The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-28
TExAs CArTi.EMAN's SUCCESS.
A Mnn who Caught the Tide q
~ the Rise.

Denver Post LII A..
Cne OF the most frequently mentioned cat
tlemcn among those who are wont to refer 10
tn" fortunes piled UP In the Colorado. Texas
trade during the last eighteen months OF
wonderful activity In these lines is man
nemcd T. u. Peters who occasionally comes
Into this market with n consignment and pays
no attention to tho remarks his appearance
always creates. or all IN his class he is rc,
garded as the phenomenon, partly because, as
the poker player would gay, he entered the
game with toothpick aud camo out with n
| cord of wood.
III was formerly a farmer in Nebraska.
but found middle life upon HIM about the time
that q mortgage draining heavy interes, con-
spi,es with drouths and all round bad luck
forced him TO abandon his land TO q synd.-
cA,s Of Eastern loan agents.
Wielers CaMo westward, struck Denver about
toe time that the panic OF 1873 did and then
ntter having found small opportunity for his
Talents, drifted south. II took him three
ins
lie was III Ei Paso when, about oighteen
m nv nii age the word Went around among the
short and the demand all over the country
long. lie rcemed the mait for an opportunity
anu tcConniged THAT opportunities come but
o,ec IN life tins'.
Tut Peters foresight was forestalled at
Senee W the same elementary condition that
Ii
men ~ho. would II they cotld catch passing
Chances Tor fortune mailing He hat no
money lilo told gentleman now resiaing in
mus ciiy ana who happened to know nun ut
III Pase at that time. that With ssoOO cash
then IN hand he would mike sio0,0OO IN Two
years This friend had not the inoney TO
loah and knew OF none who would care TO
effect a loan to Peters without better security
than Peters could give, and the matter was
When he next saw Peters il was last fail
aud then this NebraslSa-TeNan had aoeuinuiat~
cd 10000 of the 100000 that MAS 10 have been
accumulated off the $1,000 original capital,
Feters used his wits IN lieu OF cash after
discoNSrlng that II would be impossible to
secure the latter. He borrowed so from o
friendly Isl Paso landlord and used part
oil y In purchasing railroad ticket To Chi
hunhua. Mexico. de was pluuging and piung-
ed heavily MS the pioaeer American who had
gone into that market for feeders for Amer-
can cUrnfiolds.
In chihuahua he found cattle IA cheap as
he had expected, aud hundreds OF Mexicnns
WIN We're willing to sell. Il want a buncn
OF lOre head he explained, "and ten times
that many IL the syndicate ! represent finds
thht my first purchase suits the market.
Peters talk, manner and benring caught
the favor of his southern business acQuaint-
anoes aud he made an agreement with tncn
To bunch their small herds so that ne .coui
same partics practically. Then he said: -
wiH pay YOU $40 to blld the bargain until /
can communicate with my hackers.
Then he borrowed s25 from his Chihuahua
landlord and left the country. returning as
that city he found feeders in greater demand
than when he left 1t a few weeks previously
and he posed as the one man above all 9TH
ers who could deliver Mexican cattle In the
United states 10 all the purchasers he desired
to accommodate.
'of course. gentlemen" he would say to
the crowd OF dealers who were unacqualuted
with Peters. there Is prejudice against our
Mexican steers because they are smail, but
you have got TO have them and the sooner
you buy the larger VIII be your profits
throughout M