476 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



heifer and the imported bull Governor 4th 1293, 

 which had been in use in the Stone herd for a few 

 years. There were also about a dozen young bulls 

 which were sold at auction in May, 1879, at Kansas 

 City the first public sale of registered Herefords 

 ever held west of the Missouri River. The average 

 price was $256, and the purchasers were men who 

 had never seen a Hereford before that time. Dur- 

 ing 1879 a few females were added to the herd by 

 purchases from breeders in northern Ohio.* 



In 1880 a business arrangement was made with T. 

 A. Simpson whereby he became financially inter- 

 ested in the herd, and the business was subsequently 

 conducted under the firm name of Gudgell & Simp- 

 son. Under this arrangement operations were to be 

 conducted upon a more extensive scale and an im- 

 portation of Herefords from England was at once 

 undertaken. This importation of about sixty head 

 included a yearling bull for herd use, the remainder 

 being heifers, cows and calves. 



"A Bull With An End." A second importation 

 was made in 1881 of something over 100 head, con- 

 sisting in the main of females for the breeding herd 

 and about twenty-five head of young bulls for use 

 on a ranch in Colorado in which the junior partners 

 were interested. In this importation came the two 

 yearling bulls Anxiety 4th 9904 and North Pole 

 8946, destined to accomplish a very great improve- 



* Among other early owners of registered Herefords in Mis- 

 souri were Mr. Fielding W. Smith, J. M. McKim, F. C. McCutcheon 

 and J. R. Henderson. Messrs. Gudgell & Simpson imported and 

 handled Aberdeen-Angus cattle as well as Herefords for a time, 

 but after a few years limited their operations to the breeding of 

 "white faces," 



