The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-04-22
The texas Cattle Kings.

Texas alone has 3,S00,o00 cattle, d.
yided into $4,000 besves. 950,000 COWS.
and goo, 600 young cattle. The plains
Oh which these cattle roam contain about
la2 eco, 600 acres of ground The priu-
cipal pasturase are ca the Naeces, Rio
Grande, Guadalupe, San Antonio, Colo
Eado, Leon, Braces, Trinity, Sabine. and
lied rivers The cattle are owned bv
scores OF ranchueu, each one Of whom
has from l, ,0Uc to 10000 head. On the
Santa Catrutos river Is ranch contain
ing "a, l32 acres. 1t is owned bv one
man, Richard King, and has on It Ca
OV0 head OF cattle, 20, ,00O horses, I .ouU
sheep, aud 5000 goats. This immense
number Of live STOCK requires coo sad
die horses and $40 Mexicans to attend
and herd it. Ten Thousand becves are
annually sold from the ranch, and Il, 900
young calves branded. There is another
ranch on the San Antonio river, near
Goliatl, which grazes 10 600 head of cat
tie annually. Mr. 0,Counor, the owner
Of this ranch, sells S75 0U0 worth of stock
each year, aud his herds are constantly
increasing. In 1852 he began cattle
raising with | 800 mead, and his present
enormous herds and wealth are the re-
suits OF natural Increase. On the Gulf,
between the Rio Graude and Nueces, is
ranch containing l42,840 acres, aud
owned BY Ir. Robideaux. 1t is on a
peninsula, having water on three sides,
and to enclose the other side. has required
the building of thirty-one miles of piauk
fence. Every three miles along the fence
are houses for the herders, and enormous
t1 los nd H.
srazed in this enclosure 81, 900 head of
beef cattle, besides an Immense number
CT other stock.
n ranch on the Brazos river con.
tains 50,oC0 head of cattle, 500 horses.
and % hefders. John Isitson, the owner,
drives lU,0O0 cattle to market annually.
len years ago he was POOR farmer in
Tennessee, but selling his land and going
to the Brazos, he succeeded, by dif.t of
hard labor, IN getting toget her sixty cows
and nine brood mares, when he went to
stock-raisng. lie has now 1000 head
OF cattle, worth at least $I50 600, and he
Is stlli only forty years old. This man
Is establishing stock ranch on the South
Platte, IN Nebraska, where he has now
o,0Qo head OF cattle and next Sprin. will
bring in 10, 600 more.
There Is u ranch on the Concho river.
Texas, where, | am told, one man owns
10000 head Of steers and milch COWS.
The best grazing counties III Texas are
those of TiIreckmorton, Stevens, Jack.
Dung, Cullahan, Palo Pinto, ilill and
J Johnson. These Counties lie aioar the
Rio Grandc,. the Nucces, Guaduluue.
San Antonio, Colorado. Leon, Braza~.
Trinity, Saline, aud Red RIVERS. The
stock from these counties are driven 10
the Gai' IN great numbers, whe1e they
ase slaughtered, packed in steamers. or
put on alive. and slapped TO New York,
boston, and other northern uIarkesS \
great many cattle are driven n.rti On foo!
by way ot Abiiene, Kansas. aud sS1Eut
Ter. Nebraska. Some iuIlow the Ieco
aud pass into Arizona and Cal fsrn.a
0 hers keep ong tne y kansas 10 i5cHt's
Ford, thence across Colorado over the
Black ii Ills and INTO Wyoming aud oa ~,
INTO Utah, Aontstna, Aevad. au.i Idaho.
here ate s 'me drivers whose ..aines |
cannot mention. bat the wliol, number Of
cattle brought north overland ffofn Iext,
during the year 1870 dIi not iall si.ort ot
lUJ.u0U head OF these 2U.UJJ went -
Montana, 5000 to Utah, S, ,;lttJ IN Nt,vl-
Ia, 9,Uoo to Wyoming, 1880 to tai 4
-prnia, L ,0u0 to idaho, aud $1,000 to
colorado aud New Mexico The an.olt@.
'f money handled along tie lase OF the
mountains IN ran f:rring this stock
vas over Sl,2oD 300. At Abiieue, the
:Ieat Kansas Cattle market. over 200.
10 head were handled The ship nents
n September reached 6D,oJJ liu,l.., aud
n t1rtnh.r ',a>:is. =, iti}u Lea.i This