HO THE BEEF BONANZA. 



tine Brothers, Nebraska, 5000 ; Maxwell Estate, Colo- 

 rado, 20,000 ; Benito Bacco, Colorado, 40,000 ; J. S. 

 Maynard, Colorado, 5000 ; A. M. Merriman, Colorado, 

 3000; Patterson Brothers, Colorado, 20,000; Keith 

 & Co., Nebraska, 2000 ; Dr. A. W. Bell, Colorado, 

 1000 ; George Burk, Nebraska, 1000 ; Froman Bro- 

 thers, Nebraska, 1000 ; Alfred Way, Nebraska, 1200; 

 Alfaugh & Grover, Nebraska, 1500 ; Andy Struthers, 

 Nebraska, 1000; H. Coolidge, Nebraska, 300; A. 

 Stuart, Nebraska, 400 ; Coe, Carter & Bratt, Nebraska, 

 900; Theodore Bye, Nebraska, 200; C. My lander, 

 Nebraska, 200 ; King & Lane, Laramie, Wyoming, 

 2000. 



There are many large sheep-herds in New Mexico 

 and Texas, but as these could hardly be called Western 

 herds they are omitted from this chapter. The Amigo 

 Brothers alone own in the Southwest over 300,000 

 sheep. 



Referring particularly to some of the herds above 

 enumerated, I may mention that of Willard Clark & 

 Co. It is located eighteen miles from Laramie City, 

 Wyoming Territory, on the Laramie Plains, and about 

 six miles from the base of the mountains. The soil is 

 coarse, gravelly, and formed of debris washed from the 

 mountain-side. The whole Laramie Plain resembles 

 the bottom of an old lake, and the basin, seventy miles 

 long, was no doubt once covered with water. 



Near the mountains the streams are small, clear, and 

 cold, being fed by melted snows, but in the valley, 

 where they are larger, they frequently overflow and de- 

 posit a rich, alluvial soil along their banks. In the 



