The St. Johns herald., 1886-09-30

assistance were unable to prevent
 his horrible death.-Gazette.
 On the Palo Duro ranch 1 found,
 says a correspondent of the Dallas
 News, at a station thirty miles off,
 one bunch of Hereford bulls, about
 sixty in number, that cost $27, ,000,
 being the finest imported stock.
 The bulls alone are valued at $15O,- 900 and number 2,000 head. Tanks
 are made every few miles, and ut each tank corral. These cost a
 great deal of money. Some fifteen tanks on this ranch, with corrals, probably cost $20,0O0. Every thing of this kind is let out by contract, and the work done by contractors, who are not connected with the ranch. Hay, it is also remember ed, is mostly cut and baled by con tract. Young men, at the seven camps or stations I visited, do the cooking They get better wages than city cooks generally, and, with few exceptions, save up their money. The station is not camp in fact, but house, with pens, large hay racks and grain room. At all these stations there is feed for hundreds of stock, to be used to keep up the poorest stock, during severe weather, and to supply feed for the cowboys horses and wagon teams. Many employees save their wages, and I was informed that this ranch company has $26,O00 cash on deposit belonging to the boys, who have saved up. They are per mitted to buy stock and horses, and keep them on the range, and en- couraged to invest and keep their money. They have little chance to spend money frivolously on the ranch, and they have to go out of the county to find whiskey for sale.
 
 There is not a drinking man on the entire property, covering an area equal to about four counties. In Donley local option prevails, and on the rest of the ranch Goodnight's will on this question prevails. He is dead set against rowdyism, drunkenness and laziness. Many of the young men are we'll educated and we'll hammered, and their inhu- ences upon the manners of others is plainly observed. The young man who drove me out to the Con- tinental Cattle Company's head quarters has passed several terms in the University of Virginia. They all seem to have the highest respect for Col. Goodnight.
 From him and others I learned that the old-timed free-grass ranch men even yet doubt the wisdom of the attempt to make the breeding up of Texas cattle on ranches pro- fitable, This may be the way they talk to their men, but all are i'm proving their stock. The area of the longhorn is about to close in the up country. The Hereford calves and yearlings keep their flesh in cold weather better than Dur hams or the longhorns. This was apparent wherever saw them. Ul- timately the ranch as is now car ried on must give way to stock farming, pure and simple, if farm ing does not drive out cattle rais- ing as a speciality altogether. Reeves from this ranch have sold nearly one hundred per cent better than the pure longhorns from the south. I forgot to say that at all the sta tion houses on the ranch 1 found files of all the, leading newspapers the boys seem to have read. Each employee seems to take some pa-. per,and altogether they have a great deal of reading matter. They have also violins and checkerboards, but cnrd playing is not permit s.