| Show NEVADA AND UTAH HORSES The Good Points of Our tflountaiii bred Stock This is the best horse region in the world The whole of the mountain area of the arid section lying between Cheyenne Chey-enne and the Sierra Nevada range is especially es-pecially adapted to horsebreeding The altitude and atmosphere are just right Our Nevada raised horses have deeper chests and broader lungs than those of any other section in the world not barring bar-ring Arabia The hoof is also tough and is never known to break or split With good feet lungs and size the horse cannot fail to have endurance in 1 marked degree de-gree We have seen in Eastern Nevada the largest hardiest and best horses grown on the continent The following from the Northwestern Stock Journal on the subject in hand is both pertinent and interesting Utah and Nevada have for a number of years been paying special attention to breeding up and increasing their horse herds Bands of one or two thousand head are numerous in both sections The original stock was American mares and good stallions have been used to such an extent that there is scarcely a herd of horses to be found that will not average from nine to eleven hundred pounds Formerly the Copperbottomed was a favorite fa-vorite breed and every band shows a good many roans with all the muscles and good points of that once grandest of Missouri stock There are many Hambletonians among the youngest animals and splendid splen-did driving teams can be found among any bunch of cow horses on the range There is very little market in the West for these horses and our Western friends should make an effort to introduce them into the Easter trade marts A combined com-bined shipment by two or three breeders sending a carload to Kansas City and one to Chicago as samples would be a very proper move The endurance of our Western horses if once demonstrated to Eastern buyers would make them much sought after by the public generally and create a market coextensive coex-tensive with the present and future Who will act in the matter Eureka Sentinel |
