The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-26


many ways to grow rich Intelligence, in
tegrity and industry will secure men good
living. and a man is rich who has
enough to satisfy prudent wants. Be
sides, such virtues as we have named
ought 70 be the basis of all great fortunes,
and when such is the case, wealth and wis
dom 20 hand in hand, and the world is bet
ter by virtue of such prosperity. Every one
can not strike ile," discover a gold or silver
mine. or in other ways leap from indegency
to wealth. Nor is il desirable that such
should be the case. Fortunes slowly accu-
mulated are best for their possessors, and for
society at large. Under such circumstances
money is seldom productive of follieS, on the
contrary it combines with skill and muscle,
and in numerous ways becomes blessing, the
benefits of which it would be difficult to cat
alogue. We are informed by General james
Brisbin, U. S. A, in the Agricultural
Review for December, that there
are men now living west of the Missouri
River who will probably die possessed of
$500, O0O.0 The General does not refer
particularly to those who will own bonanza
take possession of an undue share of the
public lands, but rather to those who go to
the great Northwest and engage in raising
cattle. The General refers to the fact that
sit is not long since man who had S1,OOO,-
goo was considered a very rich man, and
Stephen Girard and John Jacob Astor, with
their IS, DOC, 900 to S1O,OO0,OO0, were the Won
Jo~ .Dfo Nok Ioc
its millionaire ten, twenty, thirty, forty and
even fifty millions, is the measure of indiyid-
ual wealth. Stephen Girard and John Jacob
Astor would look meanly enough, in point
of wealth, beside the William II. Wander
bits, Jay Goulds. or the Stamfords of to-
day. Yet, rich as these men are, they are
merely the Astors and Girards of their day.
and will compare slightly enough with the
future rich men of oar country" The Gen.
eral also alludes to the incident that men
differ widely to the amount of money re-
quired for fortune, some putting it at a
million, others at two, three or five millions,
while he thinks that an income of $1,000 a
month ought to be satisfactory to the great
majority of fortune hunters, and that a cattle
that will secure such fortune with greater
certainty than any other with which he is
acquainted. He says.
"0f all the methods of making money easily and
rapidly out West. OF late years. perhaps none has
excelled that of stock raising \ gets few
COWS, waits few years. and 10. he has a herd.
He has bought land. cut no hay and had no
herder. His cattle have grszed on the public do
grasses OF the country; all he has had to DO mas
been to round them up twice a year, put ais brand
upon them aud let them run. His herd yields him
first $780, then 81 OOO then s. GEO. $780, $4,000 PEI
year in beef aad almost before he knows it ne is
rich man. g The average cost of raising a
steer the plains is from sixty cents to dollar
per year, that four year old steer, raised from
CALI represents cost of about ST when ready tor
market. he will then bring $40 to s25. if sold on
the range, and if driven to the railroad $50 to SIS
That would appear to be profit enough to
satisfy moderate ambitions. and is doubtless
about the facts in the case. The General
further says:
Suppose a young man wishes to go Into cattle,
and has little ready money. he invests say 81 300
in $50 yearling heifers. 500 in twelve yearling
steers. and S1O0 in young bulls and 500 in ranch
improvements. He now has $1,000 at stake, and
say 500 left in cash. Then if he will live econo-
mically and attend to his own business, he can
easily live $500 for two years and pay all necessary
expenses. He then has his living provided for. at
the end of which time he can sell ten three-year-
old steers for at least S225 and can from time to
time sell a few younger steers to meet necessary
expenses. Many heifers will calve when
two years old, but we will only
credit them with 80 per cent increase at three
years. Say he commences in 1881. In 1883 the in
crease Will be 100 head in 1884, TO- in 1855, 100;
in 1855 it win be l6S in 1887, PIG. and so He
will in 1887, have been in business six years, and
his herd of $50 will have increased TO S94 less
annual loss of per cent. aud necessary sales to
keep up expenses, which would leave, say $50 cat
tie, old and young. worth average of $40 per
head-s17,O 600. he will now have laid the founda.
ton for fortune. and his profits will just be be-
ginning to be felt. If in the next four years he is
careful in management. and has no extraordinary
losses he will be worth $4,000 to $4,000, and may
sell, first $1,000 then $780, then $1,000 and uld-
mately s25,0 900 worth OF beef per annum.
There is something fascinating in such
statements. For a man to invest 81 900 in
young cattle, and in the course of ten years
make the business pay from $4,000 to S25,-
COO a year, is well calculated to excite the
ambition of certain class of young men
who like adventure and are willing to go
West and grow rich. Riches secured by rails
ing cattle is the right sort of stock specula-
ton. There is certain kind of nobility
about it which does not attach to cornering
wheat or betting on margins. General Bris-
bin. in his Review article, furnishes numer.
Gus tabulated statements showing the great
profits Of cattle raising, well calculated to
attract men of small means TO the Northwest,
who desire to grow rich by methods in har-
mony with the best interests of the country.
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The Washington Republican seems to be
| ION to- Bob lngersol's little scheme. 1t
SAYS:
Some people, said the ex. Governor OF May
land. "ibonght that bob Ingersoll was crazy or a
fool because he made such fuss over the Supr enc
Court decision in the civil rights case. THAT'S
1 where some people were mistaken. Ingers0ll
knows that IL IS good thing FOR him TO be dele
1 gate to National Republican Conventions. When
he gave up his residence in Illinois he tried be
| q delegate from his District Everything was
properly arranged 70 that end. when q black man
got Up in the District Convention OF black men
| and asked: Does Bob Ingersoll love Jesus? IL
was unanimously decided that he didn't. and they
| said: Away with him. They didn't send him to
| the National Convention BY and by the Supreme
| Court makes little decision. snd Ingersol says