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Show SUCCESSFUL CATTLE BUYER? A person, not unknown to notoriety, who once was connected with a newspaper in Salt Lake, recently established himself on a ranch in Marsh Valley. In order to stock his place with cattle, he came into Cache County to purchase calves. He spent three or four days in one settlement, and when he got ready to leave, counted up all of six head which he had bought. Believing that it would be impossible to drive such a large herd -as he was on horseback and had no assistants - unless he could resort to strategy, he originated the brilliant plan of tying the animals together in pairs, with long pieces of cord. This might, under some circumstances, have been a good scheme, but in his case it utterly failed. No two calves that were yoked together possessed the same disposition or wanted to take the same side of the street, so they wandered, each one, as much as possible, according to its own sweet will. Posts, [line unreadable] seemed to prevent a ?? in this way, within about 21 hours he accomplished the distance of seven miles, and when last seen-late in the evening, he was wearily wending his lonely way on foot through Logan bottoms, while in front of him, tugging and running, were the poorly matched calves. It is barely possible that when he came to the end of his exhausting travels, he concluded that buying and driving stock did not constitute his forte. |