8Q THE BEEF BONANZA. 



grazed more or less stock, including horses, sheep, and 

 cattle, in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Montana. 

 The first seven winters I grazed work-oxen mostly. 

 Large work-cattle winter on the grasses in the valleys 

 and on the plains exceedingly well, and are in good 

 condition for summer work by the first of May. The 

 last four winters I have been raising stock, and have 

 had large herds of cows and calves. The present 

 winter I have wintered about 8000 head. They have 

 done exceedingly well. We have lost very few through 

 the whole winter, and those lost were very thin when 

 winter commenced. We have no shelter but the bluffe 

 and hills, no feed but the wild grasses of the country. 

 We have had 3000 sheep the past winter, and they are 

 in the best of order. Many are being sold daily for 

 mutton. Like the cattle, they require no feed nor 

 shelter. The high rolling character of the country and 

 the dry climate, and the short, sweet grasses of the 

 numerous hillsides, are extremely favorable to sheep- 

 raising and wool-growing. I have been interested in 

 stock-raising in the States for a number of years, where 

 we had tame-grass pastures, and tame grass, hay, and 

 fenced fields and good shelter for the stock, and good 

 American and blooded cattle, and an experienced stock- 

 raiser to attend to them, and after a full trial I have 

 found out that, with the disadvantage of the vastly 

 inferior Texas cattle, and no hay nor grain nor shelter, 

 — nothing but the wild grass, — there is three times the 

 profit in grazing on the Plains, and I have, as a conse- 

 quence, determined to transfer my interest in stock- 

 raising in the States to the Plains. There is no pros- 



