. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . re and judg-ment, the busi-ness will paylarge profits andprove a desirableinvestment. Wewould not, how-ever, adviseevery man toundertake it. Itis a businessthat must belearned, and tosucceed in itmen must haveexp3rieuce, cap-ital, and a goodrange. Mr. Ill I-has all of thes,and hence ismeeting withcorrespondings u c C3 s s. The26,00a head hen o w h
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . re and judg-ment, the busi-ness will paylarge profits andprove a desirableinvestment. Wewould not, how-ever, adviseevery man toundertake it. Itis a businessthat must belearned, and tosucceed in itmen must haveexp3rieuce, cap-ital, and a goodrange. Mr. Ill I-has all of thes,and hence ismeeting withcorrespondings u c C3 s s. The26,00a head hen o w has, hethinks, on an av-erage, are worth818 per rate wouldplace the capitalhe has investedin cattle at thesum of 6138, addition tothis he has 160head of horsesand mules, worth at least .$10,000, which are used,principally, in herding, together with wagons,horses, fences, corrals, sheds, stables, mowing-machines, tools and implements, and the larcetrack of land before mentioned. Half a mil-lion dollars is a low estimate to name as the sumhe has invested in this business, and yet from itsvery nature he is liable to lose half of it in thenext year. Like other business ventures, if aman goes into it, of course he takes the THE BULLWHACKKK OF THE PLAINS. but with care and good management we see noreason why he should not, in nine cases out often, win every tune. Let the tacts speak forthemselves. Ordinary men cant raise a halfmillion dollars, every day, for such an invest-ment, and if they could command that amount,veiy few would desire a stock ranche and thecattle business. ±iiii(«vU<ickers.—A curious character of over-land life, when the plains were covered withteams, and long trains of freight-wagons, was thebuUwhacker. He is in size and shape usually of vei-y large pro-poitions; verystrrng. long, im-kempt hair, andface coveredwith the stiffestof beards. Eightor ten yoke ofoxen were usu-ally attached toeach wagon, andoften two wag-onswere doubledup
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