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Show streAt WEviojOFdwoys F'amouj "Plainsmen ojrthe 709s to Meet at Denver Colo Yielding to lhi onward march of civilisation and shrewd business mm. die cowboy nf the seventies hate bo-omo bo-omo the prosaic )uung business men of 1900. They no longer nre picturesque. pictur-esque. Their occupation no longer la picturesque luitli cowboy lir mil pinching have become straight awuy ulnni proposition niul thu fact hat filled with sorrow dm heirt of huu-dred huu-dred of the old-lime, genuine tow-torn tow-torn They have Willed to ee what ran fee don about tbe ronller but they en the tale of cowIhi) hardships nnd rx-rlletnent, rx-rlletnent, nnd the old-timer iirn unwilling un-willing In let the msn go by the board The bimtneiM In 1X70 wnt ery much more rUky and exciting than it I In 1900. a Ihey know from txperlcnrc 80 they will bold Ihr Denver r"iven-tlon r"iven-tlon to cmphnslie the fj(t Fine I' llrnml William nnd An-drow An-drow Wilson I) V Wyntt, Juilion llrmih A 1 Htcrtlng, Joie ih Farmer, Onssell IjiiiKford ami Ilrnco Johnson, nil during ptalnsniin of Iho 70'a, evolved thl ilim for Ihe demnnatrat- rendering at find n profitable market for the fat, sleek animals they not prodtue The business I conduct under iwrfect discipline and with stick business pret Islon n mark Ihe Irani, notions of a b uiklug corporollnt. Hach tattle toinpnny baa Its apwlil officer with liookkeepera, miprrla. tendrnt, foremen, general tnunajt'. ira, farmers, Irrigators nnd inodvri cowboys by the hundrtd Under the present system, neither mln nor snow has any ti rror for tie range owners In Ihe olden dart lie during the winter months There. Is no More of tho old lime nHunlnf at large and hustling for food to keep the cattle atlvo during the cold months Tho traveler crossing thl plain ee vast stack of hay dotllni Ihe country on all side nnd each 0 these Mai ks represent from 100 U W0 ton of fattening food 111 en the cattle tliennche. hwi hard In the changed character of thl biislmiM One no longer new In tbi el the long, lank steer, with loni boms and llabby side Instead, inn a genuine leef producer, will long Itack. roundid aide and n horn tra bend lie lis n good strain ol blood nnd I de ended from tire Willi pedigree With the Improvement In the quality qual-ity of beef on tint hoot there bale cntnn nililltlon.il carrel for the stockmen stock-men They now hnva to watch their herds a they watch domestic milmnts They must provide for their every kotpw?'.'7 . WJr. '."" , 3fmaf 'AvE<fiv?? pt to accomplish nothing beyond n temporary revival of tho western plain III to which they wero accustomed, and by which many of them made fortunes. for-tunes. Thl revival will take place In Den- Ter,-Ool , nest month, nnd It promise ro lie one of the most notable events cf recent year. And, nflcr the cow-Voyi cow-Voyi of the sevcntle have held their relelirutlon nnd have dispersed, the wnslcrn range buslnes will continue m H 1 condiicled nt the end of the century with method ns modern a nre used In conducting any great commercial com-mercial enterprise In the east. There nre for American cowboy no moro of the dn)s of danger which confronted con-fronted their predecessors Skulking Indians, yelping wolves, sneaking coy-ate coy-ate and roaming buffaloes no longer nter Into their lalculatlons. They do not have lo make wild rides to hcid off runaway rattle, or enter upon long nd dreary trips to find and reclaim rattle lost from the herd. Their cattle cat-tle now are kept well in hand, and the cowboy have little ' old-time excitement, ex-citement, and they provided with many of tbe comfort of modern living. liv-ing. And the business Itsilf runs along m smoothly as a railroad. It Is this condition of affairs that baa prompted some of the olil-tlmu cowboys to arrange for n convention of western plainsmen In Colorado. They want the present generation to know what the life of nn American owboy used to be, I,nd who go west ( become tawboys nnd to grow up with tb country nro Incredulous over Ing their early hardships and risks. All now live In comfort In Denver, and while the year havo touched thelt hair with silver, their pockets have been lined with gold When ..111 convtntlon assembles In the Colorado city those who attend will have pointed point-ed out to them the 1600.030 business block built by Mr. Krnest from the proceeds of bis cattle business. They will be Invited to the homes of other genuine cowboy who have made fortunes for-tunes In tho business, and who nro surprised to seo how easy has become the task of being n cowboy. During tho lost twenty yenrs there has been a great revolution In tbe range Industry. The days of scrub cattlo are past, and tho range owntr, Instead of sondlng their cattlo to the these sudiUn precipitations devastated the rungi and made It necessary for cattlemen to reckon on losse of !5 per tent through cattlo drifting liefore they rotiid be discovered nnd rescued by the circle riders The business It now conducted In such a systematic manner thnt these disaster tn herds ore no longir possible It Is no uncommon thing for a first-class first-class cattlo lompauy to have thou sands of acres of range land with coit-ly coit-ly Irrigation plant The entire rone of men during the summer I occupied occu-pied In watering, raising and harvesting harvest-ing alfalfa, a specimen of clover which la ronalderrd to be mott rattening, inrcu nnd four cropa of thl product nre ban 1 sled every year, thus Insuring Insur-ing ample nnd good food for the rti- want, ward ngalnat storm nnd drlvo the herd Into torrnl tn close proximity proxim-ity to food and water Thern era man)' details unknown to the early cowboy to which Iho rnttle owner nt to lay must give his attention Initead of furnishing feeders for corn district In Kansas nnd Kebria-ka Kebria-ka the western rsnrb man fatttnl his licet by the free use of alfalfa which la regarded by many (Xpert 111 better food for tho cattlo than inrn On 0110 ranch In Ihe vicinity of Dm er 3,000 acre nrn devoted to altalfi. There It a pumping plant, with mile ot Irrigating dltehea and laterals, and the saving ot cattle through this Improvement Im-provement last year was sufficient to juiy for the Improvement Itself Cattlemen ot today usually are of strong character Homo are of high social standing, and not a few nie collego graduate Many of them maintain large establishment In Denver, Den-ver, aupport their own stnblea and live almost luxuriously They direct a large part of their business by wire Itanch owner havo not been alow to adopt tho telephone In their business, busi-ness, and Ihe general conduct of the ramh Is directed from heiidquartcri by thl mean Instructions for rounding round-ing up certain numbers of cuttle thus are given, a nro notifications of up-proachlng up-proachlng storms, falling batumetcr und nralrlo fires Tha general method ot living among the cowboys has been Improved From Denver suppllo ut all kind are obtained ob-tained with ease, and the modern ranchman I enabled to get food and clothing ot a kind that wu beyond the reach of tho early cowboys Womon have gone Into Ihe ranch business In recent yeirs, not a few 0! them through Inheritances. The X U ranch, In lxilelllno. Tex , which comprise com-prise 40,000 acres, Is directed by Mlt Dorothy Kinney, Rhe now la traveling travel-ing In Kgypt, but she keeps In close touch by cable with affairs on the ranch. |
