FIRST HEREFORDS ON THE RANGE 711 



country was of course still unfenced and practically 

 unoccupied. This herd consisted mostly of Short- 

 horns, but a few were one-half and three-fourths 

 blood Herefords. The bulls, some twenty in num- 

 ber, were all good registered Herefords that had 

 cost from $300 to $600 per head. Mr. Nelson 

 reached the range with this herd about June 1, 1883, 

 having been on the trail from Dodge City for six 

 weeks. About August 15 of this same year he sold 

 the cows to Mr. Goodnight for $75 per head, count- 

 ing calves ; that is, each cow and calf brought $150, 

 the dry cows and heifers $75, and the bulls were 

 turned over at $250 per head. 



This good lot of cattle was turned in with the JJ 

 herd, and the Shorthorn bulls were all taken out 

 and replaced by registered Herefords. These were 

 the first Herefords brought into the Panhandle, ex- 

 cepting a few that Nelson had taken down in the 

 spring of 1882. 



The Price Importation. In the summer of 1883 

 Finch, Lord & Nelson arranged with J. E. Price & 

 Son of Williamsville, 111., to make a joint importa- 

 tion of Herefords from England, and sent "Ned" 

 Price over to locate them and see what they would 

 cost. Mr. Nelson was to have joined him later, but 

 owing to press of business did not go, so that Price 

 did the buying and importing. This lot numbered 

 about eighty bulls and twenty cows. Out of this 

 importation there were sold to Adair & Goodnight 

 and delivered at Wichita Falls, Tex., in March, 

 1884, forty bulls at $400 per head. Finch, Lord & 



