The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-03-05

worth by going to the butcher shop.
there anything about US in the line
live stock more remunerative than cattl
Still they are the only class of live stoc
which has 80 far remained without th
benefit of protective laws.
The first class of people that came I
Montana twenty years ago were energeti
and ofgood nerve, willing to do righ
toward themselves and their neighbon
; But the class that came after the trl
pioneers had fought their way throug
the Indians, and strung up few roa
agents to establish peace and safety il
the country. This second emigration
with some pretentions to civilization
having an idea that those here befor
them could but be very ignorant AM
backward. Thought all they had to d.
was to jump another man'sranch, alread!
improved and locate on it.
Their pretentions to the public domai,
have been bold beyond the limit of rea
son, and the cattle-growing interest hal
suffered the most from this. The infu
enee of such an element, We all know
has established bad proceeding among
cattle-growers; their main object being tc
get all the advantage they can from com.
mon, not being willing to do anything tc
help the cattle interest, denying all re.
spect due to their improvement-poo,
help at the roundup, making business
of breeding their cows at the expense Of
some one else, and speciality Of stealing
as many stray calves from their neigh
bon as they can. This dishonest prac-
tice together with the hard winter and
calamities before mentioned, as we'll AZ
the knowledge of the fact that every
bodies business is no bodies business and
an industry without laws or protective
legislation could but be source of con-
slant troble; has caused many well in
tentioned cattle-growers to sell their
cattle At comparatively low figures, which
not only proved personal loss but q
general loss especially in this valley.
Had we yet our cattle the scarcity of
money would have no effect upon us as
We would have in them q reliable source
from which to get our cash ready to ex-
tend the same to all classes of industries.
We must make an effort to get our cattle
back and protect them. Get ri of 20
many cayuses, nuisance over the hills,
and guard against the boldness of shep-
hards, which is the greatest calamity
now among stock-growen. As the occa-
sion is favorable let us review what
Marquis de Mores had to say iu an article
which appeared in the CHRONICLE Of
February 18th, for which all cattle men
thank the editor for having reproduced.
This gentleman says cattle is the safer
business, but it requires more money and
longer time before realizing on the in
vestment. The first part of this We will
leave as it is. We know cattle would be
the safer business if protected from sheep
and their own range respected from en-
eroachment. But we agree that it takes
more money to buy them ~ they are
more valuable property and bring 4
higher profit. As for its requiring q
longer time before realizing on the in
yestment
1t is matter of opinion. When a man
gets from $lS to $50 for skim-milk calves
together with the produce from its
mother, he does not wait long before
realizing. 1t takes quite number of
lambs to bring as much as one of those
calves and the wool of quite number of
ewes to bring as much as one Of those
COWS. The average increase of steer in
one year on the range is not less than
$40. It would take the wool of at least
ten weathers to equal him, while the
deyastations on the range of ten weathen
realizing $40, would be much greater
than the consumption of ten steers realiz-
ing 500. The proportion between cattle
and sheep is the same throughout. The
Marquis then continues, "Cattle men
generally don't sympathize with the
afflicted sheep. They would not go into
mourning if all the sheep ranges in the
Territory were to be devastated by the
new disease.
Cattle men do not demand the death
of the sheep, any loss Of property is gen.
eral. We lost part of our grain last
crop, but it did not seem to help any one.
All the cattle men demand from shep-
herds is that they be decent and keep
their sheep away from cattle and COM
bine with us to obtain a division of
ranges to avoid conflict and not wasting
80 much range, SO that every class of
livestock could be protected and made
prosperous. The remainder of the Mar
quis' article completes the solving of the
problem, by saying, cattle will not range
after sheep, stampeding from ground on
which the meek wool-grower grazes as if
from the fierce blast of the blizzard ram
pant. And the conflicting interest must
eventually be regulated by legislation.
Several old cattle men are abandoning
that line and engaging in sheep-raising
and wool-growing, some of them driven
to make the change by the encroachment
of sheep. 1t was necessary for them to
move or to 60 into the sheep business
We must acknowledge this to be the
language of . gentleman penetrated with
true sentiments Of justice. We have as
yet not been able to obtain such &C.
knowledgments from our shephards,
while the Husbandman tries to make
us believe that sheep are an improve
ment to our range, and places them
before cattle. Here gentleman largely
engaged in wool-growing plainly asserts
the encroachment and probable ruina-
ton of the cattle mans business by the
sheep, and fairly advises the division of
ranges, willing to take his chance on a
sheep location. Yet if it is true that
sheep are benefit to the range let them
enjoy their own benefit, but give the
cattle fair play. Yes give us the division
Of ranges, 80 We can build homes for our !
cattle and prepare improvements to save
them, and let such Improvements be re-