Year: 1874

THEY BECOME THOROU GHLY DEMORAL


lied,


Jump up and down like a flock O
frightened sheep, and before tn,
sportsman is hardly settled in hi!
saddle, he is among them, cracking
away with his revolver right an6
left. The antelope is tender crea
ture; one shot generally does the
business, and a slight flesh wound
generally brings them to the pot OF
the hunter. l remember little ex.
perience of this sort which fell under
my observation while hunting on
the Fountain few months ago. One
of the party fred upon a fawn at
Long Range, and wounded it slight
-ly in the neck. The little creature
tossed it's head and frisked about
quite lively for few moments, and
then stretched itself out upon the
grass, and was captured without re-
sistance. The ball had merely bro
ken the skin. Pity prevailed; the
life or the animal was spared, and
it was left upon the plains to take
its chance for the next shot.


Agriculturally speaking the South
Park will never flourish and bloom
as the rose; the alkali deposits are
too numerous, and the water too
scarce; but the grass is good, and
cattle and sheep thrive amazingly.
1t was once a great range for Buff
falo, and their sculls still cumber
the ground in every direction; but
they have long since passed away to
make room for the Texas steer and
herder. The most noted cattle deal
er in the South Park is


SAM HARTsELL,


whose hospitable ranch is situated
at the juncture of the North and
South Platte, 20 miles from Fair
play, and Is miles from any other
habitation. Sam settled down here
in 1864, with a small herd, and is
now the proud possessor of 5000
head of fine American cattle, worth,
on an average, about 500 per
head. His houses, barns, shanties,
stables, and corrals, stretch out over
acres of ground; while his corps of
herders and COW boys
move and work with the system and
of a regiment.


Once, Sam had everything his
own way: his herds roamed over the
country for miles, with none to dis
pute or make afraid; but the march
of Westward immigration has at
last reached HartselI's ranch, and
other cattle and sheep men, are now
hanging on his borders, One au-
dacious family has actually settled
down on the Platte, within ten miles
of Sans ranch; and as the latter
can neither buy out nor sell out to
them, he declares that his range is
and is casting


ABOUT FOR OTHER QUARTERS.


Sam did not allow this family to
settle down near him without enter
ing vigorous protest. He saddled
his horse and rode over there, one
morning, but he was met at the door
by the lady of the house, a strong
female, who encountered
Sam with fire in her eye and shot
gun in her right hand. He told the
woman that he claimed the South
Park by right of discovery and oe-
and there was only room
for one ranch anyhow, and advised
her to move off. She replied by
Ieveling her gun upon Sam, and
commanding him to move off; and
as he hesitated and seemed 10th to
90, she accelerated his movements
by filling the lower portion of his
anatomy with fine shot. When we
passed through there, Sam was con-
but he preferred a stand
ing position to any other. His en-
tire herd is now for sale, his houses
and corrals will soon be dismantled,
and Sam will seek other fields and
pastures new-some charmed locali-
5y where he will not be so crowded.
and where enraged females will not
be prepared to maintain possession
by virtue of shot-guns.


WINTER has SET IN QUITE EARLY
5hls season on the mountains, and
the road is lined with miners and ad-
some on horseback, some
on muleback, and the great majori-
ty on foot, all bound for the more
cline of the valley. They
wi winter at Canon City, Pueblo,
Colorado Springs, and Denven, and
with the June floods and
roses. We are 40 miles distant from
the main range, and yet our eyes
cannot bear to look upon its i'm
whiteness, while we are
cheered by the information that the
snow on Breckinbridge Pass is al
ready I feet deep, and more coming.
We have at last decided to turn up
farther South, and strike the Hoosier
Pass. If we make the rifle safely,
the Tribune readers will hear from
us; if not, 'tis full as well.