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...Nevada's biggest land owners. He has 43,000 acres in the fertile Humboldt River country and federal grazing rights on a million acres more. He owns 11,000 subsidiary acres in California. His 14,000 cattle make him one of the state's biggest stockmen. His S-Bar-B, Quilici-Biltz and Nevada Nile ranches make him one of its biggest crop producers. And restless Entrepreneur Biltz keeps his fingers in dozens of other likely financial enterprises, from shipping to housing developments all over...
...Other stockmen waged similar battles. Railroads moved all available stock cars into sidings at Hugo, Limon, Boyero, Wild Horse, Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells and Arapahoe. Few ranchers were lucky enough to get more than a small percentage of their cattle out of the drifts, and many distant herds had not eaten for a week after the storm. As a desperate expedient, the Keystone Ranch near Karval had Army bombers try dropping baled hay to some of its cattle. After that seven Army C-47s began hay-bombing on a larger scale. As the cold weather continued, airlines passengers reported seeing...
...Stockmen, fearful that OPA ceilings might come back, poured cattle and pigs into Midwest packing plants. At one time trucks were backed up four miles at Omaha waiting to unload; drivers had to turn hoses on their stock to keep it from dying in the hot sun. As wholesale meat stocks rose to 80% of the wartime average, packers shied away from high prices. Result: 4,000 high-priced hogs remained unsold one day at Chicago's Union Stockyards and wholesale meat prices started down, though they were still well above OPA ceilings. Retail prices, which had generally been...
Cattlemen, crowded into Denver for the 1945 National Western Livestock Show, saw nothing at all unusual in this procedure. Both bulls were white-faced Herefords, the predominant Western beef strain and the pride of Western stockmen. In bringing $50,000-the highest price ever paid for a U.S. beef animal-the T.T.s Triumphant and Regent had hung up a mark for stockmen to shoot...
Meanwhile, North Dakotans saw more of Gerald Nye than they had at any time in the last six years, as he fretfully stumped the backwoods. But the grain growers and stockmen, who decide North Dakota elections, stayed away. Lynn Stambaugh, a rough and tumble speaker, forthrightly hammered hard at Gerald Nye's stubborn isolationism...