Show RANCHMEN RANCH MEN M EN ENMORE MORE M RE PROSPEROUS I IThe The romance of the range rider and the thundering herd has not faded into the realm of historical novels It will be with us for a along along along long time to come it is in fact more nore more in evidence today than it has been for many years The livestock Ih-estock industry of the west has undergone a great revival the cattle ranges again are stocked the ranch houses are places of great activity and spirits are high In the grazing country countr The rail rall railroads railroads roads with and without the Insist insist- Insistence insistence insistence ence of tho the interstate commerce commission have reduced rates for forthe forthe forthe the movement of cattle An increase in rainfall has made vast ast areas into profitable grazing land Modern methods have superseded the old haphazard systems Well Vell wind windmills mills and miles of pipe line now assure plentiful supplies of water The southwest has many hun hun- hundred hundred dred of thousands of square miles of land that is unfit for cultivation cultivation tion but that does afford good graz graz- grazing ing log The ranching business seems to be definitely on the boom More power to the modern cowpuncher even if it he does ride herd behind the wheel of an asthmatic flivver er |