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Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
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ng, and thenecessities of the civilization which follows, callsfor beef and mutton. These plains must becomethe great beef-producing region of the continent.They are the Almightys pasture grounds, and ifthere are not a thousand cattle upon a hill, therewill surely be cattle iijion a thousand hills.The numerous tributaries to these two riversare from ten to fifteen miles apart, with high roll-ing prairies between—affording abundance ofwater with adjacent pasture, and this pasture isthe home of the richest natural grasses. Before you reach the North Platte River, youwill see conclusive evidence of the adaptabilityof these plains to stock-raising, and from thistime on to where the river is again crossed, youwill see numerous herds of cattle and flocks ofsheep. The snows of winter in these elevatedregions are dry, and not frequent. Driven byfierce winds, they will fill the hollows and smallravines, while the hills are always left bare, sothat cattle and sheep can always obtain access to
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the ground, and the buffalo and bunch grasseswith which it is covered. AVhile hay must becut for the sustenance of sheep during the fewdays storms may last, and for the liorses andcattle that may be kept up; the vast herds,whether of cattle or horses, will go through theniost severe winter that has ever been known inthis region without hay or shelter, except thatafforded by the ravines. The expeiiment hasbeen repeatedly tried, and the vast lierds thatare now kept in this region, attest the success ofthat experiment. In Lincoln County, of whichthe town of North Platte is the county-seat,there are probably 60,000 head of cattle alone.Eastern farmers and stock-raisers will see thatthe attempt to provide hay for this vast numberwould be useless, and if requii-ed would renderthe keeping of so many in a single county un-profitable. The expense of providing hay wouldin the first place be great, and the expense ofconfining the cattle and feeding it out would bestill greater. And if the buffal

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