476 A HISTORY OP 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- 

 %on. Tinder 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- 



•Amone other early owners of registered Herefords In Mis- 

 souri were^r. Fielding W. Smith, J. MT McKim, F. C. McCutcheon 

 and J. R. Henderson. Messrs. OudEell ft Simpson Imported and 

 handled Aberdeen-An^us cattle as well as Herefords for a time, 

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

 "white faces." 



