LIFE ON A CANADIAN HORSE RANCH

Temuka Leader, Issue 1879, 16 April 1889, Page 4

LIFE ON A CANADIAN HORSE RANCH

The following is the substance of a letter lately received by the London friend of a youth of nineteen who is trying his fortune “out West”:—l am awfully sorry I have not written to you since I have been out in this country, but the real fact of the case is that I have had such a fearful lot of work to do that I have only just found time enough to write to my parents. It is an awfully jolly life out here, just the one to suit you, I think, and I should so like you to be out here with me to saddle up your wild cayuse (a bucking horse), and herd horses or drive cattle on the prairie. Last summer for three months I got up regularly at 4 a.m., , and saddled my horse, and held our band of horses, which consists of two or three hundred, on the prairie till nine o’clock at night; then I drove them into our corrals for the night. It was pretty tiring work having to sit in a saddle for sixteen long hours every day for three months. About July we cut our oats. In October we brand the colts; it takes three weeks to collect them from the hills and a week to brand them; we did about ninety—considered a good branding. About a month after I came I was “ bucked ” and dragged with one foot in the stirrup for sixty or seventy yards. This is considered a trifle out in N.W.T., but you bet I didn’t think it a trifle at the moment. About eleven hundred head ef fine fat prairie oxen have been shipped from here this year, so you ought to have plenty of beef in old England. The other day, hunting horses up in the hills I was lost in an awful snowstorm for four hours ; I galloped wildly about till I saw a hill L remembered this was about 20 miles away from the ranch—not very pleasant, eh ? The thresher was here the other day, and my job was to pack sacks with two bushels of oats at the rate of 100 sacks an hour! We began at G a.m., and never quit till 8 p.ra., with only an hour’s interval for dinner, so I felt played out for ever at the end of the day. I can catch a horse with a lariat pretty nearly every time I try. The cold weather is beginning and the ice is pretty thick; on some lakes it will bear a horse and rider. That’s nothing; when the real cold weather comes on yon can’t carry water in a bucket for a hundred yards without it gets frozen pretty well over. Coming here by Central Pacific railway I was blockaded for two days in 15ft of snow, without food; and the engine-boiler was thickly covered all over with ice, although the water was boiling inside! We bav it in winter about 45deg. below zero the whole time, yet in summer it is 140 deg in the shade. “Black leg,” a sort of blood poisoning, has killed a lot of cattle, whose carcases feed the coyotes, which are so numerous that we are going to start on a poisoning expedition. Fifteen of . their skins sewn together make a fine robe,

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