El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-10
A CATTLEMAN
OF TEXAS
Sam Lazarus, Who Has Made
His Millions
NEVER LOST CONFIDENCE
When Others We're DISCOURAGED And
Sold Their Stock He Added To
His Herds And Ranches.

His Herds And Ranches.
It has been stated that Sam Lazarus
of ST. Louis aud Texas has made q
million dollars in the past two or three
years through the rise in the price of
Texas cattle, says the St. Louis Repub-
lie. Mr.. Lazarus denies that his profits
for that period are exactly represented
by such figures, but admits that he
made few dollars in the transac-
tion."
Friends of Mr.. Lazarus, and others
who watch the cattle business, declare,
however. that Mr.. Lazarus's profits-as
q result of his buying all the cattle he
could when the market had gone to
smash and the prices were on the
verge of nothing, and holding the
stock to firm basis-could not have
been less than million dollars. One
close business associate says it was
more than million dollars.
Mr.. Lazarus g legal residence Is Sher-
man, Tex, but he maintains q hand
some home at No. ABB Lindell boule-
ward, in st. Louis, where his wife and
only daughter, whO'is yet schoolgirl,
reside for the greater part of the year.
MIR. Lazarus is also in ST. Louis for
many weeks in the year as he has ex-
nection with his cattle business aud
with two cement companies, which
have headquarters there and draw
their supplies of raw material from
Texas clay fields.
During the past week Mr.. Lazarus
has been in St. Louis, and has observ-
ed regular Office hours at bis Office in
the Century building. 1t was there
that a representative of the Sunday
Republic found him.
ANYBODY can make money in cattle
mi W. RI he a &.
clsres Mr.. Lazarus.
SIT IL not business" he AYERS.
"Some kind friends have already given
me the reputation OF being such q
shrewd man that every body is on the
lookout for me. Therefore, when Sam
Lazarus goes into the market to buy,
every body is watching for him.
"Cattle raising is 80 per cent luck
and the rest brains. In Texas cattle
they? They'vegot the climate: they've
got the grass; all man has to do to
make q success of the cattle business
In Texas is to select sound stock, not
get In too deep in buying, and then let
the cattle grow and multiply. OF
course, he must keep bis stock in good
for fine feathers make fine
birds, in spite of the old saying, and
he must be diligent in Watching the
But cattle will have to get down
low in the market before they
fail to bring profit when they are
raised in Texas.
"a man can afford to pay more than
the cattle are worth in Texas If he is
laying in q supply for . ranch. All he
has to do is to put the cattle out to
Craze for q winter. Next spring there
are more cattle for him to look after
and count up as his. 1t doesn't take
the new calves long to become full
grown COWS and steers, and then his
money has multiplied, while all he has
done has been to watch that none of
them got away from his ranch, and
that they were allowed freedom
to get all the grass they needed
TO get fat. 1t is the simplest thing in
the world"
When Mr. Lazarus went to Sherman
be was a poor lad of IA years. That
was nearly thirty years ago. He went
to Texas from New Orleans. AtSher-
man he spent ten years in mercantile
life. Then he began to branch out in
the cattle business. The growth of
his business was slow, but it was
, bout ss certain as anything partaking
20 much of speculation as cattle rails