Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-02-12

are allowed to range SO that when the
spring comes there is no surety of
being able to secure fat beeves for
butchering, so in order to protect
themselves and their patrons for the
spring trade in prime meat the Will
ton Meat Market operates this feed
barn for the purpose of fattening cat
tie in the winter.
Much might be said of Mr.. Schmid's
success as stockman. He has spent
more than fifteen thosuand dollars in
improving his property, and today he
has one of the finest stock farms in
the country. He has six hundred and
forty acres of land three miles from
Wilton, and here he has made every
improvement for the care and protec.
ton of his livestock. Large barns,
wind mills, gasoline engines-every.
thing. In short. to help along the
work. Hungry cattle are bought and
brought here and given three square
meals day through the long winter
months, until the chinooks blow up
from the west in the early spring
days, when in a nice fattened con.
dition they ride to market in palace
stock cars and become meat for the
cities. Hogs ara treated with the same
civility, and the same careful atten.
ton to details. The porker leaving
this place must necessarily be prime.
Besides the cattle which he buys for
feeding purposes Schmid gives care.
full attention to the breeding of full
blooded stock. He does not hesitate
to spend a little money in the i'm
provement of his strains, and has but
recently added to his herd full.
blooded bull with a pedigree as long
as the moral law. He has also forty
head of fine horses and mares on bis
farm.
A Man 10 Lucky II He
Has Common Sense.
We might go on and say much more
about this party and his property,
but enough has ben said to show
what a man can do who has ability
coupled with energy. especially in
this section Of the country. These
qualities We must admit are not quite
often enough met with in any section
of the country, but if We do meet with
a man of this sort no matter where
We meet with him we always find him
coming to the fore. To the man who
has failed Mr.. Schmid is merely the
type of "the lucky fellow who was
born just naturally lucky, and WAC
makes money out of evtrything he
touches his hand to, the kind Of fel-
low who couldn't fail II he wanted to-"
But to the person of sound judgment
Mr. Schmid is merely the man W.,
has been able to see the natural coz
ditions of the times and take adU
tage of them, the man who has &c
one Of the real needs Of the count.
and supplied it to the best Of
ability Some will no doubt thtaE'
to argue that he put whole lot Of
money into his work, according to hin
own account. That is not to be de-
MED, but where did that money come
from? 1t was first made out Of ais,
work, and then turned to q place
where it could help him make more :
money, and that is merely matter %,
of good business management, more
of which is needed throughout the
entire country. The man who Is will.
ing to put forth effort in the develop
ment Of what is about him, and puts
that effort where it will do the most
good is the man who will be called
lucky. And it is always the case that
1t is the man who is putting In his
best efforts to promote the welfare
Of his community along with his own
enterprise who is really successful.
No man respects the fellow who re-
uses to work for the best interests
If the community; we all have a Ger
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