The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-01-05
ABOUT TEXAS.
Untold wealth srthe grazIers Of Pain

ABOUT TEXAS
UAtoId wealth ofthe graziers Of Plains
Texas alone has 3,8OO,OOO cattle
ldivided into $50, 600 beeyes, $50 900
COWS, and / 900, 900 young cattle. The
plains on which these cattle roam con-
tain about 120, 900, 900 acres. The prin-
cipal pasturages are on the Nueces,
Rio Grande, Guadalupe, San Antonio,
Colorado, Leon, Brazos, Trinity, Sa-
bine, and Red rivers. The cattle are
owned by scores of ranchmen, each
one of whom has from / 900 to $4,000
head. On the Sante Gertrudes river
is a ranch containing 81, 1872 acres. 1t
is owned by one man, Richard King,
and has on it IS, 900 head Of cattle,
20, 900 horses, 1000 sheep, and 5000
goats. This immense number of live
stock requires 900 saddle horses and
800 MeXicans to attend and herd 1t.
Ten thousand beeves aTe annually
sold from the ranch, 1900 young
calves branded. There Is another
ranch on the San Antonio river, near
Goliad, which gra8es 10000 head Of
cattle, and brands II 900 head of
calves annually. Ar. O'ConRor, the
owner of this ranch, sells $50, 900
worth Of stock each year, and his
herds are constantly increasing. In
1852 he began cattle raising with 800
head, and his present enormous herds
and wealth are the result of natural
increase. On the Gulf, between the
Rio GraRde and Nuece5, is ranch
containing 142, $40 arces, and owned
by Miffiin Kennedy. 1t is on penin-
sula, surrounded on the three sides
- fn n hAF
side, has required the building of
thirty-One miles OF plank fence.
Every three miles along the fence
are houses for the heTdeTs, and enor-
nous stables and pens for the stock.
There are grazed in this enclosure
Sc, 900 head of beef cattle, besides an
immense number Of other stock.
WHAT ONE PooR MAN DID IN TEXAS
IN TEN YEARS, RAISING STOCK.
A ranch on the BraZos river con-
tains so, 900 head of cattle, 800 horses,
and fifty herders. John HitsOn, the
owner, drives 900 cattle to market
annually. Ten years ago he was a
poor farmer in Tennessee, but selling
his land and going to the BraZOs, he
| succeeded by dlnt of hard labor in
getting together sixty cows and nine
| ing stock. He has now 30, 900 head
of cattle, worth at least $780, 600, and
| he is still only forty years old. This
man is establishing a stock ranch on
the South Platte, in Nebraska, where
he now has 5000 head of cattle and
next spring will bring in 10000 more.
There is n ranch on COnehO river,
Texas, where, / am told, one man
| owns 10000 head of steers and milch
cows.
BEST GRAZING COUNTIES AND PRE-
SENT BEEF MARKETS.
The best grazing counties I'm Texas
are those Of ThrockmOrtOn, Stevens,
Jack, Young, Callahan, Coleman,
! Brown, Tarrant, Erath, COmanche,
Palo Pinto, HiII and johnson. These
counties lie along the Rio GrandS,
Nueces. Guadalupe, San Antonio,
| Colorado, Leon, Bra2os, Trinity Sa-
bine, and Red rivers. The stock
from these counties are driven to the
| Gulf In great numbers, where they
are slaughtered, packed in steamers,
or put on alive, and shipped to New
| York, Boston, and other northern
/ markets. A great many cattle are
driven North on foot by way OF Abb
l lens, Kansas, and Schuyler, Nebras'
bka, Some follow the Pecos, and pas
Unto Arizona and California; Othert
keep along the Arkansas TO Bent'l
Ford, thence across Colorado over tht
Black Hills and into Wyoming
and on up into Utah, Montana
| Nevada, and Idaho. There are some
drivers whose names I cannot men
ton, but the whole number of cattle
| brought North overland from TeXaf
during the year 1870 did not fall shor
! of 100. 900 head. OF these 2, 600 wen
to Montana. 5000 to [ skh, 5000 +
| Nevada, 1000 to Wyoming, 10000 &
California, ii Coo to Idaho, and 5000
to Colorado and New Mexico. In
amount of money handled along tht
| base OF the mountains in Transferring
this stock was over 81 .250,O0. A
| Abilene, the great Kansas cattl
market. over 2O0,0O0 head of cattl
were handled, The Shipment IN Sep
tember reached co. 600 head, and il
October nearly 75 600 head. This i'm
| mense trade may be estimated Whel
II is stated that it took Ill cars pc
dav te transfer the stock, and on
bank in Kansas City handled SS,oo0i
600. cattle money. In Nebraska IN
cattle trade with the south Is JUS
beginnin0; vet last year $1,000 hea
changed hands in Schuyler, ard tn
First National Bank of Omaha han
died $500 600 in consequence OF thi
trade. III is likely the trade at Schuy
; Ier in 1871 viii reach 100, 600 head G
cattle, and it viii require - ,5oO,O0O l
carry it on.
, No DANGER or oVER-sTOCKTNG III
, LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Large as the cattle trade may seen
p ii is vet in its Infancy, not only I
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, on IL
Platte, but throughout the Unite
: States. The rapid increase OF on
: population both from foreign and dt
e mestic sources, demands a correspond
( ing increase of food, and at preseT
there is no product of cattle tn;
is anything like equal to the deman'
l Beef can be raised on plains, and d
= livered, at six cents per pound, an