A NEW START 23 



I had not saved a dollar in Houston during the 

 four months and had to borrow some money to 

 get started in Temple. I thought I could well 

 afford to do so considering what bonanza location 

 Temple seemed to be. It was then a town of 

 about ten thousand people and a few miles away 

 is Belton, the county seat, also a good town. An 

 electric railway connects them. In neither of 

 these towns nor in any town within a radius of 

 fifty miles was there a graduate veterinarian. 



The surrounding country was thickly settled 

 with good farmers and it looked like a fine 

 opening. 



I stayed there about six weeks. During those 

 six weeks, I earned about six dollars. 



After I had been there a few weeks and saw 

 how things were going, I made application for 

 reinstatement in the government service and 

 through the good offices of my friend, the State 

 Veterinarian in Houston, I was given an assign- 

 ment on Colonel Dean's force in the quarantine 

 division. This meant field work, in the open, and 

 suited me exactly. 



I had been corresponding with a classmate of 

 mine who had located in Massachusetts. He 

 wanted to come west. Although I had done little 

 or no business in Temple, I could see no reason 

 for it, I can't see any reason to this day, why 

 there was no business there. I sincerely believed 

 that the business was there and would come in 

 time. I wrote my former classmate about the 

 situation and he came and took my office a few 

 days before my government job went into effect. 



