Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-05-07
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CAMP SUpPtY. INDIAN TER.
April 10, 1879.
Deer Editors

Clarendon, Donley county. Texas, on
their arrival OF the ground; Through
your kindness we will in this say some-
th ny of what. and how they did,
Wagons next morning were early in
readiness TO carry out parties Interested
to show Messrs. Newman aud Morse,
of Mass. their land, previously boughD
some 1900 acres. held by them and their
relatives. The parties on seeing their
land were perfectly delighted. and their
plcws were going the day following
The teams were then turned in the OPP
posite direction from town to show
VIM. widney, 200 acres one mile from
town, bought previously-this we found
indiscrlbably grand, and the plow start
ed with rejoicing.
We next proceeded to find the land
your correspondent had bought. 1880
acres, with block of IL lots in the BUSH
ness centre of the town. All came up
to our best ideas, Of country and city.
We felt ourselves deeply interested in
behalf Of our young friend, Dan'l Sioert,
of Mt. Olive, and, on inquiry, found
that he had been making calculations
on the cattle business, and was inclined
to buy grazing lands. some OF the best
had been offered him at nearly his own
price. we saw a small portion OF it and
must say that it is the best we saw any
where. Dir. j. NJ. Taylor, one OF our
Young men, brother-in-!aw of G, III.
Moore, of Willow Grove, near Wood
stock, also selected one or two thousand
acres of rich grazing lands. The profit
on cattle IS said 10 be- very nice. There
are some four herds in our county, and
room for many more. The largest Is
Capt. Goodnlghts, it numbered fifteen
thousand head of cattle all counted, in
Guiding four thousand five hundred suck
ing calves. One of our men BROUGHT
ME a special invitation from the capt.
TO visit his ranch on certain day on
which he would correll his entire herd,
that is, pass them through a kind OF
s,ockade, SO as to handle Of need be)
aud to correct every brand; but | could
not 90. Some forty Of his hcrders knew
me as had preached in their presence
OH Sunday, in the colony's new church,
They were attentive hearers, yet their
habits of out door life gave them an
appearance rather embarrassing to me
at first, but soon passed away-they
were armed from head to foot, they
seemed o be almost loaded with car
fridge belts, braces and pistol straps L.
After the packing of blankets upon their
horses, then in rife packets within easy
grasp were the deadliest rifles yet m
ven,ed-these fellows generally had a
good countenance, yet we saw three
new graves that showed that it was
not best to provoke them. Three men
had been shot and all three we'll desery-
ed it-lfe seems cheap, and blood runs
easy sometimes on our frontiers, yet l
never saw virtue, refinement, ana re-
llgion stand out more conspicuous than
there, "a good man is perfectly sale
there without armor." The colony at
Clarendon numbers now some over loo
people, they meet in their new church
three times on Sunday, and three times
during the week, ranchmen. hunters,
travellers and roughs Of all kinds are
drawn there by the ladies of the colony
through their vocal and piano music
If Indians come peaccably thy feed
them-and none lett the reservation in
any other spirit, except the Cheyenes-
headed by Dull Knife. These made
bloody work, but our military soon cut
them of except seven. these saw IN the
Dodge city prison, they came up to me
smiling and holding out their bronzeo
hands 10 shake hands with ME. Il
thought should not rejoice over fall
len foe,) and | shook their hands III
friendship. Afterwards l was assured
that if they had chance with the same
hand they would take my scalp. But
had no fear of Indians though [ spent
some two weeks in their Territory anC
sometimes near their camps-as to the
prospects Of my young travelling conf
panions Sibert and Taylor, engaging in
the cattle business think it good, they
have a precedent in the history Of Capt,
Goodnight. of the same county and one
adjoining that account is that hayine
no funds of his own he borrowed the
money from a friend IN Ireland, then
served as an hirellng until taken III as q
mariner aud the business has grown to
AN immense fortune" Why should
Ireland come in for such great profit:
and not Virginias IS 1t not because that
the people OF Virginia who hold tie
capilol are so well fixed that they art
contentea. and look out for nothing
the struggling poor have no lead
crs to 90 forward and show then
how gain is acquircd-so Virgin
ia stands still Tor goes back
the one wont, The other cant. now thu
money of the one, and the labor of thu
other, thould 90 together away into new
fields Of enterprise, then we woul'
prosper, VIC are rather inclined L
northern Texas rs the best opening
Kansas and Texas are now the riYa
states OF the Ualon for the banner
We then set of into the cold ever.
thing north OF Kansas, and made NJ