Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-12-01
CHASE DOWN WOLF.
IN AUTO; RATHER.
PUTS 'EM ON Jump
NJ E. PRlcHARD, IN LETTER.
TELLS OF EXCITING ExPE'
RiENCES ON TEXAS RANCH
SEES ROUNDUP OF THOUSANDS
or CATTLE.

sTeyas prairie, and then after they had
rcorralled the brute and killed him, to
Esuddenly learn that a beady eyed rat
xtler was coled ready to spring at
gtheir anatomical equators, or there
Ebouts, were two thrilling experiences
lin day spent by w. l.. Prichard Of
.Ouawa among the big stockmen OF a
ecountry where things are done on a
sbig scale by men whose hearts are
bproportionate with their physical and
commercial bulks.
Mr.. Prichard in letter which evil
licences his thOughtfulness of the folks
Rat home and their liking for good
estory, well told writes to the Free
tTrader-Journal of his hair-raising
Tday's experience, as follows:
Thinking some of your readers
Amight be interested in some incidents
Eof range life on the plains, VIII
briefly recount a little experience OF
Amy own which occurred the early par
kof November.
Last summer when | was return
ling home from a sojourn in this coun-
I try | stopped at Emporia, Kan, to
hmpet some relatives of Mrs. Arthur
4 Prichard | found them engaged III
cattle business in quite an extensive
! way. An uncle and a cousin, together
I with another young man, had about
athirty-fve hundred Texas steers on
4 Kansas pastures They were not the
ATexas steers of we olden time'-wid-
eyed and longhorned---bu the modern
A Texas steer-short horned, deep OF
tbodv and fiat of back, the sort that
produce steaks and roasts for the pat
Irons Of fine hotels, and restaurants
and the tables of the rich. 1t was
revelation TO me to see these splendid
animals growing fat on the large Kan
\ sas pastures in grass up to thei'
y knees. The pastures controlled by
4 these men comprise about ten thou
4 sand acres. They have for a number
: Of years been buying. their range cat
lie from w. l.. Elwood, formerly OF
y De Kalb. H., but now of Texas.
Y Last year they contracted for
cieht thousand steers, and one OF the
cousins informed me that he expected
/. to be at Lubbock, where Mr.. Elwood
y has his home about Nov. to round
4 uD three thousand head of cattle. He
! very kindly invited me to. joip them
4 al that time, and--4 very gladB &C.
4 ceptcd his invitation. for, though
have had a good many experiences, |
N had never seen real round up
= When the time arrived my old friend
4 William Croat, formerly of Ottawa,
drove me over from Rails to meet the
party AS the train was a few min.
y utes late | began to look for Mr.. Eli
wood as | knew he would be at the
station to meet the men from Kansas.
Y Now, this Mr.. Elwood and his father
HWere large importers OF Percheron
Y horses many years ago, and at that
\ time I knew him. but | had not seen
kbhn for thrty-fve years, and, of
4 course, we had both changed bit
n in that time. There was row OF a
= deem or more motor ears pulled up
Il q the concrete walk and | sauntered
v town the line looking for good car.
n Finally my eye fell on Cadillac, anu
glanced at the occupant, solid
4 licking genial faced man. and some
Il tlting said to me, This is Elwood. |
y aoiogi2ed for interrupting him. for
MA he was reading and asked II he was
\ Mr. Elwood He replied that he was,
"A and / introduced myself to the mil
n Lttaiellf g tfiAtiI Mus pHs ms thtN" -
I probably did not remember me, but
ha very cordially assured me that he
hdid. You see it was this way.
n "Abopt thirty-five years ago the Hi
aGis state fair was held in Chicago
7 aud the Elwoods made large exhibit
Go Percheron horses. 1t so happened
sthat | was Judging horses at this show
y. ana | gave Mr.. Elwood's famous horse
kCherie the first prize, | have no.
X ticad that If you give a mans horse
rst prize he will always remember
~yaa. ! have also noticed that some
smn will remember you if you don't
Save their horse a first prize.
1 But here comes the train. ! soon
asaw the towering form of my friend
jones' of Emporia. He weighs about
1.-Two hundred and seventy-five, with a
rcheery face and genial, wholesome
smauner that make one like him on
Hsght He had with him Mr.. Price
and his son. who are in the cattle
\ business a bit too. They own a little
I ranch in Texas of forty-four sections,
Z more than twenty-eight thousand
y acres, and are not stuck up over it,
h either Then there was Mr.. Humph-
rev, another cattle man Of sterling
IN qualities. You can imagine how felt
n while hobnobbing with these million
= aire stockmen, but they had way of
q making me feel as though ! was just
kas good and big as any of them.
A 1t is now dinner time and we go to
4 the Lubbock Inn and have fine din
n ner, and then start to the pasture
4 where the cowboys have six hundred
estcers rounded up for inspection.
II The purchasers have the privilege of
cutting out one hundred head of the
i poorest steers from the bunch and
\ buying the five hundred head that re-
smain
THE roundup is effected by the
acowboys punching the cattle on one
4 side of the pasture and holding them
together. Our Mr.. Jones mounted a
COW pony and rode round through the
1buaeh, pointing out this one and that
Ato be cut out A cowman was
amounted on a pony that knew just
uwhat To do and would follow steer
j clear through the herd until he was
eoutside the bunch and driven off to
Fassoeate with the rejects. These
aponies are trained to follow a steer
Jas q polo pony. Is strained to follow
ghal. AS a matter of fact. many of
1.-The best and most valuable polo ponies
sare bred from range horses.
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