The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-01

humble days as Q butchers boy ~ Fulton'
His life presents an unusual example q
what industry combined with economy
and good sense may do for q man. he
was successful as q butcher, and accumu'
lated considerable means in the business
and with the capital thus acquired he EN-
barked in the lumber, planning mill and
ice business over at Bridgeport, and was
very successful there, About twelve years
ago he removed to Council Bluffs, having
previously invested considerable means
in Iowa lands, at government prices
He drifted into the stock business
out there, principally cattle, and
for years past, along with his sons, has
kept up an immense range in Wyoming
Territory, near the Rocky Mountains.
This range is IS miles by % miles, and he
has on it 1890 head Of cattle, old and
Young. He ships OF times as many
as 5000 head Of four year Odds to
Chicago in one season, and more than
once has realized over $4,000 in Q year
in the way OF profits. vi course he has q
good opinion Of the West. He says that
hs likes the air OF the country and the
energy of the people, They do business
on a larger scale than In this country, and
are progressive in everything. Even the
European immigrants slough of their old
world conservatism and TALL into the
large ways and progressive ideas oil the
country,
Mr.. Keeline was one OF the earliest Re-
publiclns Of this vicinity, and was never
ashamed in the days Of 1866 to be called q
"BlaCk Republican" which was the cur
rent phrase among Il Democratic TEL
low citizens. He sold good beef, good ice
and good lumber at fair and honest prices,
but he never would sell his polite al prin'
ciples along with them, he says that II
does him good to live in a State where
they roll up $1,000 Republican majority.
He mas it as bad as ever.
Not long ago Mr.. Keeline Visited Ger
many, and he says that the effect oil his
visit was to thoroughly dispel his last
European prejudice, and bring him home
a complete aud thorough going American.
lie did not discover any essential progress
in Germany since the days oil his boyhood,
aud he says that they are away behind the
Americans in machinery and in all sorts Of
mechanical appliances. One thing that
stung his pride and reused his indigna'
ton was to see women doing mems work.
He has no use for that sort OF thing, He
freed bis mind on one occasion very ener
gstically 10 q group Of listening Germans
on the subject. .
Mr., Keeline has seven children, all
doing we'll and enjoying good prospects in
life. 0ne OF his daughters IL married to
Mr., Spencer Smith, one OF the pr6prie'
tors Of the Council Bluffs NOnparel, the
leading daily Republican newspaper Of
Western Iowa, and four OF his boys are
engaged in the cattle buslnessin Wyoming.
They employ ten herders and q cook, and
keep l40 ponies for the use Of the herders.
His range Ia about $50 milea from the
Union Pacific railroad, and twice q year
two OF his OK teams visit Cheyenne Tor
supplies, six yoke Of oxen to q team. lie
ships mostly four year old steers to mar
ket. The shipping season is 10 mid.sum'
mer, after the grass cures and the cattle be-
come hardened enough on II 10 stand
driving aud transportation by rail, About
one.halt OF his stock oil cattle are brought
from Texas when two years old, and the
balance are his own improved breeds.
The grass OF the range Is more nutritious
than blue grass, and Is known as bunch
grass, and the cattle feed OF II the year
round. Even last winter their supply was
not cut off, on account Of the warm south
winds along the base Of the mountains.
Mr.. Keeline says that western lands are
advancing in value very rapidly on &C.
count OF the vast current Of immigration,
and the days Of cheap open praries with
their vast expanses Of untitled soil are
coming 10 an end, Iowa Is filling up with
q desirable population, aud her productive
soil is destined to become an empire Of
itself. The railroad development OF the
country Ia wonderful and constantly on
the increase. Farming by machinery lie
the order OF the day, and the people raise
immense crops with more ease and at
much less expense than In the East. For
him the words Of thesong have q Congenial
meaning that read
IT'S not In the East but 10 the far away West,
i Thal I hasa fanud tina hnHh I liza tina h1BE.i