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Cheyenne ? Seven years ago a severe winter killed off 

 nearly one-half of all the stock in that section of the 

 country, and only last March, your readers will re- 

 member, there came such a blast of cold weather and 

 such deep snows that the railroads were blocked for 

 days and the cattle and sheep perished by thousands. 

 At the same time our ranch was entirely free from dis- 

 aster of every kind. The storm did not reach below 

 the divide between Denver and Pueblo. 



" The winter has been mild and pleasant, and no more 

 snow has fallen than was sufficient to start the grass in 

 the spring. Actual settlers, who have lived there for 

 twenty years past, say that they have never known a 

 winter severe enough to kill grazing-stock. We are 

 two hundred and fifty miles south from Cheyenne, on 

 the Pacific Railroad ; one hundred and fifty miles south 

 from Denver, on the Kansas Pacific Railroad ; and one 

 hundred miles south from the divide between Denver 

 and Pueblo. South of this divide deep and lasting 

 snows, the terror to stock, are never known. We are 

 too far . north to be subject to diseases induced by 

 warm climates, and too far south to experience severe 

 winters. 



"I do not hesitate to say that this is the grandest op- 

 portunity for investment that can be offered. There 

 are no uncertain risks attached to the business to eat up 

 the profits, as the losses are almost nothing and the 

 profits many times those afforded by other invest- 

 ments. As to profits, I quote your correspondent on 

 the ground : 



" ' In cattle-raising in Colorado, General Cameron puts 



