday In which Evan a Wilson, home buyer* of St Joseph, Mis**ouri, representing the French republic, purchased approximately 400 head of horses from W. W, Brown, the well known stockman of Fife, It ia understood that the purchase price was in the neighbor hood of $24,000.The Oral of the lot bought totaling 168 head, were shipped Sunday morning to St Joseph and will later be dispatched to France whore they will be put into service. The buyers are in the vicinity of Paisley and Silver Luke this week looking over the field with the view of making further purchases.On their recent tour of Central Oregon, buyers have not been ho discriminating in their selections of horses suitable for purpose* as they were some months ago, This fact is attributed to the growing scarcity ofhorses in the stock sections of the country, For several mouths this year buyers hav« been scouring Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon and it is said that aval ail able stock to be shipped to theft j belligerent nations is rapidly decreasing. A majority of the i I horses purchased in the Fife' district last week were not broke 11 and the boras* will undergo thisI process before shipment abroad.During their activity in CentralII Oregon for the last several month buyers have purchased1! approximately 1,400 head of 11 horses, moat of which have been shipped abroad and put into army service, The estimated value of the horse* taken from this part 11 of the slate is $250,000.!| The demand* that arc being made on middle western packers 11 an well m horse men, it is believed, will cause unprecedented activity in the stock market thisfall Buyers representing botheastern and coast firms are expected to Central Oregon during* I the middle of the month to makepurchases. There fire plenty of cattle for sale, but supply is believed far insufficient to meet the demand. Just what the activity in the sheep market will be in problematical at the present owing to the high quotations on mutton. Bend Bulletin.Iilt;itt.ffrif.IictlnPo!Isdcitiwqiintisiainfttl•ffttlLi
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Burns Times Herald
Burns, Oregon, US
Sat, Sep 18, 1915
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