, 1923-06-24

OF the EARLY Days OF the
sheep as live stock. but as dead
stock. And the relations between COW.
boy n sheep herder may be likened
to the friendship which now exists
highest. ambition Of each was to be
between n X. C, n n X. X. The
one a pail bearer for the other.
II experienced almost twelve Years
Of Wyoming's picturesque period.
ming and the Democratic party in
the fall of 1894. A friendly enemy a
remarked, each was benefited. In ex-
p%erlence those years between Decem-
Der 1882 and. September 1894 seemed
prosaic and commonplace. 1 enjoy
them in retrospect, They now appear
to have been filled with and
adventure. Notwithstanding most of
my mail ended with please remit"
Why then. do l occasionally make a
happy hour the former days, re.
calling? Because, when the eye grows
dim. the ear grows deaf, and the
hair becomea silvered. memory mir.
rors only friendly faces. r~eproduces
only melodious voices. and films only
pleasant scenes.
"A few years ago a prominent New
York lawyer lunched in Denver with
two former Wyoming attorneys of
he brand OF the early eighties. Each
was an artist in embellishing truth
without distorting it. Subsequently
he told one of Mornings United
States aenators that IL one.half that
he would exchange ten years of his
he had heard at hat lunch was true,
aNnarfarNa Ia Nrnuv Nartr fou ,--1 a..
Wyoming. :.
About two years G in the Of.
flee OF the Brown Palace hotel a
young man listened to Billy Irvine
and myself exaggerating, embellish.
Ing and distoring history. The COM.
ment of this young man produced a
feeling of sadness in ms and I real.
lied as never before that the frontier
has disappeared.
1T is tempting to refer to n few
of the outstanding tragedies which
were woven into the warp and wool
of Mornings history between 1882
and 1893: and 10 describe some OF
the strong. virile. quaint characters
who helped TO make that history. TO
do justice to either would reouIrc
more than fifteen minutes. Besides
those present who are strangers TO
that period might be bored. Those
men were fearless. truthful and hos.
p!table. They loved the spice of ad
venture. They belonged to that
Class who have erected and who
have extended the outposts of ciyili-
cation from the Mississippi to the
Pacific. Where will their descendants
go who have inherited their long.
ing for the lure Of the wild?" This
reflection is depressing. Henry
Adams said: "A boy'a will is his life.
and he dies when 1t is broken, as
the colt dies in harness taking on a
new lfo in becoming tame"
None of the active characters of
Wyoming's picturesque period were
ever tanned.
The cattlemen OF the early days
had their problems. These problems
were courageously met. and most of
them were satisfactorily solved. The
mnge was then open. Now it is re.
stricted. Then the grass was abund-
ant and nutritious In comparison 1t
is now scarce. nor is it as sucu,ent.
Then as now. the most important of
all industries was livestock, and the
most important branch of that IN.
dustry was cattle raising. The COW Is
more important than the pillow: not
because the races hat live on beef
have ruled the world" u because
the chemistry OF her stomach trans.
mutes grass into the most nutritious
of foods. The elements of her labora.
tory work t~wenty-four hours each
day. "A plumber is supposed to work
eight 1t takes fourteen days or three
hundred and thirty-slx hours for one
Of Charlie Carey's COWS t produce
enough butter to pay a plumber for
ono days work. Thirty of her hides
would buy Charlie n pnir of shoes.
But I am Decreasing. Deprive the
human race of butter fat and it will
deteriorate and decay. IL not become
extinct. Eradicate grass and the
COW will perish When she dies
civilization viii disappear. Destroy
grass and in the course of the sem
turtles the earth's Soluble components
will be washed into the wasting sea-"
7 preserve grass and promote its
growth upon wyoming's plains.
meadows and mountains is our para.
mount economic problem. Compared
to grass our oil. our coal. our iron.
our timber. tho hidden treasures in
our mountains and the potentialities
Of our streams for power
dwindle into insignlncance."
At this point the speaker called
attention to the rapid spread of the