New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-18

RAPIDLY GRoWfNG INDUsTRY-THE UNFoRT-
UNATE NEW -YoRKER--ALFALFA AS FODDER.
Correspondence Of The Chicago Record.
new era has begun out here in the Western .,
counties Of the state There Is no more OF thc
old time trust in the rather captOus taNor Oh
the rainfall The people are starting into the
cattle business on scale that may mean a re-
yivai of the Vests once promising CONDITIONS
The West is in the cattle business IN earnest.
Thousands and terS of thousands oI MeA'a'i
and Texan longhorns have been driven up ~
the sites of the farms deserted 10y settlers, ana
the loan companies that were cOnlpeIIeu u l.'hS
in the lands by foreclosure are finding mat they
have profitable property on tnelr hahus. lntS
have leased the farms to the catiiehei, "lo y,
turn have hired the cowboys 10 herd the sto'S
at - a head for the season. Since the llTSt Oh
the year fully 2uOW,G head of feeders have come
into Western Kansas and half as many more
are there for breeding purposes Tnese s'ocA
cattle have cost about $50 q head.
The men who brought these cattle up rom tlie
ranches of the Southwest have made Dig MONEY
at it, one young dealer started out with no
knowledge Of the business. but because OF ms
striking the right lead he has cleared Sto, oO py
the six months work The feeders that were
brought up this spring will be shipped 10 the
Kansas City market in the fall and the settlers
and spectators will make money on them
cattle are getting short the ranges, sad
a cattle dealer the other day, and 'hose "n'
get them now will be in luck. There IS no ret-
son why the prices should fall for at least hve
years. for it will take at least that long to Eet
the supply up 10 the necus Vi liic ~
cattIeIncn are pre-empting western Kansas Il,
a rate that will soon make it one OF the busiest
parts of the West and the cattle will make II
productive Of wealth.
NEW METHODS ARE FOLLOWED.
The methods by which this has been brought
about and by which the holders OF western
Kansas lands have been relieved are worth uh-
Outstanding. The cattle are sold from the cars
ard brina from $50 To $50 head, with the
whtte-faced bulls at vice as mucn. Dealers az
Kansas CITY and Omaha will contract To take
al the calves at ST. 80 or the ycarnEs AT -" Il
had Then. with thu long summers and the
fact that there Is no need 10 feed FOR more thah
two months i'm the winter, they can raiSe about
o. per cert Of the calves and double their herds
twice in three years.
Wcetcrn Kansas. however. is not so much
cattle-growinC country as it is a cattle moving
country. II is the idea! place To fit the stock Tor
the market. and the stock that come M from
III. hot Southwest for this purpose are put on
the yards in better shape than are those tnat
the rauchprS trv to 1T for beef themselves. 1t Is
solving the question for the landho!dcrs, and a*
the cattle go out in small punches there is no
chance for any very large losses except where II
can well he afforded
one man who came ont from Ncw-Iolk TO ma
ont about this section Of land that he had ac-
nujrcd hv th- process Of foreclosure discovered
that il vas in the midst q a ten-section range,
,.l,rraI1r,,l hy a barbed wire and occupied by a
bunch of cattle. He went to the ranch house
and asked for the proprietor.
.SaS" he began. when that worthy appeared.
30 YEA know that you have fenced in my land
in your pasture" M
";;uc.s have got somebody's; is it yours?"