Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-11

The Practical Training of Stock
men Made the object of IL school
Is, rHn<u

men Made The VSJeSs AsS
i'm Texas.
Eyes, sir, that's perfectly correct. As
the advertisement Gays, 500 pays for
three months instruction in rearing, tend
ing and caring for horses, cattle and
sheep, with board and the use of a good
saddle horse ON q stock ranch in West
Texas, aud a young man after learning
the business can get immediate employ
ment in it at $50 a month or more"
The speaker was the local agent of the
Texas Farm Association, who went on to
explain:
This association has nothing to do with
the matter, except TO receive applicants for
this practical tuition. The man who makes
the offer is Col. Byron Van Raub, owner
Of the Don Carlos ranch, which is % miles
north of San Antonio. But we know the
offer to be made in good faith, and that the
Colonel is a perfectly square, trustworthy
man. He is an old Prussian officer, who
has ideas about training young men, and
does this thing more because it does good
and amuses him than for any profit from
it. He has 5000 acres OF land, stocked
with some 400 ponies, a lot of horses-I
don't how maryland 1000 head Of cattle
and sheep. His plan is to teach young
men to be stockmen by making their daily
life, for a time, a steady accumulation of
knowledge Of results indelibly fixed by
experience. Each branch of the business
will be thoroughly taught by experienced
men, including breeding, feeding, herding,
branding, lassOing, marketing, riding and
a thousand things about camp life that
can only be learned by experience. The
pupils will not only be taught by the work
on his own ranch, but will be taken
to visit the other great ranches in
the vicinity, some of which have On them
l 900 to 1900 horses, $1,000 to 0,00O
head OF cattle, and 5000 to &C $1,000 sheep
and goats. There are now on Col. Van
Raub's ranch forty-four young men be-
tween the ages Of Is and 35 years, going
through this course of instruction. A
number Of them are Englishmen, and
there are also some from Nova Scotia,
and several from Boston and other parts
of New England. None have yet gone
from New York, but it is probable that
the offer will not fail to attract q good
many here. This is the best season for
them to go out to learn tho Winter
work. Practically, one month in De-
cember and January covers all the bad
pdlb VI tHt ItAil hlubSI. LUZ GitNSu
months in the year one can camp out
there in the open air without danger or
discomfort. The fare from New York to
San Antonio is $50 80 by boat and rail,
or ST. 25 by all rail, frst-class, limited.
mo. The element of draw poker and
seven-up and the use of the revolver are
not included in Col. Van Raub's course
of instruction, nor even permitted on his
ranch. 1t is a popular error to suppose
that the Texan goes about constantly with
a howitzer on his hip and in a normal con
dition Of inebriety. The country is set
Ting up rapidly with good, law-abiding
citizens, who respect the rights of person
and property just the same as people do
elsewhere. Our association has sent out
there within a year some 900 settlers,
the best of emigrants, many of hem from
other States, and thousands go without
our direction or knowledge.