Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-10-04
BACHELORS ORGANIZE A CLUB
TO GET HELPMATEs.
RANCHMEN OF WEALTH
Organization Consists of Thousand
Members and Every One Of Them
Means Business-WiII Seek to Pro-
mote immigration From the
East.


marriage are simply falling over one
another to get in line for a wife, says
the New York Herald correspondent
at Cody, Wyo. So eager have the big
ranchmen of the basin become for
womanly helpmates that they have or
ganized club, 1000 strong, whose u
innate and only object is the acquisi-
ton of wives for its members.
Every member of the 1000 club is
worth at least $4,000, and some Of
them are rated at a million or more
The Big. Horn country, while compar-
atively new to people in general, has
been inhabited by class of hardy cat
tie ranchers and gold miners for al
most a quarter of century, and dur
ing those years nature has been so
good to those people that they have
been made rich in the goods of che
world, although cut off until recently
from enjoying the privileges of civil
lization.
During this quarter of a century
very few women, comparatively, have
found their way into the Big Horn ba-
sin, and therefore the ranchmen Of
this section have remained unmarried
as rule. Several years ago a branch
railroad was built down to Cody, Oh
the northwestern edge of the basin,
and over this line number of people
have come in bringing their families
and wives, and some of the ranchmen
and miners have married since then,
but by far the larger number are yet
single, although able, wiling and anx-
ious to support wives.
Some months ago the road began
building line down to the heart Of
the Big Horn basin, en- route to the
Wind river Indian reservation, which
will be thrown open to settlement this
spring, and some of these ranchmen
went out into the world fcr the first
time since coming into the basin,
years and years ago.
The railroad started the men to
talking. They found they needed
women to keep house for them-Chi.
nese wouldn't do any more. Some
body got hold Of an old matrimonial
bureau newspaper and succeeded in
finding pretty good wife.
Why can't we do as well?" was
question many of the ranchmen asked
themselves, and then asked one an
other:
Then somebody else proposed they
join a matrimonial society and see II
they could not do as well as the other
fellow did. And somebody else pro-
posed that they organize a club Of al
the unmarried men in the basin and
seek, in body, for wives for them
all.
The club was formed 1t has at
present 1,00J members enrolled, and
each and every one of them wants a
wife. Just anybody or any kind of a
woman won't de-" they say. 1--WE
want the real article-one who is hon.
est and upright and who can make a
good wife for a ranchman. And in
turn we will give them our love and
respect and everything that money
can buy out in this country Once in
a while they can expect trips down tc
Chicago or Omaha or Denver-and we
can give them other Injuries now and
then"
William Barrow OF Meeteetse, Wyo.
is secretary of the club, which is
named the Gray Bull club because of
the principal river in the basin coun-
try Barrow placed advertisements in
different matrimonial journals and in
big eastern newspapers. He stands
ready to take charge OF any cores
pondence which comes to him on the
subject Of wives or husbands.
And Barrow did not have to wait
very long after placing his advertise
ment for his answers. They poured
In from all directions and from every
state. AS usual, New England fur
nished the largest quota of answers
and many OF the ranchmen prefer
these New England girls. too. Thev
have regulations out here in the west
of being the best housekeepers end
all-round women in the country. Lots
of answers came from PENNSYLVANIA
and Ohio, too And Iowa furnished
and continues TO furnish quite few
women who are willing to marry Big
Horn basin ranchmen.
The answers, when received BY
Barrow. are parceled out among the
members of the club. II wonan has
expressed q choice as to the kind OF
a man she prefers the letter Is handed
to one who fits the description.
Otherwise. it takes its turn and is
sent to the ranchman or miner whose
turn ii is to get the next letter.
But so many letters have been re-
ceived that every one Of the thousand
men who are members have already
had half a dozen letters and still
others are coming in by every mail.
Hundreds OF the ranchmen have
been placed in communication with