Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-01-07
A COLD DAYS
Work Rounded-Up and Put in
Shape for Our Readers
Benefit.
Bill Nye's Opinion of Pilgrim
on the Cattle Ranges of
the Great West.
Wells Fargo's Money Express
A Small Row-Terri-
torial Tips.
The Cow Boys' Institute.

No one can 20 through the wide ter
ritory Of Montana to-day without be-
ing strongly impressed with the won
derful growth Of the great cattle grew
ing and grazing industry of that terri
tory. And yet Montana is but the
northern extremity Of the great graz
ing belt which lies at the foot of the
Rocky mountains, extending from
the British possessions on the north to
the Mexican border on the south, ex-
tending eastward, too, as far as the
arabic lands of Oak ota, Nebraska, and
Kansas.
Montana at this season of the year
is the paradise of the sleek, high
headed, 2-year-old Texan steer, with
his tail over the dashboard, as well as
the stock yearling, born on the range,
beneath the glorious autumn sky and
under the auspices of roundup No. n.
l do not say this to advertise the
stock growing interests, because it is
already advertised too much, any way.
SO many millionaires have been made
with free grass" and the early-rising,
automatic branding-iron, that every
man in the United States who has n
COW that can stand the journey seems
to be about to take her west and en-
bark in business as cattle king.
But let me inform the amateur COW
man that In the great grazing regions
1t takes good many acres Of thin
grass to maintain the adult steer in
afiuepce for twelve months, and the
great pastures at the base of the noun
tains are being pretty well tested.
Moreover, I believe that these great
conventions of cattle men, where free
grass and easily acquired fortunes are
naturally advertised, will tend to
overlook the ranges at last and foun-
der the goose that now lays the
golden egg. This. of course, is really
none Of my business, but II ] don't
now and then refer to matters that do
not concern me I would be regarded
rs reticent.
My intention, however, In approach
ing the great COW industry, which, by
the way, Is anything but an industry.
being in fact more like the seductive
manner whereby q promissory note
acquires 2 per cent per month without
even stopping to spit on its hands,
was to refer incidentally to the propo-
sition 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 cow
boys has suggested the idea Of estab-
fishing cowboys college or training
school for self,mads young men who
desire TO become accomplished. The
average Englishman will most always
think of something that nobody else
would naturally think Of Now. our
cattle man would have gone on for
years with his great steer emporium
without thinking of establishing an
institution where poor boy might 20
and learn to rope 4-year-old In such
q way as 10 throw him on his stomach
with sickening thud. .1 a
But now that the. idea has been
turned loose I shall look. forward to
the time when wealthy men who have
been in the habit Of dying and leaving
their money to other institutions will
meet with achange Of heartand begin
TO endow the cowboys' college and the
Maverick hotbed Of broncho sciences.
We live In an age Of rapid advance
ment In al branches Of learning. and
people who do not rise early In the
morning will not retain their position
In the procession. I look forward
with confidence 10 the day when no
COW boy will undertake to ride range
without diploma. Educated labor
lie what we need-cow boys who can
tell you In scientific terms why IL is
always the biggest steer that eats
"pizen weed" In the spring. and why
he should swell up and bust on ris-
ing Chicago market.
/ bope that the day is not far dis
tant when In the holster Of the COW
boy we will hnd the Had instead Of
the killiad, the unabridged dictionary
instead Of Mr.. Remington's great
work on homicide. As Il IL now on
the ranges, you might ride until your
MexicsnI saddle ached before you
would find COW boy who carries
dictionary with him. For that reason