Newspaper Press Articles

[Dickinson Press, June 8, 1889]

The Little Missouri Horse Co. intend to engage in the breeding of full blood Percheron horses and with this in view have purchased one of the leading and best known French breeders 25 mares and five stallions. These animals are said to be among the finest to be found in that country and are expected to arrive at Medora in August.

[Dickinson Press, October 5, 1889]

The HT boys have been on a roundup of horses this week. The ranch has about 1000 head and this season's increase which is between 500 and 600. The horses are mostly scattered out from the ranch ten to twenty-five miles, in bunches of 50 to 100 head, and in some cases two or three, or so, have singled out by themselves and strayed some distance. This has been a successful ranch business, and they are annually importing stock, of which thirty head were shipped in this year. as soon as the stock becomes of mature age it is shipped to the HT farm in Pennsylvania, where the horses are broken and sold. Until within about two years the horses have been broken on a ranch west of New England City before shipping, but on account of lower wages and the advantages of working horses it has been proved to be a saving to ship before breaking to work and they are only halter broken at the place of raising now.--Rainy Buttes Sentinel.

[Dickinson Press, January 10, 1891]

The Little Missouri Horse Co. located 40 miles south of Medora, has between1,500 and 1,600 horses on the range. The increase of stock the past season has been 75 per cent.

[Dickinson Press,May 20, 1893]

The Little Missouri Horse Co. has rounded up 1,100 horses this spring. This company has about 1,200 in all.

[Dickinson Press, August 25, 1894]

Mandan Pioneer: Mr. Geo. F Woodman of the Little Missouri Horse Company, located southwest of Dickinson, was in the city on Sunday, the guest of Mr. H.R. Lyon. Mr. Woodman was on his way to his ranch from the east, where he has been interesting himself in the sale of some of the celebrated HT brand horses broken for use in polo of which M. Woodman is an enthusiastic player and an adept. Speaking of the game, Mr. Woodman expressed the opinion that it was somewhat strange that the game of polo was not taken up in these western towns where horse flesh is so plenty and where nearly every man and boy owns a horse and does more or less riding.

[Dickinson Press, June 6, 1896]

M. Woodman reports a fine sale of Little Missouri Horse Co. stock at their Meadville farm in Pennsylvania. The company has some very fine coach horses, of which quite a number have been sold the past year for export to England.

[Dickinson Press, July 10, 1897]

Things are starting out lively at Gladstone. The Little Missouri Horse Co. have contracted with R.J.Turner for the erection of a stable 240 feet by 200 feet, having modern equipment's throughout. It is to have 600 stalls and will cost about $10,000. In addition to the stable there will be a large boarding house, a blacksmithing and general repair shop and a residence for the foreman. The stable will be the largest in the Northwest and will require 12 to 15 men to look after the stock. There will be a court in the center 100 feet by 208 feet, containing wind mill and tank. The principal reason for locating the stable at Gladstone was to get a large flour and feed mill, where grain and all kinds of feed would be cheap, the excellent character of the Gladstone water and accessibility of the place for getting large droves of horses in form the breeding ranch also entered into the location of this immense plant.

[Dickinson Press, April 7, 1906, page 3]

The old HT ranch was sold Thursday to the Pabst Brewing Co. or over $300,000. W.G. Clarke handled the deal and his commission is the largest to be paid any Dakotian to date. In fact he received a young fortune.

[Dickinson Press, July 21, 1906, page 3]

Mr. Earl Huidekoper arrived in the city on Thursday from his home in Meadvill, Penn. Mr Huidekoper couldn't stay away from North Dakota.

[Dickinson Press, July 28,1906, page 3]

Earl Huidekoper and W.G. Clark left for Fargo where they are interested in the fencing case which will come before the petit jury during the next few days. The case is a interesting one in that the Huidekopers are accused of fencing government lands without the permit of officials.

[The New York Times, July 29, 1906]

Fargo, ND, July 28. - A.C. Huidekoper and E.C Huidekoper, wealthy men from Meadville, Penn., and W.G. Clark of this state, who was their manager, were sentenced to-day by judge Amidon in the United States Court for fencing Government land in connection with the Little Missouri Horse Company's ranch in the western part of the state. The Huidekoper's were sentenced to pay fines of $1000.00 each, and Clark was fined $300.00 and to serve twenty-four hours in the county jail.

[Dickinson Press, November 17, 1906, page 3]

Wallis Huidekoper this week sold thru Quinlivan & Lytle 11,500 acres of the land lying south of the home ranch which is past years was used for grazing but since the arrival of settlers is of small advantage in the stock raising business. $75,000 was the price. Quinlivan & Lytle who engineered the deal have an established reputation for handling big sale satisfactorily.

[Dickinson Press, November 14, 1907]

The largest real estate transaction of the year in the state of North Dakota was consummated last Thursday when the famous HT ranch was sold by Fred Past to the Western Land Securities company for a consideration of $500,000. The sale was made by W.G. Clarke, the well known horseman and manger of the ranch. The HT comprises 70,000 acres of fine grazing land and in addition to this stocked with 1000 head of the best grade of range horses to be found in the United States. For many years the HT was the property of the Huidekoper family of Meadville, Penn. They built it up and made the ranch famous by the fine quality of horseflesh shipped from it to the eastern markets. Some eighteen months ago the Huidekopers thru W.G. Clark sold their entire holdings in this section to Fred Pabst of Milwaukee for a consideration of over $300,000. Since that time Mr. Pabst has disposed of the barns at Gladstone but the steady advance in real estate has advanced the price of the 70,000 acres to $500,000 showing a neat profit for Mr. Pabst on his investment. The Western Land Securities company is well known in western North Dakota as one of the leading firms transacting a real estate business in this section. The company has been instrumental in the settlement of Bowman county and the HT will be cut up into smaller tracts and put on the market in the near future. W.G. Clark is credited with being one of the best horsemen in the country, however, his side line of finding buyers for 70,000 acres ranches has netted him a comprehensive fortune during the past eighteen months and his many friends on the Slope rejoice with him in his well earned success.