New-York tribune., 1902-08-10
LIFE ON THE FRONTIER
TALES OF TENDERFEET OK NORTH
WEST RANCHES.

The life Of the transmissssippi cattle puncher
and ranchman in the last twenty-five years has
undergone many changes. The winning Of the
West has be one an accomplished fact, and with
the victory a vast increase Of population has ac-
cr-,ed The old days. when herds OF cattle grazed
on the plains from the Rio Grande TO the northern
most boundary lire, with never a fence 20 stay
their progress are Of the past. Great ranches and
farms still exist, bur their metes and bounds are
now legally defined. and no man to-day can craze
bie carrie where he lists as was the case twenty
years ago.
But in British North America the life Of the
cowboy now resembles the life Of the cowboy as II
was in this country in the seventies and eighties
The Northwestern country is still only sparseIy
settled and the life there Is more the life Of the
old frontier than it is on this side Of the line
Four hundred miles north of the Canadian PacIhc
Railroad however, another transcontnenJal line is
in process Of construction. and with its completion
a rand and large settlement Of the country Is eX-
racted 10 occur IF such should be the case many
of the picturesque Of frontier life that still
Inger in that far away territory viii disappear
Recently ore Of the great ranchers from the
Northwest paid New-York a visit and wei! repaid
the attentions he received while here
He had started az a maverick in the business
in the days when big money was made by buying
young steers Texas. and. by grazing slowly north
landing them a distant markets hundreds OF
pounds heavier, with only the cost Of the cattle
herders' keep and ges added 10 the original price
of the cattle 70 cut into the profit He now owns
one of the grestest cattle ranches in British North
America a ranch the increasing value Of which
is to-day in its land whereas a decade ago the
value Law in tho cattle that grazed upon that land
In speaking of some Of the characteristics of COW
nunchers the old cattleman said: We one and
all dearly love a practical joke and will go to
auv amount trouble To perpetrate one.
Some years ago Engiishman overweighted
with a title came up into my country 10 try the
hunting Some one had filed him 'chock a block
with tales OF mountain lions, OF their desperate and
ferocious and Of the great sport there was
in bagging one. When the Englshman arrived at
my ranch. almost his first question was as 10
mountain lions. and what his chances were or
getting one Upon discovering the tales he had
been swallowing. told him his chances We're good,
and that evening all turned in and told yarns
Of the ferocty the lions that finally sent him TO
bed with cha,terins teeth.
Il had a stuffed JaguaI the place. and as the
Englishman couldn't have told the difference be-
tween real lion and Andree's balloon, deter
mined to ring il in him Some hundred yards
from the ranch house there a large tree, and on
a limb Of il placed the jaguar. His feet we
attached the limb by rubber bands, and a rope
around his body a limb above and thence
10 the ground. concealed behind the tree
trunk BY manipulating the rope. could give that
jaguar plenty Of action
he morning at breakfast we were fIls-
t,yrhed bv the screams Of animal
f;re4t Scott There's lion. SaiG my foreman.
The Euglshman ieaped TO mis- feet. Won you
came tOo2 he appealed TO
Never said / I've been long enough here TO
know when shun danger, and lions are one OF
.sThe E.nglishman turned green. but made for ths