Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-18

An Omahs sreasal sssys the latest strike
of j. W. Bosier. refractory witrssz n,
,he Star kogse trial, il the purchase of
the great Dorsey ranch In New Mexico.
the particulars Of which BosIer tells as
follows.
Dorsey got badly mixed mp IN the
Sta, Route complications. and needed
money. and well. | bought she ranch,
although he still retains some interest
Ia IT. Dorsey gill come OF. Of all these
trials and prosecutions cnseathed, bu.
they have and vii! COS. him a great deal
OF money. A few prosperous years IN
the cattle b7siness. however. will make
II all Up 70 him The great trolb.e With
this Dorsey ranch Is tina. II WAS started
on too extensive and expensive scale.
Hundreds of herd book saors-h horn bulls
At 5000 each and hish-bfsd stations at
fSD are a little too fine so turn loose
on the prairies; and if you pretend TO
take care of them il Is costly business,
and the risk of loss enormous. When
he started Dorsey was rich, and WAS
making money by the hatful every dav
IN mines and stocks and-polisics, and
could blow in $500 or $4,000 or his
ranch at time without missing II. Men
and times have changed since then, and
business and values have come down To
a bedrock basis. By utilizing the finest
pastures for ths thorous hbreds and let
ting the common cattle run on the range,
hope to make the ranch paying IN
ves.ruent. There are now on the Dorsey
ranch considerably over 1900 lead Of
cattle and band of ECO horses, from
which Wa raise the COW ponies and a
few heavy draught horses. The herders
use up over 500 ponies every year, and
we have to keep large band of mares
to supply them. We branded last year
700 calves, and will turn out abou. TO-
90 this year. II il only question CT
time when the number will reach D,to
or $500, all of high grade, and then
the ranch will be the mos; profitable OF
any on the continent. shall spend my
summers there. but my business in the
East will demand my attention during
the winters"
"Where ID the ranch located!'
well, it is in New Mexico, fifteen
miles east of the Santa Fe road, about
fifty miles south of the Ration Noun
tains, with its southern boundary touch
ing the northern line of Texas. You
SEQ Dorsey, through his intimate ac-
quaintance with the records of the Land
department at Washington, was enabled
10 spot or locate all the land in the re-
gIon named upon which any water was
TO be found, and in addition bought out
all the weak holders In the neighbor-
TODD. In this way he picked up ninety
quarter sections of land, covering all
the water for miles around, and thus
secured control of a vast tract of graz
ing land, which Is useless to anybody
except the owners of the Dorsey ranch.
Why"
Because. as fast us he bought the
water spots he had them fenced IN, and
the cattle grazing i'll the neighborhood
mad to be sold to him or perish for want
of water"
The Dorsey ranch is the finest and
best appointed In the world. In addi-
ton to the land above described, the
willy ex Senator made surer foundation
for ownership by purchasing an old
Spanish grant conveying absolute title
90 some 5000 acres, upon which lie has
hid erected handsome dwelling houses
for tho resident superintendent. en-
pioyees &c., and well arranged barns
anu corrals for the protection OF live
stock. A railroad station near the
ranch is named Dorsey, and at this
point the vast shipments of market cat
tie are made.
BOsler is also largely interested in IA
range at North Platte, Nebraska, upon
which he feeds Texas cattle, shipping
them To Chicago when ripe" Allusion
was made to the report that Bosier
shipped the smallest and thinnest cattle
that left Nebraska, and received tie
smallest price for them. He did not
attempt to deny it, but simply said he
made as much clear profit on his snip
mcnts as any other feeder or grower, and
that was all he was after.