Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-27
A kansas CAttIe-R q nc h

Correspondence New York Tribune.
 Most of the cattle here were originally brought from Texas Formerly $l5 was fair price, but now the cattle herders pay from $2O or $25 for yearling to $50 or $35 for a two-year old or three year old steer They are fed on the rich Kansas grasses from one to three years, according to their age when bought When sold to the com mission men they bring from $45 to $65. Most of the herders are freely crossing their cattle with Durham and Hereford stock, and this results in higher prices; from $65 to 1885. Taking the constant increase, the prof. it's will be seen to be very large. Probably there is no business except mining in which as in cattle raising, This has become patent to foreign capitalists. The Prairie Cattle company, of Colorado, said to have the lar
 gest herd under one ownership in the world, is controlled by syndicate of Scotchmen, and the dividends last year were 30 per cent.
 Many Englishmen here well as in Cobra do have invested their capital, and the Brit ish society of Kansas counts large member ship. When our young herder-turned cook-had placed the repast on the table, he began to throw cold water on the romantic views of life on the plains with which a l morning gallop on the prairies inspires an eastern man. He spoke of the incessant and tedious watching of the cattle night and day throughout the year the herders when on the range transporting their provisions in a wagon, cooking their own food, and at night relieving each other in two hour watches t keep the cattle from stampeding. But his kindling eye when he spoke of the round 1 ups" showed that the settlements of his life l held their fascination. In the spring the l cattle are driven together at some convenient 1 point. One by the herders lasso and ] throw them or draw them up to a post and | the red hot iron stamps on each the brand of i the owner. It is something worth seeing tc l witness a skilful herder throw the lasso You ask him to catch 8 steer by the hind leg l He starts his pony on gallop, cuts steer 1 out from the herd, the pony following the l turns of the animal like greyhound, ther 1 waving his lasso around his head throws it SC I that the loop falls just before the st~er's hind
 leg, which enters it just as the loop is pulled | up. The pony keeps on, for sudden stoE would snap the pommel of the saddle tc
 which the lariat is attached, but despite the I struggles of the steer it is forced to bite ths 1 dust. The herder will catch any leg or droI l the rope over the horns, and one especially 1 skillful cowboy can throw the loop over the l horns and with another turn bring 1t up over 1 the nose, making complete halter, while I both pony and steer are running at the toE ofsheir speed.
 The second general roundup takes place l in the fall, when the cattle selected for mar 1 ket are cut out and driven to the railway sta
 tion. Then all through the year the herds
 are continually being rounded up, when they !
 others rebranded. The sales of cattle are al
 together in the hands of commission mer
 who control the stock yards of Kansas Git,
 and Chicago. If cattle-owner here should ] send his cattle to Kansas City and endeavo ! to sell them himself he would meet witi
 hong delays, resulting in depreciation of hi
 stock and possible failure. The commission | men, keeping on intimate relations witt
 eastern buyers. form rings which practicall 1 exclude outsiders from selling cattle unles the stock passes through their hands. An l this commission means an addition to tn ! cost of beef to the consumer. The hiR price of beef at present is proving an add l 5tional inducement to enter the cattle raisin [ Business, although those who are coming l often forget that the price will fall, and ths
 they must suffer by that fall soon after the
 have made their start. Cattle-raising is tn
 business of all others in Kansas demandin ! capital. AS an old stock-raiser said to me
 'With $5, OoO-sheep, with $15, ,OOo-cattl You need less money for sheep and get quicl CT returns. A man should have round sul