The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-13

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great interest, and then says, 'Have
you written it up?" and / probably
say, why, no that isn't news" and
she will say, well, it is interesting
to me and ! think your readers
would like to read it," Then | do
some thinking and conclude that
that is true; what interests one per-
son is likely to interest others and
sometimes l have written up such
stories and found that people APP
preciated them highly.
A few days ago l went home to
lunch and told Mrs. Trego that had
had an interesting interview with
! Mr.. Coumerilh. He had been talk
| ing about the cattle business and l
had learned a great deal. said l
was going to write it up. | went
along and, told her some things that
Mr.. Coumerilh had said about his
transactions in the cattle business
and she listened with considerable
interest. After the paper came out
she asked me to read the Coumerilh
interview to her because she was suf-
fering with a pain in her eyes and
could not read herself. After | had
read it she asked, "Is that all?" and
then remarked that htere wasn't
anything in that article that | had
told her at the dinner table just after
talking with Mr.. Coumerilh and she
asked me why l had not published
| the rest of it. I said to her, "Oh,
well, what l told you was just some
of Mr.. Coumerilh's personal exper-
fences in business. | don't think he
intended for me to publish that. !"
But she said, "It was SO very inter-
esting and so very valuable, as
thought, l believe you ought to pub
lish that for the benefit of your read
ers. l don't think Mr.. Coumerilh
would object. What you have pub
lished will be valuable to farmers
and stockmen and what you told me
and did not publish might be even
more valuable to them. 1t guides
men in business and shows them the
terrible difficulties that men can get
into thru no fault of their own, but
thru the national conditions of bust
ness" | thought it all over and
concluded that she was right, so here
is the rest of the story. don't
think Mr.. Coumerilh will object tho
| am sure he will be surprised.
The Entanglements of Business
Mr.. Coumerilh had finished his in
terview on how to feed cattle and
care for them to fatten them and we
were about to part when he became
reminiscent and one remark led on
to another in about this fashion.
Yes, have seen a lot of ups and
downs in feeding cattle and in buy
ing and selling them, where l had
to hold them for while either on
the range or in the feed yards. There
are so many pitfalls in business l al
ways dislike to see man go into
something heavily that he does not
understand. If man is going to
feed stock he should 60 at it care
fully and study it thoroly. He
should always try to keep himself
safe. Unless a man has three tons
of hay for every animal to winter
and fatten on, he should not take the
animals. We take risk enough in
this world when we are prepared and
fortified for everything we under
take. A number of years ago l
bought cattle in the Jackson Hole |
country and made arrangements to
feed them down at Rigby and un-
known to me there was some second
crop alfalfa in the stack that had
been frozen and we lost 100000
in just few days by feeding that
frozen hay to the cattle. They got
it into their systems and before we
could shut off that feed and substi-
tute something else the loss was ac-
But losses like that are nothing
to what may come in the financial
world that no man by himself is re-
sponsible for or can remedy. Do
you remember the panic of 1917? Do
you remember how people could not
get money and circulated beet scrip
in the place Of money and every body
was in distress? You know that
panic came like bolt out of clear
sky. People were not expecting it..
At that time l was we'll informed on
The cattle situation and feeder situa-
ton and l was doing quite a large
volume of business. l had cattle in
he Snake river valley to feed for the
winter and l had cattle in Utah and
Nevada and at the time this finan-
,ial storm broke, l was away back
n Nevada, away from railroad and
communication and I did
lot know what was going on. I had
arranged with my bank in Salt Lake
City to furnish me capital to buy
lutte lot of cattle and l was back
n a big range country buying right
llong for two weeks after the panic
started. Finally got word of the
)anic and came out to the railroad
md took run into Salt Lake City
o see how. serious things were.
arrived in Salt Lake City at about