Show CATTLE MILL GO HIGHER Experts Estimate n Great Shortage in the Beef Supply Those people who are on the fcnside I are of the opinion that the prices of j cattle have not yet nearly reached their maximum but on the contrary there are several notches still to be added before the present quotations will have run to the end of their line wi As one of the reasons for this prospective prospec-tive dd altogether probable advance they point to the reported deficiency in cattle throughout the United States and the increased demands which ire being made upon the chief markets market for not only slaughterers but stock cattle An estimate just made by an catte authority upon the subject shows that there are less than onehalf as many cattle being fed for market this year than was the case during 1894 I is stated that the marketable stuff ia but 43 per cent of what Jit was this time last year An Associated Press dispatch received in this city last even dspatch Ing conveys some idea of the conditions I T says condi-tions which exist in the northwest I saysHuon S D March 23 Reports from ranches along the Missouri river and In the Sioux Indian reservation say Chicago S1 Paul and Omaha stock dealers are Inquiring for beef cattle at advanced prices Last seasons drought made short pastures and greatly reduced the number num-ber of marketable cattle for spring shipment Cattle generally are in Car shape but need several weeks feeding I to make them marketable Most of the young stock have already been I shipped and few remain on the ranches north and west of here and they are I eagerly sought after A E Dericqles resident agent for I Clay Robinson Co tft for Dillon Mont last evening for the purpose of I receiving twentyfour cam of cattle I I which are going to his firm at Chicago |