The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-08


the mountains, at this hOspitahle man.
sion. M III
1 fdund mine host to be a welLtn.
formed, affable Gentleman. Ills ideas
are as broad as his acres; and, onns ider-
ing his experience as a silk merchant
in London, IL Is interesting TO see the
the zeal he manifests in the breeding OF
hue cattle and sheep. He is justly very
fond OF his fine imported black-polled
Angus bulls, brought from his 'natfYe
scotland, and said to be OF superior
duality Tor beef. Phese catrie, az little
distance, might easily be mistaken for
the native Dutfaloes, which for LhouS Sanass
Of years have roamed aud ted on these
very pastures. The grass here, and On
westward to the Rocky Mountains, is
seldom killed BY frost in hhe fall, aud
Derlce becomes nutritious uncut hay,
atfording excellent pasturage in win.
ter.
Mr.. Grant stated that these bulls had
reserved no food for over ayear. seXgept
what they themselves found on thu
prairie, and they were ali Hat. A few
shorI-horned Durham bulls we're herd
ed with them, aud IL was noticeable that
the black-polled Angus Were in the best"
condition. It's claimed that this breed
is superior both torlthe dairy and for
weight and quality Of beet; as we'll az
early fattenIng. U-. ="
The success of this experiment ia i'm.
porLanG not only to the cattle men Of
Kansas aud Colorado and the beef
packers in Kansas City and Chicago and
| st. Louis, but also to the beet-eaters
IN New England aHd OLD England. -
A few years ago, when ibis magnitt--
cent landed estate was purchased by a
single man, it would have been regard
/ ed wild conjecture to have said tnat In
the year 1877, fresh beet, tattened on the
prairie grass OF Kansas and Colorado,
would be- sold in Liverpool to supply the
tables Of the beef-eating Englishman; yet
such is now the TACT. Moral-''Go West,
lyuung mani 60 West" lMlne host might
add ny way OF better advice--First, get
rich as a silk merchant, and then 60
| West.
| did net nave the pleasure of seeing
the ma herd of cattle, about Thousand
Fin number, as they were grazing upon
another. part OF the farm, some twenty
jmlles distant. The seven thousand head
of sheep were also on some other part Of
tIe premises, under the care Of herdss
meI.
| l did see splendid fields OF wheat and
corn ,milleJ and oage-yne hundred acraG
mere, two hundred acres there and
others of various sizss--dottlng the
charming landscape that lB seen fer
miles and miles on both sides OF Victoria
river, like gems worked and set by the
hand OF man in tire green bachgfounu OF
natures haudiwerk. H.lt d
| Mr.. Grants residence 10 a subs tantial
stone ediice, with a Yerandah on three
sides, situated on ridge OF prafrier
about half mile south OF Victoria creek,
and commands an extensive view OF the
Surrounding country, and pears uns
|mistakable MARKS of English archltecta
lure. A few miles east of the mansion
mouse is the site of old Fort Hays. now
dismantled and made into an extensive
sheep corral, and a very satisfactory
Ievidence OF advancing civilization.
On the second day after my arrival
bade the hospitahle proprietor Of Vic
loria Colony good-by, ana went to
Hay City, some Ten miles distant, where
| awaited the midnight train for Denver.
Al Hays City there has lately been
located d United States land office, and
siuce the panic of 1873 the old Keystone
State has been sending many OF her
skilled africans, who were tqroWni 0ut
OF employment by the great collapse In
her iron and other Industrial interests,
to this agricultural and pastoral region,
where, by "striklngo great honest blows
upon the mother Earth, she has re-
spouueu ny giving loI eh an apuhuahce VI
iood for all that are there, and much to
spare for those who are yet suffering in
the forced idleness Of the more thickly
settled East. ...u D IT,
At Wallace the sleepy. passenger on
: the Kansas Pacific is awakened by the
!, welcome sound-"Wattaco! twenty
minutes for breakfasts" and anon you
hear the words, ''yenison, antelope, beef
, steak aud chickens, and mutton cnOps.n
,, One is torcibly reminded Of the clown
= = who boasted that he had four kinds oil
y meat tor his breakfast-'ram, lamb,
y sheep and mutton" They are all so good
and well prepared tnaE when you pas
= one dollar for breakfast you are heard
to soliloqulze, "Well, L am twenty.hye
: cents far thGr West" ..r... .,...