The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-16
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 SADDLE HORSE
Auto Has Had Little Effect--Unique Scheme of Texas Man to
 Dispose of Stock

..Whatever the automobile may have back rider, as quoted by the New York mack rider, as quoted by the New York Sun, it has had little if any effect on
 "It used to be thought that riding was g diversion or exercise for the rich alone. that only people of means and leisure the saddle horse.
 could ride horseback. That may have been largely true once, but now, while riding is still not an inexpensive pleasure there are many riders of comparatively moderate means.
 "I fancy that there are now more rid CTS than ever. Certainly the number to be seen in city parks has not diminished, and in summer you see now greater number than ever in the country. At summer resorts there may be found riders who perhaps never ride elsewhere, and other riders who continue to ride here as they do in the city at other seasons
 At the beginning of summer, ewhen their patrons begin to leave the city, great city riding schools send more or less of their horses after them. It might be. for instance. that such an establish ment would send score or more of horses to some resort. It is not alone at the greater resorts that such riding facil- ities are found; they may be found as well at many smaller places, supplied by men who make it their business to pro- vide saddle horses for summer hotel guests.
 "Such a man, for instance, eomes up from Texas. Down there in the spring he puts a dozen saddle horses in a car, COW ponies, maybe, and he brings those horses up north, perhaps to a place where he has been season after season. This may be small summer hotel and not near town, out in the country and T. sc Ia x.fx ,rk<~ or half mile away beside which the horseman pitches his camp.
 ''The first thing he does is to so to the nearest town and buy such lumber as he requires, Then, with the assistance of one young man he has brought with him as a general helper and cook he builds his camp. He sets up one big tent for horse tent, which along one side he divides into stalls, with feed boxes and hay rack, while along the other side he stores his hay in bales and other feed and sets up a rack for saddles and other equipment. Then he sets up in a line two or three wall tents, all hoored. and ono of them equipped with table and bench, which also he makes himself. This is the mess tent. and the others are sleeping quarters. Altogether 1t Is a very attractive camp, picturesquely situated as it is under tall trees on the bank of river.
 And then with hls camp finished and in order he Is ready to do business, and the chances are that there is business ready for him.
 If this is a place where tho forseman has been before his horses find riders at once. If the place is new to the horse- man he may have to wait a little till somebody breaks the ice; but when one man or woman starts riding others are sure to follow, and soon they are keeping the horses busy. Even at small hotel where you might not have expected to find many riders there will be riding enough to keep the horses going the sea- son through.
 At the end of the season the horses from the riding schools are sent back to their home establishments while the man from Texas may sell his horses, some to neishbcring farmers Hc is pretty sure to get for them on the average as much as they cost him when they stepped on the cars hero ct tho season'a stag(.'s