The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-09-17

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i.siu. Information W tlo DAY iiund
and Cattle company, ! know nothing
but In order 10 satisfy myself oil the
truth Of your charges, 1 addressed
note to the company and received lht
Austin, Tesa., sept. 7, lss5.-Colonel John
DEAR sIn:- Replying % your favor
of the 6th, asking mo how tho DnY
Land end Cattle company proceeded
In ontsining its l0ass OF iuDliG lands
In Greer county, will state that % the
iirst meeting oi tho land board
stler tho adlOurument OF the
Nineteenth Lsgglslature, we wont
before sand bOsrd and asked thom
II they would lease lands in Greer
county, stating a. tho time that unless
wa could got tho watofod lands we
would not take any. Three members
Of the board were decidedly In favor OF
leasing tho land, hut we were III
formed that va would have 10 sOnu Ia
an application in the regular way, Wat
through tho district surveyor. ! Will
hO"o add that Senator Tetnplo HOus'
tor, of Moheetie, and j. II, Thornton,
Cf tho Galveston News, and several
gentlemen were pros0nt, Our @ M
pany, together with MessTs. Taylor
and Stephens, aud PumIhroy aud
Kuykendgll, oi Taylor, determined 10
make application, and b. before the
land board Vt its JAY meeting. Ac.
cordlngly, ! was instructed TO 80 o.
MobeeIio and make tho application, i
started, and got as far ~ Harold,
when | received /, legram nom
Messrs. Taylor and Stephens that they
did not wish 10 lease, rs they ana
Pumphrey and KuyBendall were
closely connected. L wired the com,
pany and was instructed to return. i
was sent to Mobeetie the following
month to apply for said land and ala
SO. The lands were aw ardeu TO US by
the board.
Replying further 10 your inquiry rs
to whether the FrRncklyn Land ana
Cattle company knew of our intention
TO lease, will say that / met Colonel
h, Is, Groom ut the Pickwick Hotel, in
Fort Worth, rnd told him what our
company was going TO do, and tried TO
get him to join US in leasing lands IN
Greer county, Texas.
l am respectfully yours,
+. NJ. MADDoN,
Vice. President Day Land and Cattle
Company.
Anyone else could or may hereafter
do tho same, as / presume the land
board will not be deterred by any
thing you may say. You say: "Tbo
la, DIS IN question Dsy lands) are very
fine; worth, Tor pasuurage, Colonel
Swisber conciusivelv shows, At least
20 conts sn acre" You are Mt fau.t
sgsiD.
NOT \ WORD OF TRUTH IN YOUR CON-
ILLUSIONS.
To Day Land and Cattle company
have now az the town of Harold, and
on the road tn Greer county, baroed
steel wire, sufficient to fence all their
land located aud leased in Greei
county. Now, the fact that the Day
Land and Cattle company was offered
81 per head TO winter cattle in their
pasture Is no evidence tnat the lana
should have been leased at 20 cents.
You say: "Perhaps il it had been
generally known that watered lands
would be leased tine Francklyn Land
and Cattle company, which Colonel
Swisher sbominates, might have
made better bid and Obtained 1t"
Now Colonel Swisher abominates no
one. He does not, however, like
thieves, robbers and prevaricetors,
and wants as little to do with them r.
possible. You may say to your
friends, the Fraucklyn Land and Cattle
who are NJ present occupy
ing q block of about 90, 600 acres, owned
equally by myself and the veterans,
and used by force OF arms as taeir
general heaGquarters,th that II they viii
pay us five cents an acre per annun for
The tune they have held it,that We viii
lease IL to them. In the mean time
they can take adjoining lands in tine
north, south, east or west from the
State at six cents per acre, al OF which
Colonel Groom knows IS worth twice
~ much as the lands owned or loas 81
by the Day Land and Cattle company.
I understand that there is somei hing
over | 1000, 900 acres OF land in Greer
that can still be leased, al
equal if not superior to the Day Land
aud Cattle company's land. Igive
HE closing senteace of this most won
1erful wonderful in that ii
II oro slandoTous inuendo-
rhan have ever seen in any paper OF
twice tho size:
"Colonel SwSher's communication
valuable in many respects; but to be
perfectly satisfaci DRY, shoul1 have tX
blamed the community ofinterest be
tween the Day Land ana CATTLE com
pany and himself and his faculty IN
Obtaining The valuable information
that the board would waive
it's rules with respect to the Greer
county lands" answer noGe what
ever. / never even had u JOINT account
will tho firm Or sny mem
Der OF tho firm. Last spring L ap
pointed Maddox Bros. & Anderson
inv agents to lease my Greer county
lands. They leased about twC-thirds
OF it ON the 18th of May last. / never
needed any Information from the land
board, and never asked any.
You could have obtained the valua-
bic information from the land board
lust as easily as l could. l answer
again emphaticaiiy that no commu-
nity or Joint interest exists between
the Day Land and Cattle company and
mysslf. They own land in ono part
Of the country, and in other parts,
10 to 80 miles apart. We are both
to make our titles clear To
this extent, and no farther have we
a community OF interest.
JOHN M. SwIsHER.