Past and present of Menard County, Illinois .. . MR. AM) MRS. WILLIAM WILLIAM GOFF L\H FAMILY PAST AM) PRESENT OF MENAED COUNTY 203 also -lil mules enough at one time to buy fiftyhead of cattle. On another occasion he boughtten old sows for ten dollars each and after let-ting 111<-111 run in a lot fur six weeks he fat-tened them and sold them for twenty-five dol-lars each. He continued to feed cattle and. hogsEor ten war- and lias had some very line stock,his besl cattle weighing as high as sixteen andseventeen hundred pounds. He has alwaysmade money in the stuck business, for beinga
Past and present of Menard County, Illinois .. . MR. AM) MRS. WILLIAM WILLIAM GOFF L\H FAMILY PAST AM) PRESENT OF MENAED COUNTY 203 also -lil mules enough at one time to buy fiftyhead of cattle. On another occasion he boughtten old sows for ten dollars each and after let-ting 111<-111 run in a lot fur six weeks he fat-tened them and sold them for twenty-five dol-lars each. He continued to feed cattle and. hogsEor ten war- and lias had some very line stock,his besl cattle weighing as high as sixteen andseventeen hundred pounds. He has alwaysmade money in the stuck business, for beingan excellent judge of stock he was enabled tomake judicious purchases and profitable I860 lie bought fifty head of cattle forfourteen dollars per head and after feedingthem -M them for forty-five dollars per payment in gold at a time when thatcurrencj was at a premium. These he boughtin Kiin\ county and drove them to Menardcounty. On another occasion he purchased aherd of cattle fur which he paid fifty dollars per head and after f ling them he recei
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