National Republican., 1883-04-24
BosLER,s RIG RANCH.
Fifty Thousand Acres OF Land and
Twenty-Five Thousand Head OF Cattle.

Fifty thousand Acres OF Land and
Twenty-Five Thousand Head OF Cattle.
In an interview with st. Louis Globe
Democrat reporter the other day Mr.. j. W..
Bosler, of Carlisle, Pa, gave this account of
his western enterprises:
Dorsey got badly mixed up in the star
route complications and needed money, and
1--well, bought the ranch, although he still
retains some interest in It,. Dorsey will como
out OF all these trials and prosecutions un-
scathed, but they have and will cost him
great deal of money. A few prosperous years
in tho cattle business, however, will make il
all up to him. The great trouble with this
Dorsey ranch is that it was started on too OK
tensive and expensive "a scale. Hundreds af
herd-book short horn bulls at 81 900 each and
high bred stations at $1,000 are little too
fine TO turn loose on the prairies and if you
pretend to take caro- of them it is costly
business and the risk of loss enor-
nous. When he started Dorsey was
rich, and was making money by the
hatfil every day in mines and stocks and
politics, and could blow in $4,000 or $4,000
on his ranch at q time without missing IT,.
Men and times have changed since then, and
business and values have come down to a bed
rock basis. BY utilizing the finest pastures
for the thoroughbreds and letting the COM
mon cattle run on the range, / hope to make
the ranch paying investment. There are
now on the Dorsey ranch considerably over
10000 head of cattle and "a band of 1000
horses, from which we raise the COW ponies ,
and few heavy draught horses. The herd
ers use up over 800 ponies every year, and we
have to keep a large band of mares to supply
them. We branded last year 1000 calves,
and will turn out about 10000 this year. 1t
is only question Of time when the number
will reach 10000 or q, 1000, all of high grade,
and then the range will be the most profita-
bic of any on the continent / shall spend
my summers there, but my business in the
east will demand my attention during the
winters"
"Where is the range located|
"Well, it is in New Mexico fifteen miles
east of the Santa Fe road about fifty miles
south of the Ration mountains, with its south
ern boundary touching the northern line of
Texas. You see, Dorsey, through his inti-
mate acquaintance with the records of tho land
department ut Washington, was enabled to
spot and locate all the land in the region
named upon which any water was to be found,
and in addition bought out all the weak hold
ers in the neighborhood. In this way ho
picked up ninety quartersections Of land,
covering all the water for miles around and
thus secured control of II vast tract of grazing
land which is useless to anybody except the
owners of the Dorsey ranch"
"WhyP
" Because, as last rs he bought the water
spots he had them fenced in, and the cattle
grazing in the neighborhood had to be sold to
him or perish for want of water"
The Dorsey ranch is the finest and best ap-
pointed in the world. In addition to tho
land above described the willy ex-senator has
made a surer foundation for ownership by
purchasing an old Spanish grant conveying
absolute title to some sc, 900 acres, upon which
he has had erected handsome dwelling houses
for resident superintendents, employees, &C.,
and well arranged barns and corrals for the
protection of live stock. A railway station
near the ranch is named Dorsey, and at this
point the vast shipments Of cattle are made.
Bosler is also largely interested in a range
at North Platte, Neb., on which he feeds
Texas cattle, shipping them to Chicago when
ripe" Allusion was made to the report
that Bosler shipped the smallest and thinnest
cattle that left Nebraska and received the
smallest price for them. He did not attempt
to deny it, but simply said he made as much
clear profit on his shipments as any other
feeder or grower, and that was all he was
after,