The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1873-10-24
But fortune smiled upon the firm o.
Grigsby & Adams And when Fall came

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north OF San Antonio several hundred
y head OF cattle-mostly two-year old--
bearing on their launches the cauterizrd
scar they bad bought for $500 a. time
wore on they were still successful. Their
cattle wntereI well No norther came to
them to blast with it, icy breath tie fruits
Of their venturesome toll and sturdy IA
thence; no Kiowa came hunting across the
trackless panpas with his scalp lock quak.
ing Ia the breeze and his war-whoop split
ting the air, 10 stampede their herds or
sculpture 10y the couonwoods, with the
huzzards ami coyotes TOR muurner-. And
rs the Summer and the Winter came
aud went again, old Matt and Young All.
ans found themselves getting well to 20 ia
the world. The cold some stock into a
: big drove, and put the money where it
would do the most good--iu \ reinforce
heht OF young calves And so they
wrought aud watci 90 and waited
I Tor four years, until the band they
had bought tor $500 became rated among
the thousands Grigsby d Adams was
getting rich. But young Adams was get
ung restless. His aged mother, whose on
ly boy he was, worried about him Some
one who lived over across the Illinois
prairie rom his home WAS citing anxiou.
toe for lt WAS now seven years since she
had given her troth to the bearile-s vol
unteer, aud she thought she had waited
/ long enough. All this came to Adams in
long letters 1t such intervals As horseback
jOu neys could be made from the range TO
the postotlice 80 miles away, and he wan.
ted to sell out and 90 home aud settle
down But Old Ms It demured lie thought
they were doing powerful well. and il WAS
better to hang on another year aud double
their pile. Finally one day old Matt came
back to the camp from long trim. He
had been clear To- Austin Ia Austin he
met man from OLD Kentucky. and tins
man had told him that his mother. eighty
almost blind, with no one let TO lean nm.
on rs she passed down 10 the river a little
way beyond found an apology Tor a home
with some distant kindred who were pa
tiently waiting for her 10 die. Matt was
moodier and more taciturn Than ever. now
The next day lie mounted his mustang.
and when he came back in the course OF
three days he knew just what the firm of
HrlIsby ~ Adams was worth. He was
ready to Weld to Adams and sell ont II
was not difficult 10 find purchaser then.
Tor 1t had begun to he noised abroad that
there was money, mIuts of il, in Texas cat
Tie 50 there WIS activity for few iays
on the Hrigsby " Adams range. The cat
tie were corraled, the steers fl E, drive
were picked out aud driven away out
on the an.e The stock cattle cow.
calves, yearI'u-s, etc, representing the
band, were sold to a couple of rancher.
FOR twenty thousand dollars. And old
Matt and Young Adams took the CHS
holm taiIwith DO head of steers for the
Kansas City market.
As they moved slowly uorthwad with
their boot aud horned wealth in front of
them, and the proceeds Of the sale of their
brand ia their -adiie-bag-. each busted
his brain with his own day dream of their
near future. Young Adam. dream had
IN 1t the comely image of q Luxom l..i.
nois girl 100 the fore ground. who had been
waiting for him these seven wears. since
he had gone away iu -jxty.tvo And his
mother and little sisters. 100 their poor lii.