The sun., 1905-09-10
GOATCURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS
HEALTH AND A LIVELIHOOD
FOUND IN NEW MEXICO.

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saying among those afflicted with the dis
ease. that the best cure for consumption
| Ia a good stomach and a fat pooketbook.
Thus equipped, and with the proper mode
Of living adopted before the disease Is too
firmly seated, a consumptive may not only
live TO old age. but incidentally may become
stronger and healthier than ever he was.
In these days when there Is 80 great q
liking for outdoor life and sports, 1t Is not
q real hardship for a man with an assured
income to be told by his physician that he
must practically live In the open air, and
make getting well again his chief occupa-
ton. When q doctor gives the same ad-
vice to a man who works in order that he
may exist the situation Is more compli-
Gated.
We're it a matter Of a month or 80 the
average wage Garner could manage. but
even year is too short time to effect q
complete cure. and how to manage this
and pay his expenses without his salary
is sometimes too much OF a proposition
for the patient and he hangs doggedly
on. trying to effect cure by running his
digestion with creosote and other unpleas-
ant medicines. A complete breakdown al
most invariably results and he is eventually
numbered among the many victims of the
great white plague.
This is the story Of how one man 30 stu
ated solved the problem and Is now well
and strong and able to support himself.
He was one OF the multitude Of New Y ork
office employees and earned enough to
live on and provide as many comforts and
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bears were usually long lived and having
been healthy and normally strong always,
he did not foresee that he might suddenly
, have to give up his we'll ordered existence,
and enter upon a simpler and totally diff
ferent life.
When he reached 81 his health became
very poor and the Adirondacks were recon-
mended as a good place to grow we'll in.
He spent q year near Saranac Lake, living
in the open air all that time and before
leaving he was examined by a physician
who pronounced him to be in splendid
shape. He could walk for miles over the
hills and apparently was fit for any sort
Of life.
The doctor thought he would be able to
resume Office work but said that his best
advice was previously to spend about three
years in the West. At the expiration Of
that time his lungs would be so Thoroughly
healed that the cure would be permanent
and he could then live wherever he cared
to. Outdoor work in any part Of the country
would do. but the West was recommended
because there were more chances for that
sort of occupation, and also on account Of
the climate.
When man has always lived in New
York 1t is hard to break him Of the habit
and besides that the thought OF starting
all over again had it's drawbacks. The
ties Of home and kindred were so strong
too, that he decided to 60 back to his desk
again and If he found he was still untitled
for indoor work he would take Horace
Grecley's advice to the young men of this
country.
Six months in an office thoroughly con-
vinced him how foolish he had been to
return so soon to his desk and a few weeks
more found him sitting in the bandstand
in the little park in FL Paso. waiting like
Mr.. Micawber for something to turn up.
Stock raising Of all the outdoor occupa-
tions is the safest and surest investment
for this region. Farming is too hard
life and is not very profitable on account
of the arid climate and the excessive freight
rates.
The venture that appealed most to him
was breeding Angora goats because they
were easier to handle than other stock
and the returns on the investment were
surer. Texas and New Mexico lead in the
number of goats In this country, as they
| both contain large tracts Of land that are
fitted for little besides goat raising.
The tenderfoot travelled by rail to Ala
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and started up through the Sacramento
Mountains. These mountains are mostly
Government land and are open for settle
ment as homestead grants. The long
dry season makes 1t difficult to farm there
successfully and the land Is valuable chiefly
as stock range.
| The.cattle and goat men are all OF the poor
er class and there are no very large herds.
Most Of the people here settled because land
was to be had for practically nothing and
man could become moderately comforta-
tle in few years, il he was willing to hus-
tie while he waited. Tho thick brush that
covers the hills provides an ideal goat range
and the goat men are increasing in numbers
and will eventually predominate.
1t took six months Of looking around
to find location and the tenderfoot settled
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small villages. A younger brother, filed
with rosy visions Of the Wild West, joined
him and they proceeded to turn their 100
acres OF virgin soil into an improved claim.
They built a small cabin, cut posts, put
up wire fence, broke some ground. erected
outbuildings and did the hundred and one
things necessary to make their place ready
to live on and help support them. 1t was
rough, hard work that was strange to two
city products but they managed to make
progress somehow, and soon were fairly
we'll settled and ready for the goats, a small
herd of which they bought.
The Angora goat is native Of Turkey
and its hair is manufactured into mohair
cloth and fine rlushes. Eighty per cent.
of the hair used in this country IL imported
80 it can readily be seen that there is no inn
mediate danger Of the domestic supply
becoming too great. The people OF New
York and other towns a Ne alleged to eat a lot
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