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Updated: June 15, 2025
There's just time." The dinner-party that night was a great success. In the middle of it Lady Medlincourt laughed softly to herself. "I must tell you all something," she said. "You know Guy went to America this year to see his cousin who is out ranching.
"Well, I was serious enough," he said. "There isn't a cow within twenty miles." "No cows? Why, I thought this was the ranching country?" "Sure thing. We sell beef and buy milk. Let me show you." He approached a packing-case on the wall, walking softly and extending his hands as though to touch it gently, and murmuring, "So boss; so boss," as he went.
In another two years I mean to be ranching on my own, eh? How's that?" The girl's eyes were bright with responsive enthusiasm. She was smiling with delight at this dear friend's evident success. "It's great, Jim. But how quiet you've been over it. You never even hinted before " The man shook his head, and for a moment a shadow of regret passed across his handsome face.
Clark agreed to the proposal cordially. In consequence it came about that Donald joined Thornton at the large Boston warehouse. The store was not new to the boy, for he had often been there with his father; but to Thornton this part of the wool business was as novel as the first glimpses of ranching had been to Donald.
He was but a noncommissioned officer of the Mounted Police, and beyond that he had nothing. Ireland had not been kind to him. He had left her inhospitable shores, and after years of absence he had but a couple of hundred dollars laid up enough to purchase his discharge and something over, but nothing with which to start a home. Ranching required capital.
And every day they come faster. In our neighborhood are a dozen ramshackle tents where these poor devils keep 'bachelors' hall' with little more than a skillet and a coffee pot. They call it 'ranching." He laughed. "What would our old land barons have thought of a rancho four by six feet, which the first of our trade winds will blow into the bay?"
Already several companies had been organized to engage in ranching, and the capital had been over-subscribed in every instance; and actually one would have supposed from the chat that we were holding a cattle convention in the West instead of dining with a few representatives and government officials at Washington. I soon became the object of marked attention.
The Texas drovers formed a social club and rented and furnished quarters, which immediately became the rendezvous of the wayfaring mavericks. Cigars and refreshments were added, social games introduced, and in burlesque of the general craze of organizing stock companies to engage in cattle ranching, our club adopted the name of The Juan-Jinglero Cattle Company, Limited.
"Here's the fly in the ointment. My side of the equation has been nothing but plus, plus. I am fearful that yours will be more than minus. You are tired of the mob; you want to get away from the crowds. You have a mental picture of the ranching business; horses, cattle, cowboys, knee-deep grass billowing through the great open spaces.
He recalled allusions in the press to one William Plummer, otherwise "King" Plummer, who lived in the far Northwest, and who, having amassed millions in ranching and mining, had also become a great power in the political world, hence his term "King," which was more fitting in his case than in that of many real kings.
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