New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1921-10-19
ARRIVES IN CITY
FROM FAR WEST.
HERBERT sALLET, CONVOY IN
MONTANA SIX YEARS,
VISITS HERE.
GRAIN AND GRASS DESTROYED
BY GRAssHoPPERs AND
cUTWoRNSs.

New Uhn citizens were given an adj
vance opportunity to get an idea as
to what, Western cowboys look like,
in anticipation Of the arrival OF the
three Wyoming cattle-punchers, when
Herbert Sallet, son of our well-known
fellow-citizen. f. ". Sallet, blew into
town Saturday morning. Unlike his
colleagues from Jackson Hole, Mr.. Sal
let did not come here on horseback,
but the fag-end Of his long trip from
the West was made on freight train,
which is even more disagreeable travel
ing than via the horse foute-at least
for an honest-to-goodness cowpuncher.
Six Years on Ranch.
The young man. has been engaged
as, cowboy on a large ranch near
Fallon, Mont, a small town some As
miles east OF Miles City. The name
of this ranch is the Lazy 3 "a" and
the brand consists OF 9 reclining
Qazy) letter "B'' with q letter "a"
Immediately under it, over to the lett
side. There are some 1000 head OF
cattle and about 200 head of horses
on this ranch and the seni-annual
roundups are very busy times. 1t often
occurs that the cowboys are sent out
on long horseback trip in search OF
strayed animals, and they rarely fail
to find them, even though they wander
80 and more miles away from the main
herd.
# Nearly Loses Life s.i2'si
Several months age, while Mr.. Sallet
was attempting to break a broncho,
he was nearly killed in the struggle
to, retain the saddle on the enraged
animal. His companion, who was to
'.ear" the broncho, method OF hold,
ing onto the ANNALS ears md thus
force it's head down so that the rider
can moulit), lost his grip and the horse
reared UP. A bride buckle almost
gouged Mr.. Sallet's right eye out and
he. was injured internally to such a
degree that he spit blood for few
hours after the encounter. His re-.
covery was rapid and complete. His
companions horse was gouged by an
enfuriated bull, while the latter was,
being returned TO the herd with a
number of other cattle that had strayed
nwas. The man also hasd close call.
-s-ao4 Cutworzsas Get Grain.
Prospects were bright in the Fallon
community, last spring, until cutWorlns
made their appearance and destroyed
the entire crops, which had to be re-
seeded. The grain had just started to
come up again, when grasshoppers.
staged a repetition Of what the cut
worms had done. This was followed
by an exceedingly dry spell, making
another seeding useless. The grass
hoppers literally covered the ground
and when in fight formed huge clouds, !
partially obscaring the sun.
"Honjaks" Spoil Grazing.
Montana and many other sections
of the. West, which used to be the
cattle grazers' paradise, have been rem,
dRred practically. useless for this pur-]
pose as a result. 81 the settlements
Of homesteaders which have been es-
tablished there in recent years. These;
ho1nesteaders, mostly Russian emf
grants, are called 'honjaks''. They
c0ngregate in settlements comprising
half a dozen families, each living, or
rather merely existing, in crude shacks.
These settlements, while scattered over
a wide area, have killed the cattle
grazing industry, as the homesteaders
break up the soil and erect fences aroun
their land. Seven consecutive years
of crop failures have caused hundreds
of these homestea ders and their families
to abandon their land and seek more
locations. Every family.
that was able tojget out Of that coun-
try has gone. 1T is not a homestead
er's paradise, by any stretch of the
imagination, according TO Mr.. Sallet.
Eight Bushels from 100 Acres.
One homesteader near Fallon seeded
100 acres to wheat, but his entire har-
vest from this large area aggregated
only eight bushels. Two and q half
bushels of wheat per acre is the average
yield in that locality. Most Of the
'honjaks' barely get enough off of the
land for seed, and only very few Of
them harvest a crop larger than the
of seed used.
Conditions Have Changed. 4,
There is no longer any occasion to
refero { The fcatEle country as the1
wild and woody Vest, az eonditionsi
have changed materially since theI
pioneer days. The cowboys do not3
tote" any "shootin' irons" around
any more, and about the only excite
nent are the numerous rattelsnakes
and coyotes, which are present in such
arge numbers that the novelty Of meet
ng up with them soon wears Of. I:
Very Little Rainfall.
During the period from last spring.
Until September / there were only FIVE i
a;nfaJlo IN tho 1yicinity of Fallo,, o. :.