536 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



found themselves in the possession of cattle 

 that were not good enough to command high 

 prices on their merits as individuals and for 

 which no market existed among those who had 

 been engaged in the mad race for "blue" blood 

 regardless of all other considerations. There 

 were a few speculators who believed that the 

 depression was only temporary, one of whom 

 was the late T. Corwin Anderson of Side View, 

 Ky., who insisted that purchases made at prices 

 then prevailing would ultimately show a hand- 

 some profit. At a sale made from Bow Park 

 at Dexter Park, Chicago, Oct. 17, Mr. Anderson 

 gave $1,000 for Kirklevington Duchess 23d; but 

 there were few who had sufficient courage to 

 take hold at any such price. The total number 

 of cattle sold during the year in America was 

 2,865, disposed of at the very unsatisfactory 

 average of $115. Of these more than 2,000 

 head were sold under the hammer of Col. J. W. 

 Judy. An illustration of the general desire to 

 liquidate was afforded by the fact that during 

 this season the Hamiltons of Kentucky sold 3% 

 head at auction at Kansas City at an average 

 of $109 each. 



Wealthy English noblemen and land-holders 

 still managed to keep things moving on the 

 other side. Mr. Fox sold Duke of Elmhurst, 

 out of the American-bred 20th Duchess of Air- 

 drie, to go to Australia at $10,000. At Lord 



