Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — McCRAY SALE TOTALS #204,225 [ARTICLE]

McCRAY SALE TOTALS #204,225

Would Be Interesting to Know What Cattle Were Taxed At. Kentland, May 22.—The tenth annual sale of fine show and breeding cattle held by Warren McCray , at Orchard Lake Stock farm near here today, netted $204,175. Twenty bulls and filty-flve cows were sold, the prices ranging from SI,OOO to $10,300. All were Herefords. The average price was $2,722. There were buyers here from practically every state in the Union and some from Canada. The sale attracted the largest crowd since Mr. McCray inaugurated the public gelling of cattle at his farm. It was estimated that more than 4,000 persons were there. Colbert Fairfax, a 'bull, was sold to D. A. [Hess of Council Bluffs, lowa, for $10,300. Superb Fairfax, another bull, was sold to J. E. Coffman of Linart, Illinois, for SIO,OOO. The cow bringing the highest price was Columbia March On, sold to Cross & Son of Walnut, lowa, for $6,300. Last year when this annual sale was held at Orchard Lake farm, one bull sold for $1 7,000 and the sale totaled $131,000. And yet Mr. McCray’s total personal assessment on his Orchard Lake farm, including tools, hay, grain, horses, mules, hogs and 265 head of cattle was but $ 17,0001 The cattle alone were assessed at $13,000 and sev-enty-five head of these sold for $131,000, too! Perhaps the sev-enty-five head sold last Wednesday and which brought nearly $75,000 more than the seventy-five head sold last year, were assessed at even a lower figure than $13,000. It doesn’t seem right to The Democrat that this McCray stock should be assessed at butcher prices, but this has evidently been his custom in giving in his fancy stock, and he has gotten away with it. Mr. McCray is a prominent Republican politician and has twice been an aspirant for the governorship of Indiana. Governor Goodrich is appointing him on a number of patriotic committees, and yeit he is morally a tax-dodger and his bank, The Discount & Deposit State Bank of Kentland, with resources of perhaps $500,600, subscribed for but $2,000 Treasury Certificates as shown by the Federal reports in another column, a smaller amount than any other hank in Newton county, not excepting the little Bank of Mt. Ayr, which took $3,D00 of these certificates!