Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-03-03
Trust Will Lower Prices When
People Can No Longer
Afford to Buy"
RANCH WOMAN TALKS
Lady Grace Tells of Her Expel
fences While Raising Cattle
and Sheep in the State Of
Wyoming.

see the price OF beef go so high that the
people in this country could not afford
10 buy It. Then would sell all our
cattle abroad for a season and the beet
trust would be forced to make q rea-
sonahle price. That Is one way Of solv-
ing the question"
This is what Lady Grace F.. Mackenzie
| has to say about the Increased cost Of
| living from the view point Of woman
who owns. u, ,o0p acres, five ranch houses
1000 cattle and 5000 sheep, all In the
sovereign State Of Wyoming.
Yes said this titled lady with a
smile. II speak the language of the West
without an accent. have lived in wyom-
| ing seven years and that is long enough
| to learn any language. My French I
keep for Parisians, my English accent
| for my visits home and my american
| for Wyoming. l speak no my cowpunch-
| ers can understand me and IL ever have
TO reprove them very sternly l speak in
French which they do not understand
and imagine I am complimenting them.
MIGHT PASS FOR WESTERNER.
| Not exactly the sort Of talk one NIGH
! expect from a :itled Scotch woman. bu,
| neither is Lady Grace the tort Of a titled
| Scotch woman etienest found at the Wal
| dorf. She might pass anywhere for a
| western woman. born and bred on the
range. or more :han average height and
beautiful OF face and figure, the life OF a
| ranchwoman seems d strange one for this
| woman TO lead
1T began by my inheriting a ranch in
Wyoming" said she. II thought the life
offered the chance for excitement for ad
venture, and I came to this country and
! settled down to learn the business Of
stock raising Then bought other
ranches until low own Ave. all in look
county. with headquarters 20 miles from
the railroad.
Now l want 20 sell out. There is
money In the cattle business once more.
We ell made money last season but
he romance Of life In the Vest has
gone and will Eever return. The West
Isn't Wild any more. When the range
went the romance went with 1t, and
now feed all my own stock. Life on
ranch without a roundup Is no moro
exciting than any ether Nind of farm
ing.
ROOSEVELT DID rs AN INJURY"
THE cattle business is just beginning
to be profitable again. Like all this
western cattle and sheep owners, feel
that Mr.. Roosevelt. while President, did
, us great injury. When the beef
scandal came on we suffered. and partly
, through the acts OF the President. We
had always felt that he was a western
man: that he understood conditions out
West, but the raids Of the government
inspectors worked a great hardship on
us. The beef scandal killed the foreign
market, and we were forced 10 sell out
stock for just what the trust wished
to offer us. and between the beef trust
and railroads we have had to fight for
\ our very lives. The smaller owners went
i;nder
"As to the present high prices. they
make for our welfare because We gel
: a high price for our cattle on the hoof
r ! would Ike TO see the price of beei
go high that the people II this coun-
g try could not afford to buy it, and that
# would force to sell abroad. Then
;, the trust would make reasonable prices
It again. one way to kill a trust is "a
l. refuse make a market for the pro.
II duct. and if that Is done In this country
prices Will come down within reason.
d STRANGE BUSINESS FOR WOMAN.
! "A strange business for woman
Perhaps. but | always liked it. have
-, made a study OF stock raising l manage
- the 1--WE ranches myself. and I believe
can ride n range bred horse as we'll al
~ any woman in that part OF the country
~ There is plenty OF room out there for q
Wild horse 10 run.
Fl" Coming over on the Savoie there wer,
| only few passengers and l entertained
them with stories Of life in the West ant
on the cattle ranges, When the shiI
paper was published, there on the from
-, page, was a picture Of Old Steamboat
and an account Of the last Frontier Da!
celebra lion at Cheyenne Just imagin
IN Old Steaboat. fifteen hundred miles a
he sea-
ve Old Steamboat, It may be explained, !
er the worst horse in Wyoming, big blacl
a outlaw who makes and unmakes tn
nd rough riding champions of the West. oil
lie Steamboat Is a State institution In Wye
nd ming, wnere he is almost popular a
n | Senator Warren. Lady Grace has see
As him perform on several occasions, and
II may be stated for her that she knows tn
S | difference between "sunilsner,' .
twster'' and "straghtaway bucker,
and speaks the language of the COW
punchers with ease and facility.
&c Lady Grace left New York to-day n
she wishes to be "at home when tn
sheep shearing begins.