Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-15

sources, demands a corresponding ln-
crease of food, aud at present there is
no product of cattle anything like equal
to the demand. Beef can be raised on
the plains, and delivered at 9 cents per
pound; and until that is done, there
need be no apprehension of crowding
the cattle market That beet can ever
be had in our day 50 cheap as six cents
does not seem probable, and yet even
at four and half cents per pound large
! fortunes can be made in cattle breeding.
IL is only on the limitless plains, where
| Ian is Of little or no value, that stock
can be raised TO advantage But even
the plains, boundless as they may seem,
are fast disappearing before the advanc,
ing waves of p, pulation, Texas, the
great cattle hive of the country
during the past year has received
100000 settlers, and already cattle
growers there feel that they must soon
look elsewhere for untrammelled ranges
4 few more years like the pasta few
| deductions of million acres of pasture
| ands IN single season, and Texas will
| be 10 more of a grazing State than New
| York, Pennsy ylyania or Ohio. Yet com
pare these States aud how do they
stand now New York, with her set
Elements 230 years old, aud popula-
ton of 1000, 900, has us, 900 oxen
and stock cattle Pennsylvania, with
over 5000 900 people, has 72l 600 ;
Ohio. with 100000 people. has
40 900; Texas, with 100000 people,
| has $500 600 cattle alone
The great Platte Valley has over
100000 acres of rich pastures but
how long will these acres remain graz
ing grounds? The Union Pacific Rail
road has already divided these land.
from their eastern to their wasteen ex,
tremity, aud towns and silIages are
springing up everywhere along its iron
rails, and farms are being opened on
every side of them. Ii is no exaggcra.
tion to say that the population of the
| United States before the close of the
present century will probably reach
| 10000. 900 of people. Then there
will be no West to settle up, no great
stock ranges, but farms and cities, and
cities and farms everywhere. | predict
that those men who begin now by rails.
ing cattle on Government lands. and
are wise enough to buy portion OF
those lands as soon as they are offered
for sale, will find before they die that
these lands will be worth more TO them
than their herds ever could have been.
Your great Ohio settler, Benjamin
Wade, once said that he believed within
the present century every acre of good
land between the Missouri river and
the California coast will be worth $50
in gold" Wild as this declaration Mt
the time seemed, it has already been
realized in many portions of Nebraska,
and Is likely TO come true in all our
States aud Territories west of the Big
Muddy. Great, then, as are the for
tunes which are being made in cattle,
still greater will be the fortunes made
in land. Those who are wisest will
make all they can on their cattle, and
the moment the lands are for sale buy
all they can get, even If they have to
sell part of their herd to pay for the
lands. The Homestead Law precludes
the possibility of getting much land in
one body, but by buying out settlers at
fair prices. sufficient lands for grazing
purposes may be had for many years to
come.