Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1882 — “There’s Millions in It.” [ARTICLE]

“There’s Millions in It.”

The Texas Live Stock Journal says that “no occupation in Texas is so lucrative, when the investor is willing to wait for returns on his capital, as stock raising. Some of the wealthiest men in Texas began with only a few head of cattle, and are now noted as millionaires. The occupation is easily learned, and, on account of the open air, active life, very healthful. Only a moderate capital is necessary for a start, and in a few years the investor finds himself the possessor of a handsome property, which increases with very little 1 rouble. It is computed, from reliable statistics, that a herd of 100 cows, in three years, will increase to 384 cows, 81 yearlings, 57 2-year-olds and 50 3-year -olds; in six years to 769 cows, 615 calves, 220 yearling-t, 158 2-year-olds, 113 3-year-olds, 81 4-year-olds, aud 57 5-year-olds; in twelve years to 6,684 cows, 4,649 calves, 1,633 yearlings, 1,160 2-year-olds, 834 3-jear-olds, 693 4-year-olds, 430 5-ycar-olds. Total of 14,988 head, worth, at the rate of @lO a head, 8150,000 in round numbers. ” Thb Duchess of Teck, who was, next to Victoria, entitled to the throne of England, lives in London, a portly handsome, Parepa-Rosaish sort of woman,