CHARLES L. YOUNGBLOOI). l^ 



quirv that it was not so small after all. I'he 

 ranche was about five miles from the mines, 

 where thousands of miners were at work, and 

 in the neighborhood were several boardini;- 

 houses, some of which had as many as hfteen 

 hundred boarders, and the poultry man found 

 ready sale at high prices for the products of 

 his ranche. Besides this there were a great 

 deal of scraps, crumbs and the like about these 

 boarding houses that he got merely for taking 

 it out of the way, which made good food for 

 the poultry. This made the expense of the 

 ranche small, arid he received from hity 

 cents to one dollar a piece for chickens, and 

 about the same per dozen for eggs, of which 

 he was selling at that time about ninety dozen 

 a day. He had about two thousand hens be- 

 sides other poultry, and as the labor was light, 

 the expense small and the prices enormous, he 

 was making money rapidly in the poultry 

 business. 



In this part of the country I received about 

 my first impressions of the animals of the 

 West. I happened one day to be passing a 



