The Story of Ajax; Life in the Big Hole Basin / Alva Josiah Noyes

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...bitterly opposed to the manner in which I had conducted the assessor's office that he would not speak to me on the streets. Morse, however, explained the matter to White, as to the feeling engendered1 toward Roe by me and also told him we needed the money to finish paying for cattle for which we had already contracted. White gave us a credit of $5,000, so we took the cattle home. After haying, we made up our minds to buy more, as they "looked good to us." I made a trip over into the Bitter Root and purchased 550 head while over there; Mrs. Noyes and the children made the trip with some of the other Big Hole neighbors. We camped for a while with Mr. and Mrs. Will McCoy and had a nice visit. McCoy is now the oldest, or has served the government as range rider longer than any other man. We bought cattle on Red Rock and other places. A car load of full blood Hereford bulls of Kohrs and Bielenberg of Deer Lodge. We had, before this, purchased of Chas. Deputy two fine Herefords, shipped by him from Illinois. You must remember that we had only gotten a five thousand credit of White, but by fall we owed him $19,000.00, and by spring $27,000.00. That did not make any difference to him, as cattle were going up and we had bought them right. I had not been able to feed all this stuff on the Ajax ranch, and so my outside feed bills amounted to $6,500. The fall of 1898 we had 1,200 stock cattle and probably 350 calves. I did not believe that money could be made in running stock cattle at such a high altitude, as too many calves would be apt to perish from cold at birth. I proposed to Mr. Morse that we sell and pay our debts, and then run the place on more conservative lines. We could have sold for $36,000.00, which would have been enough to pay up everything, c...
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