New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-21
The Largest Land-HOlder in America.

Mr.. George Grant, the proprietor OF the
famous Victoria colony IN Kansas, and the
largest landholder in America, spent Satur-
day in the CITY, Mr.. Grant is a Scotch gen.
tleman who acquired large fortune as
silk ne, chant in London, and who, with an
enterprise and energy as unt1agglng as that
of an ambitious youth who has fortune
still TO make, comes over here with his fifty
years experience and ample fortune, which
he literally invests in the virgin soil OF
Kansas. and in the improvement OF the
stock of the country. He is thorough be-
lever in the improvement of stock by
judicioUs crossing, and his example Is
already being felt far and near, by the
spirit Of emulation engendered among stock
rsisers to improve the quality of their stock.
Per contra, he is equally believer in the
degeneracy of stock from breeding IN and
in: and this deterioration, he thinks, is not
confined to Guadrupeds, but is mani
tested among human kind as is seen
among those Of royal blood and among the
Rothschilds and other noted families who
internarry and which he says If kept up
few aces will show that man in his degene-
racy runs back to the other end of his line
and assimilates to his original prOgenitor,
according to Mr.. Darwin, the monkey MIR.
Grant has just returned from chicago,
where he went to meet stock coming from
Canada. He left two bulls, Booth and a
Bates, both representatives Of pure FLOODED
stock, with Hon. John Mix, of Kankakee,
tie great cattle breeder of Illinois. This
stock will come through st. Louis for Vic
toria in couple of weeks. They are repre-
serted by Mr.. Grant to be the finest OF
their strain. Mr.. Grant has now at his col
ony ten bulls, six sborthorns and four An
gus pole bulls. The latter he has great
confidence in crossing with Cherokee cows,
as the majority of calves from these bulls
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more than five out of forty are like the
cows.
M. Grant has seven thousand merlno
ewes which he intends to cross with sheep
Just bought in Colorado. The cross will be
with the long wool imported rams, such as
pure Lipcolns, the COtswold and Oxford
downs. He will prove, notwithstanding
the prevailing opinion to the contrary
among sheep breeders in this country, that
the merinos will cross with the imported
long woods, and he ventures the opinion
that the result will be successful by putting
six to seven Thousand of that breed with
three thousand of the graded merinos and
pure merino, Spanish tups. He is building
sheep corral, covering twenty-one acres,
arranged in four divisions, with gates to go
out so as not to mix during the winter,
when the sheep will be fed on corn and hay.
About two miles south of the sheep corral
he is also building cattle corral, covering
about the same area.
Mr. Grants land continues to be rapidly
taken up by Scotch, English and American
parties. About twenty square miles nave
been already taken up by New Workers.
among whom are Mr.. Gunther, nephew Of
the mayor, Mr.. Shields, and Messrs. Clarke,
Fisk, Flagg, and others. Mr.. Moller, owner
of the largest sugar refinery in New York,
has lately come out with his wife and
daughter and taken up three square miles
along Big Creek river. An English gentle
man, Mr. Ratcliff, of London, who left
there three days ago, has purchased three
square miles for himself and four square
miles for ~ of his friends. They all
intend to come out with their families
next spring, and will build handsome resi-
dences. This colony differs in every respect
from other colonies founded in the United
States, most Of the settlers being persons of
fair fortunes, who are seeking healthy eli
mate and country life. Mr.. Grant will go back
for a few days to collect sheep in Colorado.
About the twentieth of July he will return
here and 90 to Kentucky to be present at
the stock sale on the twenty.second, Of
Alexander, the great short-horn breeder.
He then goes to East and West Virginia,
where he has already thorough bred stall
lion and several fine mares. At Victoria he
has the finest stallion of the light draft or
Clydesdale breed in the country. Mr..
Grant proposes to enter some OF the finest
stock at the approaching st. Louis fair, and
will doubtless be strong competitor with
the other Mr.. Grant, of the GrayoIs farm.
81. Louis Republican.