Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 23, 1923, Page 9

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1923. s ical CATTLE BUSINESS HERE MUST BE|. On b= e8 (QJUSTED 10 MEET CONDITIONS So Says Buffalo Banker in Address Before the State Convention at Douglas; Encroach- ments on Range Are Discussed. Che Casper Sunday Ctitune ~ ; é Pint Ge y sell him for feeder prices when|I do consider that ev: the’ present cost of operation’ {s so| has the interest of the entire state|them, and the restoc ing of sreat. We must sell him as a calf\at heart, tho prosperity of his com-|ranches with additional exttle of yearling and, as I said before, if; munity in his mind, and the success! | “I believe that these problems can we cannot sell this young antmal|of his ov bank before! all be solved and that the cattle tn so as to return a profit on-the en-| him, mus himself to the solu- go forward in the fut Ure business the cattle industry of| tion of estion. Your gentlo- 8 in the past, occupying a this state will have to cense. men hown during tha past/position of great {mportance in the “Another problem for the future|threo years of adverse conditions| ment of Wyoming and con- to work out, and one which I feel is| that you do have the ability to work to be one of the main|safd too damn much alrea = We the most serious of all, is the matter|/out @ serious problem when it con.| sources of revenue to the commun — : |'Showa arta pied phen of restocking our state with Mve-| fronts you, and I do not question for|ty and of individual wealth to the! ms | Riis thy B ec tad stock. Beginning with. tho year|a moment that this problem will! operator. Trying for Soft Water Lae Mai gpa boa hikes 1919 and continuing to the present| also be solved, and successfully, if Pud‘a tunic: etectéa ovr the LUN women time there has been a steady shrink-| you will give it the same earnest of Gitlette| force water “all over town. ‘ age in the number of cattle owned| Study and consideration that you to secure | : in this state, due to causes which|have other difficulties, | enn, Tittleton: place will. be pur. | are familiar to you all. Hardly a| “The future of the cattle business Pras Sl de a AA had cattleman in Wyoming today has) then, as I PAGE NINE. 1 ery banker who| marketing an annual crop from our and! hill, so the city council decided at es, Ole.” 1a recent meeting to make a thor. hout! ough test to see whether or fot the stand) supply is large enough to serve the r no longer and so she needs of Gillette. Several holes will ‘Vell, Ole vy don’t you said} be aritied in the test. thing?” and Ole from the bot-| it is reported, of his heart replied, i I/on the hill to a depth of $5 fect and as tt “In concluding I want to thank you for your consideratfon and tell you that I feel very much as the young Swede who, in the olden days. before automobiles became a nuis- cing another effc ‘able wa’ A rig ts now located a dest I4t-| for water whl warrant such pure inh Lvasthet + ence heres lee see it, is dependent upon! ance, took his best girl out riding edge | chase. u eno’ ost 0 operate his rj these three things,’ namely: In-|one evening in the old one horse water has | ——————_—__—_ Netuk wales oF Women Aeros ak erecches ness successfully and if he continues| creasing the forage cropa On oee| shay. tetwen ne OI one, horn , acro: to take a loss on his operation from| farms; paying more attention to tho! a year to year it ts only a question| raising of of time until he will have reached | a point where those losses will wipe him out, “The cattleman himself does not have the funds in his possession to restock with and yet the fact te- mains that he must secure more stock. This, gentlemen of the con- vention, is strictly your problem. The bankers of this state must as- sist in the restocking of the cattle industry in order to establish that industry once more in tts proper po- sition in this: state. T realize that ¢ timo it igo soft of cattle, which in former times found no barrier to their feeding over hundreds of miles of grass lands, now find themselves hemmed in and pushed back into small, re- stricted and comparatively arid areas by the fences of countless homesteaders. the open range. Today that range Though mighty herds have been | is fencedup completely, and the pas broken up and scattered to a great/turage that was once his merely extent, cattlemen still persist in us-| for the taking 1s now chopped up in ing old, though once-effective meth-|numberless small holdings, all of ods in stockraising. New condi-|them under separate and individual tions require new means of being] fence boundaries. These conditions properly met, Such means are sug-] are so well known that {t is hardly gested by Fred G. 8, Hesse, Buffalo! necessary to waste your time with banker, who discussed the future. of| any lengthy discussion of them. the cattle business in an excellent; “It might be well to remind you 1 after driving down the road for| has ig _mile or _so without opening | a Send your automobile news td “Spark Plug.” Care Tribune, wator PARK HILL and paper delivered by proxy before the| however, that the principal source fifteenth annual convention of the|of profits to the cattle industry of ‘Wyoming Bankers association at) this state in the past lay in the pur: Douglas last Tuesday. He said. chase of southern yearlings or two “{ feel that I am fortunate in}year old steers, shipping them to having assigned to me such a sub-| our state and running them for two we have oil fields in Wyoming and we have coal mines, we have many diversified interests along a number of different business lines,—but per- mit me to remind you that the great- er bull of our land is strictly pas- Holman Acre Lots ‘Adjoining the City of Casper on the South ture land. The livestock business has been, {s now, and always should bo the leading and outstanding in- dustry of this state. If that indus- try is prosperous our state will be prosperous. If that industry suffers then everyone feels the effect of the depression, not only the cattleman himself but his friend, the retail mer- chant and his other friend, the bank- er, feels the pinch of his distress, "I do not pretend to tell you haw you must work out this problem, but phanseruna tebe Palak das PCS ject as “The Future of the Cattle/or three years on the open range be- Business in Wyoming," because any|fore marketing. Under this plan statement of the future is merely|animals were bought cheaply and a forécast—and one man’s guess is|run at a minimum of expense. That as good as anothe: And, as long! branch of the business is practical'y as we are dealing in futures, any/| ended today. In tho first placo statement I make will have to awatt/our friends in the southern states the unfolding of future events before | are asking and recelving much high- its‘correctneas {s proved or disproved| er prices for their ca than for- ‘The present condition of the cat-|merly, and if we bought them we tle business is well known to all of| would have to run them on land all us, and ff you had selected that as|of which we must either own or my subject I might have found my-| hold under lease. In either case self In deep water immediately. If) the expense of running them {s very you had assigned to me the task of| heavily increased, without consider. talking about the cattle business as|ing the heavy sums tied up in land it has existed in Wyoming over the| investments. The fact that the past forty years I shou'd not have|open range does not exist today been nearly so surprised as E am! therefore absorbs all the profit from atthe subject you gave me; because/an undertaking of this sort that has been'my principal ocoupa-|makes it necessary for us to dis. tion during these years, and I could| miss it from our minds. We must probably have told you stories andj face conditions as they actually exist related facts about the history of/and the whole problem hinges on that-business until you became tired| the fact that our range lands have of listening to me. passed to private ownership. “But the fact is that knowledge) “If we are compelled to either own » of-the cattle industry of the past in| or lease our pastures we must make \ this state is no particular indication an annual turnover of our products that one would have knowledge of} instead of turning them once in two the future, for the simple reason or three years, and if our old ave- that right at this time the livestock|nues of profit’ are closed we must business in general, and the cattle) look in a new direction. President Coolidge and his 5 tary, ©. Bascom Slemp, photo- graphed fn tho executive offices after Slemp had taken up his new duties, ore can take care of, which will have the further effect of making a cor- responding increase in his calf crop. ‘Whether or not these calves can be marketed at a price to return him a fair profit on his business is a question of the future and one on which the entire future of this in-) dustry hinges. If the cattle man “(EAT AND Wyoming cannot market his calves profitably he must retire from the GET THIN business, because it has not yet been demonstrated that {t 1s possible for us to market a finished animal. Corn fed beof can only be grown where! fire aes é is turning an o! TASS cuemy) Soro -SR2 good (corn Yay evallet 2 Deo eat eae chee of able and where the market is close. reducing fat have made this revision We do not have elther of these con-| possible. If you are overfat and also averse to physical exertion; 1f you are like- Wise fond of the table and still want ditions in Wyoming at the present time. ‘There was a time when cattle|to reduce your. flesh several pounds do this: io to your druggist from our western ranches, were sold| Write. the Marracle wor eee gir direct to the packers and went as| Woodward Avenue. Detroit Mich.,) killer animals, and produced a great-|and give him (or send them) one er profit from the better price paid|4ollar. For this modest amount of ta) Money the druggist will put you tn for killer animals over animals sold) the way of sitisiving your ennten to the feeder. With a lot in this location you are accessible to The dividend a real estate investment earns all other parts of the city. is governed by its desirability of location. Why not locate your permanent home on the Hill, where the pure, invigorating air you breathe, will brace you up and take you away from the smoke and grime. Do you think Park Hill or Holman Acre lots will increase in value more rapidly than lots in other locations? Will you let us show you these locations be- fore buying a permanent homesite? It pays to buy where there will be no after regrets. The master key which unlocks the door to business success, is the knowledge of how to make money, MAKE MONEY, A two-way opportunity to reap a big profit on & small investment. Any of those listed below will show these properties to you at your convenience. All are co-operating in this sale and the same prices and terms will be quoted by each, Choose according to your own inclinations and phone for an appointment today. Unfortunately for} for a nice, trim, slim figure. He business in’ particular, {s passing| “In my opinion the cowboy of yes-| us, during the last period of unpre- yn be you a case of Marmola through @ period of change. ‘The! terday must become the farmer of L NCCORARE NEST ha ompoundess cedented prosperity the laboring) tn ‘tcc, rdance with the fame Mast man and work of the United States! mon are ription), one of which acquired a taste for corn fed beet.| You must take attor cach meal and zy edtime until you begin to los: Tike any Gtheeaneyi tea ien G00 Ol: youtiser weedy, end. cxniie aint quired this was not easily broken,/ continue the treatment until your and the result is that there is prac- eiehy, is wee you Gesirs: Mar- tically no demand in any of the y haripon Tablets: are not markets of this country for beet th the heseeat heat starvation that.is not corn fed. This one lit: tle thing has had the effect of again WYOMING REALTY COMPANY 166 S. Beech St. o'4 conditions are passing away or have already passed. The new) farm the forage crops necessary to ones are confronting us and what) take care of his cattle. He ought to thelr solution will be still remains) forget that there is such a thing as ® problem. a steer and keep on his ranch and “Only yesterday the days of the|in his pastures no mature animal open. range were etill with us, Af-|except breeding cows. If he will run ter leaving our irrigated valleys our| his business on that basis, selling cattle had amobstructed range for! his calves in the fall, ho has accom- many miles: in -every dtrectton and} plished one-half of hig problem by every man operating Mvestock with-| having an annual turn over of his in. this. state worked under those) product, and by eliminating the conditions, was familiar with them, | steers from his herd he naturally in- and-ran his outfit on the basis of'croases the number of cows that he tomorrow. He must raise on his The Western Realty and Lot . Sales Company Main Floor P. and R. Bldg., Formerly Moose Bldg. 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