Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-01-05
n. o. WALLACEs ]
From the Omaha Herald.
a Big Business.
The Texas Cattle eTrade-Who Own
the Big Herds.

OF North America. While
New 7 ork, with herd, 900, ,000in-
habitants and her settlements
, two, and half centuries old, has
! 649,OO0 oxen and stock cattle /;
, while Pennsylvania, with more
; than 5000, 900 people, has 721,-
600 cattle while Ohio, with g.
) 600, 1000 people, has 749, 900 cat
: tie while Illinois, with $780,
900 people, has 867, 900 cattle /;
while Iowa, with ], 100000 peo-
pie, has 686,000 cattle, Texas, not
) forty years of age, and with her
100000 people, had 100000
head of oxen and ether cattle,
exclusive of COWS, in 1867, as
shown by the returns Of the
County Assessors. In 1870,
allowing for the difference be-
tween the actual number of
cattle owned and the number
returned for taxation, there must
be fully 100000 heads of
beeves and stock cattle. This
is exclusive Of COWS, which, at
the same time, are reported at
100000 head. In 1872 they
must number 100000, making
a grand total of 100000 head
of cattle in Texas. One-fourth
of these are beeves, one-fourth
are COWS, and the other two
fourths are yearlings and two
year olds. There would, there
fore, be $4,000 beeves, $4,000
COWS, and 100000 young cat
tie. There are annually raised
and branded 100000 calves
These cattle are raised on the
great plains Of Texas, which
contain 100000 acres.
In the vast regions watered
by the Rio Grande, Nueces,
Gaudaloupe, San Antonio, Col
orado, Leon, Brazos, Trinity,
Sabine and Red rivers, these
millions of cattle Craze upon
almost tropical growths of veg
citation. They are owned by
ranchmen, who own from 1000
$4,000 head each.
On the Santa Catrutos river
= is the rancho of Colonel Rich
ard King, known as the HSanta
Catrutos Rancho" This rancho
consists of nineteen Spanish
triggeus of land, or 83,142
acres. It's watered plentifully
t by the Santa Catrutos river
and its tributaries. On this
rancho are the immense number
of $4,000 cattle, 10000 horses,
1000 sheep and 5000 goats i
: One thousand saddle horses and
s 320 Mexicans are constantly
J, employed in herding, and gath
a ering and driving this stock
b Colonel King brands annually
j $4,000 calves, and sells 10000
8 beef cattle yearly, and invests
2 the proceeds in stock cattle,
t thereby adding to the natural
n increase.
e O'Connor's rancho, twenty
) miles below Goliad, on the San
e Antonio river, is another prince
|, lv estate. He had 10000 cat.
t tie in 1862, branded 11,77l
d calves, and was selling from
e $4,000 to $4,000 worth of
;, beef cattle annually. The
n foundation for this wealth were
s. laid in 1852, when he com
It menced grazing with 1900 cat.
d tie. The Robidoux rancho, OF
IS the Gulf, between the mouths
a of the Rio Grande and the Neu
). ces, owned by Mr.. Kennedy
N contains 1880 acres. 1t is ;
sr fertile peninsula, jutting out in
er to the Gulf, and is fenced OF
b, three sides by thirty miles OF
1t plank fence. Every threem miles
1T of this fence has a little ranch,
he for Mexican herders. In thi
il enclosure are $4,000 beef cattle
he alone besides other stock
# These three are types of th'
he men in the older cattle growing
is region near the Gulf.
The frontier counties are al
rich in stock. Jack Young
at Throgmorton, Stevens, Gala
n. han, Coleman, Brown, Torrent
~ Elrath, Comanche, Palopintc
he Hit, and johnson are all grea
ne stock counties. These countie
ly comprise the country draine
Of by the thousand streams tha
e. form the Rio Grande, NueeeE
~. Gaudaloupe, Colorado, Leor
on Brazos, Trinity. Sabine and Re
chl Rivers, and is one of the bef
NO watered regions in Americs
The bluffs and table lands boz