The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-06
Are Goinq to Canada.

A. Jack Crewdson, one of the oldest pi-
oneers Of the Cherokee strip. is not COM
ing to Wichita as he intended last spring.
He was a visitor in Wichita several
days ago and told reporter for the
Eagle that he hadn't money enough vet
TO retire on. The same old story-not
enough. And Jack has lots of money. too
enough to make eight or ten average
men rich.
4 guess said the veteran COW man.
that III go up to Canada-myself and
the Wilson boys
The Wilson boys are Abner, president
of the Southwest Kansas and Oklahoma
Live Stock Association, and Tom p, of
Kiowa, an ex-member of the legislature
from Barber county.
Our old friend. Tony Day. is up there
in Western Canada. said Mr. Crewdson,
and so is old Colonel Creswell, and /
guess we viii go up there too. They are
making pile of money. and they want
us to come. You see it is this way with
US: We are getting too old to be fooling
away what little time we have left to fix
for that rainy day. The farmers are
crowding US out down in Oklahoma.
Some fellow comes in and settles on our
range and we say to him: What are you
going to do?.' and he says: I am going TO
farm. Then we say: Are you going TO
fence2, and he says; No. 1 can't afford
it," That settles it. Between q settler
who wont fence and the herd law the
range cattle man has no show any more
unless he goes in to buck and freeze
them out Life is too short for that, and
! guess viii go to Canada one fellow
down in the strip started to buy off fell
lows settling on his range but he soon
got tired of II. For every fellow he
bought off three more would make settle
ment. expecting TO be bought of too. He
started In TO fence their quarters for
them. but they would actually sell the
WIRE and he got tired OF that II is an
awful hard proposition 10 go against, and
1 guess the best thing for US to do is TO
give it up.
There is a good safe twenty-five per I
cent TO be made in cattle in Canada. That |
is not as good thing as VIC had in the 4
old days down IN Oklahoma. but it is not /
bad-it is better than what we have 4
down there row under the circumstances. I
1t is great cattle country up there. ard +
would be a cattle mans heaven il there +
was market close. Everything goes 70 :
liverpool. England. That little old 81 - /
duty Uncle Sam charges Keeps Canadian /
cattle out Of the United States You
never saw finer grass. I saw grass cattle
going 10 the market early in May that
were as fat and nice as anything YOU
have seen going away from corn in this
country. Ne failures for eighteen years.
You see. the Chinook winds make the
winters nice and mild up there. and the
cattle can stand whatever little cold
weather comes along. Take steer from
here up there and he won't do very wei
the first year. but when he becomes accli-
mated he viii stand anything and grow
TAT Z guess we are going Up there. me
and the Wilson boys. We have been to-
yether more or less now these twenty-five
,r thirty years. and 1 guess wen stay to-
sether right along. The boys are the
fellows you ever saw. and
hats On iasucemcat you know
The removal OF Jack Crewdson and the
Wilson boys from Barber and Woods
COUNTIES Is like the removal ot the gyp-
IN, hills and the salt plains