A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



ically great questions were studied and weighed by 

 him before they found expression. In over thirty 

 years of our close association, when I wanted a pro- 

 found opinion I sought him. I recall that when in 

 Florida, in the winter of 1917, I met him casually in 

 a restaurant In Jacksonville. His and my time was 

 limited, but in talking an hour over the studies that I 

 had been making, everything that I wrote later about 

 Florida carried his impress. 



Among the bright men whom I saw much of in the 

 early public sale days was Geo. P. Belows, an 

 unusually handsome man, of strong personal mag- 

 netism, grace of manner and decisive, courteous 

 speech. It was in every way logical that he should 

 drift into the live stock auctioneering business, in 

 which, but for his untimely accidental death, I am 

 confident that he would have become the premier, 

 and yet the agricultural press lost a great exponent 

 when he changed his vocation. 



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