The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-07-31
49, e on 90 cow lNousreY.
A Cowboy College Needed TO Educate
Young 3Ien to This Profession.

A Cowboy College Needed TO Educate
Young BIen to This Profession.
No one can go through U wide territory
Of Montana to-day without being strongly
impressed with the wonderful growth Of the
great cattle growing and grazing industry
of that terri cry. And yet Montana Is but
the northern extremity Of the great
grazing belt which lies at the foot Of the
Rocky mountains, extending from the British
possessions on the north to the Mexican DOT
der on the south, extending eastward, TOO, as
far as the arabic lands Of Dakota, Nebraska
and Kansas.
Montana. at this season Of the year, is the
paradise Of the sleek, high-headed, 2year-old
Texan steer, with his tail over the dash
board. as well as the stock yearEng, born on
the range, beneath the glorious mountain
sky and under the auspices Of roundup NO.
81.
do not say this TO advertise the stock
growing business because it Is already ad-
vertised too much, anyway so many
miIlionaires have been made with "free
grass" and the early-rising, automatic brand
ing iron that every man in the United states
who has q COW that can stand the Journey
seems 70 be about to take her west and en-
bark in business as cattle king.
But let me warn the amateur COW man that
in the great grazing regions 1t takes good
many acres of thin grass to maintain the
adult steer in affiuence for twelve months,
and the great pastures at the base OF the
mountains are being pretty well tested
Moreover, believe that these great conyen-
tions of cattemen, where free grass ana
easily acquired fortunes are naturally adVer-
tised, will tend to overstock the ranges at
last and founder the goose that now lays the
golden egg This, of course, is really none
of my business, but if didn't now and then
refer to matters that do not concern me L
would be regarded reticent.
Ny intention, however, in approaching the
great COW industry, which, by the way, Is
ANYTHING but an industry, being in fact more
like the seductive manner whereby prom
issory note acquires 2 per cent. per month
without even stopping to spit on its hands,
was to refer incidentally to the proposltlon
of an English friend of mine. This friend
seeing at once the great magnitude OF the
COW industry and the necessity for more and
more cowboys, has suggested the idea OF es-
tabishing a cowboys college, or training
school, for self-made young men who desire
to become accomplished. The average Eng
lshman viii most always think OF something
that nobody else would naturally think OF
Now, our cattleman would have gone on fol
years with his great steer emporium without
thinking of establishing an institution where
a poor boy might go and learn to rope 4
year-old in such way as to throw MN OF
his stomach with a sickening thud-
The young Maverick savant could take
kindergarten course in the study OF Gov
brands. Here wide field opens up to thu
scholar The adult steer in the great realm
of beef is now walking Chinese wash bill
a Hindoo poem in the original junk shol
alphabet, a four-legged Greek inscription
punctuated with jim jams, a stenographer'
notes of a riot, a bird's-eye view of preIna
in a har GV store.