The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-09-14

deposit of mostly fine sand impregna-
ed with alkah, in very high and dry
climate, and can never be used for any |
other purpose than the one for which it |
was originally designed the grazing OF
great herds and focks Of sheep, cattle,
and horses. It is also true that the
gulches, ravines, and river bottoms OF
the mountain regions west Of the Rocky
in California, Arizona, Ne
vada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and Wash
ington, will grow q limited number of
stock, but their pastoral facilities are
limited and destined to be very much
more so, because every acre of the ara
BILE lands in all this region will be i'm
peratively needed for the production of
vegetables and cereals for home con-
sumption, and quite large portion of
it is unfit for either agricultural or pas
toral purposes. But the great difficulty
in the way of making stock-growing on
the Pacific slope remunerative for some
time to come is great distance from
the Eastern markets and want of facili-
ties for the transportation OF its surplus
to an available market. This is SO
patent on its face, that need do no
more than mention it, and then pass on
to the great and ever-abiding advan-
tages of the great pastoral region east
of the Rocky Mountains, in this the
most important of all considerations.
The ultimate destiny and market for
all surplus stock grown in the Western
and Southern States is in the Middle
and New England States with New
York City as their market exchange.
The contrasting farmers Of Illinois, In
diana, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, and
Eastern Kansas and Nebraska, act as
middle-men between this natural pas
toral and the ultimate market, by pur-
chasing our stock and feeding their corn
as a means of condensing it into addi-
tional flesh, and thus marketing their
surplus corn in the most profitable way.
and Chicago is their exchange market.
The great central and natural pasture
is nearer, and has more facilities fol
transporting its stock to both the ulti.
mate and intermediate markets thar
any other. It adjoins the great corn
growing district of the Union, and fol
all time to come this nearness
and superior marketing facility will rem
der stock growing more profitable thar
any other. Texas cattle-growers now
have to drive their stock about 70(
miles to the Kansas Pacific Railroad fol
transportation. The stock west Of thu
Rocky Mountains is SO far distant tina
no attempt is made to transport to thu
great Eastern market, but, thanks tx
the Union Pacific and other Railroads
we have perfect facilities and reasona
BILE rates.
It is evident that all States east Of til,
twenty-second parallel are destined t.
be SO densely populated with q crop
raising and manufacturing people, AMI
i the lands so valuable that they will b.
compelled to yield the breeding Of stock
excepting it may be highly bred, TO
dairy and working purposes, to the ire
pastoral lands of America west OF tn
twenty-second parallel. Farmers O
lands East, worth from @25 to 5000 pc
acre, in a climate requiring four or fiv
months winter feeding on high-price
cut fodder, can not compete with stock
growers operating under sky that dc
mands no shelter, upon soil yieldin
, the winter grasses, where land Is CON
paratively worthless for any other pul
pose or at the most will cost but %. s
per acre, where Horace Greeley said
, 3-year old steer can be produced .
: cheaply as an Eastern farmer can fatte
spring pig. A3-year old steer can b
: produced in this country'at cost of 81
, $40 will transport him to Chicago, {
500 to New York, and pay all otht
! marketing expenses. Thus his net co
! in Chicago is $15, and in New York o.
I The growing of a like steer in nlino
+, would cost $40, or in the State of Ne
York $50; hence it will be far mo-
Q profitable for the farmer who desires
r market his corn in q condensed form
!. fattening cattle to purchase rather this
Q to grow them. Stock-raising easto Il
i twenty-second parallel can never, g
9 cept for the local markets, compete +
3 moment with those on the wide rang
q in this buffalo grass region, which
8 capable of furnishing ample pasturag
g summer and winter, for all the foe
: and herds in the world.
+ Goldsmith Maids Greatest Feat.
n On Friday afternoon about l, 900 pr
< sons were present at Belmont Park
r witness double team race and an I
'e fort of Goldsmith's Maid. to exceed b