Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-02
THE GREAT PLANS.

Soon to be Covered with TIL ousands of
sheep and Cattle.
To those who have for many years
held it as an accepted fact that the
Great Plains. the strip of country, forty
miles wide, lying between Ellsworth,
Kansas, and Denver, in Colorado, on
the line Of the Kansas Pacific railway,
is a useless waste, or something near
akin to desert, it will be somewhat in
teresting to read the repeated accounts
we have published of new settlements,
the advent of large colonies, and the
exporting of vast herds of fine graded
cattle and hocks of sheep to thai re-
gion.
The last heavy transaction, of which
we furnished our readers the details,
was the sale of upward of 10000 acres
of Kansas Pacific railway lands, in the
vicinity of Fort Hays, to old George
Grant, of London, England. Since that
time Mr.. Grant has been in Canada pur-
chasing thoroughbred stock, and has re-
turned to England to mature his plans
for the coming spring,
We now understand that charter
has been applied for to incorporate
company, to be called the Victoria Live
Stock Company of Kansas, with cash
capital of 100000. The incorporators
are George Grant, through his attorney,
Col Robert Ludlow Fowler, Of 50 Wall
street, New York, and President Carr,
Vice President Meier, Treasurer Gree
ley, General Superintendent Bowen,
Land Commissioner Devereaux, and
other prominent officials of the Kansas
Pacific Railway.
The object of the company will be to
purchase, for breeding purposes, large
graded cattle and hogs and focks of
sheep, of which latter some will be
raised with a view to improving the
mutton, and others for a fine quality of
| wool.
| Mr.. Grant not only intends to settle
his large purchase, before referred to,
with the best of English and Scotch
tenantry and breeders of thoroughbred
cattle, but on his present visit to En-
gland will devote the greater part of
his time and large influence to secure
the greater portion of the capital stock
| of the Victoria Company in England.
We are glad to see the sheep-raising
enterprise taken hold of by such men
as Mr.. Grant, who not only has unlim-
tied capital at his command, but will
bring out English and Scotch breeders,
and shepherds thoroughly skilled in the
| business, and spare no pains to insure
success. 1t has been proved that sheep
and cattle can be raised in that country
with comparative profit without provid.
ing shelter, or even fodder; bow much
greater, then, will be the success of OPP
erations conducted by skilled hands
with every aid in the way of shelter and
food which art and experience can de
sire. Up to within the last year it has
been enormously supposed that the
country WAS neither fit for agriculture
nor grazing. The former has been am
ply contradicted by the success Of the
experimental farms of the Kansas Pa
cifc Railway Company in those regions
and the latter by the successful winter
ing and fattening of upward of 10000
head of Texas cattle. And now we
have the assurance of experienced own
ers of sheep-runs in Australia and 9th
er countries, who visited that district
that the high, rolling prairie, and the
short and succulent curled mesquit OF
buffalo grass Of that district, and the
entire absence of burs, afford the ne plu,
ultra of sheep country. The Victoris
Company is decided move in the RICH
direction, and its success will bring {
host of imitators, whose focks anc
herds will ere long cover the great plain
along the the line of the above railway
and as our city is the shipping Quite
and mart of supplies to that great coun
try, the importance to us of this enter
prise cannot be overestimated.-S
Louis PdDer