Show BIGBEALS 3 IN I CATTLE Purchase Made by IB K I Parsons Yesterday HAS BOUGHT 11000 HEAD The Stock Company Composed of Mr Parsons and A Honauer Makes Purchaes of Cattle Inf olving About S300000 Portion of the Stock Will Be Sold t Ranchmen in Montana and Idaho Rooservelt to Hunt on tho Eanch of Parsons and Honauer in Crooked Wash Country i I Large deals In cattle customary custom-ary at stockmens conventions are already being made Yesterday Manager I Man-ager m K Parsons of the UtahColo rado Cattle and Improvement company the principal owners of which arc Mr Parsons and A Hanauer purchased of ONeIl Brothers of Wells Net 1000 head of one and twoyearold highbred cattle Thc price is said to have been 522 for the yearlings and 29 for the twoyearolds The delivery is to be in itfay and June from the Sunnyslde ranch of ONeil Brothers Jn Elko county coun-ty which is said to be among the best stocked ranches in the West and one of the finest and most picturesque locations lo-cations occupied by stockmen This purchase follows similar transactions I made the day before by Mr Parsons I which included contracts for 10000 head between the ages of 1 and 3 years 7500 being obtained from John Sparks of the I SparksHnrrel Cattle company of Nevada Ne-vada lOO from Samuel Mcintyre and 1000 from the herd of Burke Brothers at American Falls Ida making a total to-tal of 11000 cattle purchased by Manager I Man-ager Parsons As the prices paid for I Fridays purchases probably do not I j materially differ from tho prices oCr yesterday the total amount of thc j j deals will approximate 300000 Mr Parsons staled yesterday that these cattle are from the best herds In the I I West and that he considered them the tops of the intermountain region About I 76 per cent of this stock is made up of I j steers and the balance are heifers These cattle are likely to be widely distributed immediately after delivery A good part of them will probably be sold to ranchmen in Montana and Idaho while the balance will he shipped to the companys ranges in Colorado one of which Is located in Routt county coun-ty and the Other In Delta county so thor th-or the Gunnison river The cattle sent to Colorado will range there until fall at which season only shipments are made when those fit for the Eastern market will be sold I Matt Datigherty of Nebraska looks for a good deal trading in live stock during the convention In talking ranges he stated he expected to see thp old free range rupture steadily restricted re-stricted until all grazing lands become i fenced pastures The stockmen In western west-ern Nebraska he says are coming thisrapidly and thousands of acre of Union Pacific railroad lands have been sold the Jast year to cattle and sheep men pastures who will maintain regular grazing |