Show opportunities OF CATI catale LE BUSINESS old range days with reck and extravagance are gone forever J S hoy of browns park and well known in vernal Is said to be connected with the writing staff of the denver field and farm he has been contributing some borne splendid articles artl clea for the paper here Is if one on the cattle business it has become a settled rule these days to appoint committees to investigate anything and everything and determine the cause and effect of the things investigated following the rule I 1 suggested sug geste to some cattlemen who had been in the business from the time that a long horn from texas was a greater curiosity than a buffalo that we meet and tell something of the cattle rating business that might be of benefit to those who felt inclined to take up the work where we left off we are of the anant unanimous n lous opinion that compared to any other business nothing today pio itself that Is better and that no business has been conducted in a more reckless and extravagant manner the three of us agreed that the time Is passed when nien men could go to the bank and borrow money buy cattle turn them loose on the range without a reasonable amount of protection in the way of hay and winter pastures ies we are of on mind that if this protection is given that the slogan safety first Is assured while we admit the range urea area Is somewhat narrowed down and already number of cattle can be increased by raising hay to feed in n case of deep snow and scant pasturage on the range the ime was and Is to some extent yet when cattle owners f figured whether it was better to let a thousand dollars worth of cattle die or buy a thousand dollars worth of hay and save them this Is on one way of doing business that has brought bi ought range cattle growing into disrepute to say nothing about the barbarous barba ious cruelty inflicted on helpless starving creatures on the western slope of the rocky mountains lies a vast region unoccupied and still in about the same condition it was thirty or forty years ago good ranches can be made there at comparatively small expense on which can be grown alfalfa that will end winter disa disasters and reduce the losses to a minimum along the bear snake and green rivers in colorado and between those streams as aa well as farther westworth west north and south are several million acres of government land open to homestead and desert entry the western half of moffat county has not had more than one person to two sections of land this part of the countey can furnish hundreds of hornet homel for men who would like to engage in cattle raising in a small way to begin with and enlarge their herds as they increase the number of their hay stacks the more hay stacks the better ones credit at the bank and at the stores the reason the western hall half of moffat county lacks settlers Is owing to the distance fiam the railroad lall road but in making a successful ranchman and cattleman this is no disadvantage A banker once told me that he had always noticed that the men who live furthest from town the best and most of everything bankers are busy people so it does not help a fellows credit if he Is loaf loafing ing in town As to the loneliness of farm life we are of one opinion that we never had time to be lonely that persons who are lonely on a ranch had better not go onto one men and women whose ambition ilses no high or er than to walk the pavement and attend picture shows are apt not to t make much of a success in town or out while all the grains fruits apples pears plums and apricots apri rots are raised in parts of tho the country I 1 am describing they require twice the woi k and several timm times the risk that is attached to the raising of cattle noises or sheep the land is there with flie wood in abundance close at hand and pine timber for logs and lumber cedars fox posts ate aie within reasonable distance all to be had for the taking cattle raising cannot fall fail with hay in reserve plenty of hay and still more hay then providence and the banket banker will be within li hailing alling distance in times of fa famine lillne |