New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-11-21
How 81, 1000 can be made 10 Yield
100000 in Ten Years.

SAcOsVOV HI len ears.
The above is the title of n neat T,,1,
pamphlet Of facts collected and compiled bv.
Major William E. Sweet, late of the arm, of
the Plains, in relation to stock raising.
careful perusal of this pamphlet, containing
evidence Of the truthfulncss of its assertions
convinces US that the great West and South.
west offer the very best inducements to those
colored agricUlturists in the South who have
the means of removing themselves and
families. Not only TO the eolored people Of
| the South would settlement upon the Gov
ernment lands be advantageous but to the
colored people of the whole country. In the
North the doors of all trades are closed
against the colored youth, and he is forced
into mental service or starvation, or if. per-
| chance, he should learn a trade the trades
unions of the country intimidate employers to
deny him work. By the following extract
from the Philadelphia Press, it will be seen
that the cost Of a start in the West is COM
paratively trifling:
| Mr.. Greeley's favorite advice to young men
is strongly enforced BY little pamphlet re-
Gently written by William f. Sweet. late of
the Army of the Plains. Mr.. Sweet shows
how one with capital of only thousand
dollars may amass fortune of one hundred
and fifty thousand by emgrating to the far
West-COlorado, Texas, or New Mexico
and going into the stock business. This state
ment seems startling and certainly far tran
scends even the most captivating induce
ments which the Chappaqua philosopher ever
| held up to urban minds in the overcrOwded
East; but Mr.. Sweet proves it BY calculations
| based on statistics which we are unable to
question.
Inc cost of getting, say to New Mexico, he
estimates at $1,000, and of living for one
person the first year $3.50, including $50 as
| one-fourth cost of building an adobe house
capable of comfortably accommodating four
people. Of the 1923, 80 then remaining he
proposes that one-half shall be devoted to the
purchase of sheep, and that the remainder
| shall be invested in Mexican goats and An
CORA rams. These will increase, he saws, at
the rate OF $50 per cent. per annum; but eS-
timating the increase at only loo per cent,
the resulting flOcks, together with the yearly
clip of wool, at much less than current mar
ket rates, would be worth by the end of ten
years total of 1924, Mr.. Sweet then
provides that at the end of five years 81 900
shall be taken from earnings already made,
and be invested in cattle. This amount
would purchase 100 head, which by the end
of the tenth year, it is shown with equal con-
clusiveness, would net the owner $3.50 al
the prices Obtainable at his door. If he would
take the trouble to market his cattle himself.
they would yield him nearly double this sum.
The aggregate of the above sums, represent
ing his entire receipts from sheep, Angora
igo.ts, and cattle, will be found to be $685.
4SS. From this Mr.. Sweet deducts thirty
per cent. as the cost of production, losses,
&C., leaving sl63. 442 as the net profits of the
investment of 81 900.
The casual reader, accustomed to the conf
paratively small gains of capital in the un-
favored section Of our magnificent empire,
will doubtless be disposed to regard these
figures as partaking largely of Munchausen
character; but they are amply confirmed by
the recorded instances of the successes actu-
. ally achieved by enterprising men in the
same business within the past seventeen
. years. Before deciding against the posi-
bility of acquiring fortunes so rapidly in the
States and Territories on either side of the
: Rocky mountains, it must be remembered
D that stock there have an almost unlimited
range on splendid grazing lands belonging to
the Government, and that they need neither
q housing nor feeding at any time Of the year.
l Whether the large amount Of profits eSt-
mated by Mr.. Sweet would be realized in
0 the space of ten years may be questionable,
but enough is shown to prove that an indie
pendent living above the degrading influences
G of mental service can be had with the strong
q est probability of attaining wealth.
d Mr.. Sweets pamphlet contains important
suggestions to breeders of stock, along with
several pages of other highly entertaining
and useful information. 1t can be had ut
any 1irst-class booksellers for thirty-five
cents. We advise our readers to invest
thirty-five cents in this pamphlet and investi-
gate the subject.