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towns within a few miles of each other. At the same time the older towns of Las 
Animas and La Junta have been infused with new energy and are making substantial 
growth. (Eeview and Standard, Pueblo, Colo.) 
From the New York Tribune: 
Theodore Roosevelt has come from the West with a springy step and bronzed coun- 
tenance, and the general air of buoyancy which is the result of contact with the free 
air of Dakota prairies. He says that the days of excessive profits in the cattle busi- 
ness are over, because there are too many people in the business, and the cattlemen 
have to pay the penalty of crowding cattle more thickly on the prairies than the grass 
will stand. Mr. Roosevelt thinks that the present system of cattle grazing will event- 
ually cease and the business take a different form in different localities. The land 
that is fitted for agriculture will be taken up by the farmers, and the grazing lands 
will gradually be fenced in and the great ranches be broken up to make place for 
smaller ranches. 
Eespectfully submitted. 
GEO. VASEY, 
Botanist of the Department. 
