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Show -4 J. B. HAGGIN'S STUD .T REACHES NEW YORK NEW YORK. Nov. 27. The Rancho Del Paso stud James B. Haggin'e $1,250,000 jytyfh of thoroughbred brood mares, year- -figf. fillies and stallions after a 4000- ' ne journey in palace horse cars, with running water and gas Illumination, yes-Wdav yes-Wdav unloaded at the foot of West Twenty-sixth street. This shipment of. horses, 624 head. Is the biggest ever made. The cost of transportation, exclusive of equine commissary, and the wages of iV three score of attendants, was $48,000. The train crossed the continent in four sections. three sections arriving yester-dav. yester-dav. The first section got away from Sacramento. Cal., at 12:30 o'clock a. m. last Mondav. It reached the metropolis at 1:30 o'clock p. m. Saturday. The other ( sections were run out six hours arart. but' in the great distance covered the last sec-' sec-' tion fell behind and lost some time, n Is I, d le this afternoon. Mr. Haggln. who was ! present at the unloading, said the stock had arrived in splendid shape. The etud ii will be sold at auction. |