The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-10-30
stOck-raising in Colorado.

StOck-raising in Colorado.
1t is carried on, as must be generally
| known, from Texas to a region consid-
erably north of the Union Pacific Rail
way, and great cherds 0passs from the
Lone Star State through Kansas, -andHp
to the great iron roads running east and
west In New Mexico, in, Southern
! Colorado, on the Arkansas and its tribu-
tariesLthe Fountain, the st. Charles.
the Muddy, the Cucharas, the Hue4fafio
and others-in the great parks over
acrosstthe range, and over the plains In
Colorado Nebraska, and Wyoming, the
herds roam, and the rGascker0S ride.
Between Denver and JuleSburg, on the
Union Pacific Railroad, lay the immense
range of tlIe=lffte Afr-Aylfffe, one side
of which was fifty miles in length He
I is said to have begun fifteen wears ago
with a capital of 800, and his estate is
valued at S1,500,0O0. It was interest
ing and instructive to hear how one of
his friends accounted for this unusual
success: g Some people try to attend
to several things, or to do more than one
kind of business, but he only thought of
one thing for those fifteen wears. and
that one thing was cattle. And attend
ing only to that, and working at it and
thinking about it all the time, he came
to understand it wonderfully well, and
TO have perfect Judgment about making
the most of stock -
A dissertation on the cattle herds of
the Great West would occupy a large
volume, and those who have chosen 9th
er parts of this domain than Southern
| Colorado are doubtless competent to
- give a reason for the faith which is in
| them,n and amply support the. wisdom
of their choice of location. To us this
I same Southern Colorado seems to pre-
| sent, on the whole, the greatest advan-
/ tages. It is traversed by railroads, and
accessible from all sides; and the eli
mate is most salubrious, and so mild in
winter that the stock can remain on the
| range throughout the year. Other things
being equal, there are many men who
! highly prize the grand eYer-present
| spectacle and genuine cOmpaniOnship of
the everlasting hills" No doubt in
other regiohs land can be had more
cheaplysand sometimes occupied with
out fee-e or reward, but there are sure to
be counterbalancing disadvantages
! Above a certain latitude, and notably
in Wyoming, great losses have occurred
from severe winters, and not very far to
the north the s. Lo family y Gas the no.
/ bic red man-A's1Iots the poor Indian y
I Is CdS1lGu OIl -Juc pldALlSJ EOL1C III W
| disturb and modest. All admirers and
advocates of-these hyperborean regions
! have ample opportunities to rise and ex-.
| plain; be ours the pleasant task, re-.
! clining under the spreading cottonwood,
! and in the shadow of the Sierra Mojada,
of singing the eclOgues of the valleys of
| the San CarIes-aRd the Hueffano, for it
is @ not that we love Caesar less, but
Rome more =
We have said that water was the
prime requisite, and the banks of
streams are consequently first sought.
Government land is divided into sec
tons of GAO acres. What more simple
and easy, we hear some one ask, than
to take up four quarter. sections in a line
along the stream, and while we only
own, strictly speaking, a quarter of a
mile in width, to occupy, without let or
hindrance, away back to the divide
| (ridge between that valley'and the next),
being sure that no one will have either
the motive or the will to dispute with us
! the possession of this arid area? Moth
ing, certainly, except that a number of
/ able-boded citizens besides yourself
have not only conceived this same idea,
but acted promptly on it, and that, in
consequence, the supply of water 'front.'
age may be found inadequate to meet
the demand, and its market value con-
sequently and prOportionately increases.
There are always, however, ranchmen
willing to sell, for one reason or anOth-
er, and no one need despair of obtain
ing a good location at a fair rate, with
i the improvements ready made. Then
he can buy his stock, mainly, if he be
wise, on the spot and in the neighbOr-
hood; for, with the great improvement
now taking place in breeds, it is no
longer desirable to buy largely in Tex
as. Then come his 90 cow-bOys,'' - or
herders, not Mexicans, as in Olden times,
but generally stalwart Americans, quick
Ofhand and deliberate of speech. They
are provided with swift and sure-footed
horses, generally, in these days, of the
/ brOnch0 type-a mixture of the Ameri-
can horse and the mustang.
1t may now fairly be asked, where
else in the world, and in what other
known way, can man sit down and see
his possessions increased before his eyes
with so little -eXertion involved on his
partP With the dawn the cattle are all
grazing. Thin and gray enough the
grass looks to the inexperienced eye,
but the ranchero well knows the tufts of
buffalo and gramma growth, gauges the
value of this feed as compared, in the
matter of nutriment, with the richest
greensward of apparently more fertile
regions, and remembers that it grows
/ afresh twice year Then, with the
utmost regularity, and sometime before
: noon, the whole herd-the splendid
?, bulls, the plump steers, the red and
) white and roam and mottled cows-take
, their accustomed trail, and seek the
water with unerring certainty. Then
. back to the grazing again, and feed un-
til
The embers of the sunsets fires
Along the clouds burn down,
and night brings them repose.-A. 4
Hayes, l7s H0gper's for NOreD1ber.