Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-08-13
A TEXAS TRANSPORTATION
The Rapid Rise and Hard Fall OF
The Cattle Baron

special correspondence TO 0iobe-pemocra' 4
It was The romance of the COW +
business which departed with the I
cattle baron. The reality is sull
here John R. Hoxie who built +
the million-dollar packing house
i'm Fort Worth, says Texas has
gained these grain grower and lost
nothing In live stock. lie had g
discussion not long ago with some
fellow capitalists who were mourn
inp the supposed decadence OF the
cattle industry. Mr.. HoXie dis
puted their lorebodings and the
assessors returns for county after
county were examined. " 81
found said Mr. HoXie, that In
those yery counties where the most
land had been turned into grain
growing the live stock had M
creased instead of diminished.
The explanation is easy. The
lonr.legeed, racer-built steer Is a
thi1r of the past IN all this region
which the grain grower has M
vaded. A stocky, short-horned anl-
NAL has succeeded to the posses
sion of what grass land is left. And
4 this rev conner, instead OF crust
ling an winter until his ribs show
through his hide, consumes straw
and fodder and cotton-seed meal
/ What would tho COW baron have
said In 1882 to a proposition 70
buv and feed cotton-secd meal at
sli 10 SIS ton and the hull- Tor
/ rouehness mt $3.50 ton2 lie d
/ have called it rank folly. There
is "a cotton seed mill at sherman,
another at Taylor, another az
Cameron. and there will be others
at Bowie and elsewhere. Every
Mound OF meal and every pound OF
the rough hulls of The cotlon-seed
are wanted by Texas cattle grow
ers. The Texas steer in ms modl
fed form of to-day can be iattenee
to the condition of prize beeI ii
10O davs of winter ON cotton see'
meal with hulls for filling On1
! man tried IL with 10000 head las
! wear and made a fortune. flill
will be In the business the coming
3 winter If they can get the meal an'
e bulls More good" cattle Wer
r shipped out of Texas the past sea
4 SOM than ever before. They brough
i nr;ces i'm which there was proht
4 They taught the object lesson tina
e henceforth Texas must send 7
market "fed cattle. stock caiti
o remain where they We're before th
n boom began and whero they wer
e after the boom collapsed. The
r have not vet felt the advance.
q Far ont toward the MeXica
e frontier a few Of the big concern
IS s6ll exist to remind the people
II the cattle baron as he was IN th
"a nalmv davs. Dan Waggoner hs
D. 10000 head scattered about, lO.W
at here and 1000 there, where rams
can be found. His home ranet
~ contains 10000 acres. lie ls q
le biggest individual cattle owner
he Texas. In 1852 there were twen'
at men who thought themselves
IS. biz barons as Mr. Waggoner. III
es Wagroner ranch was valued
$ 81 100000 in 1850, at s2,OJO,UlO
We 1881. and at s1,000,0JO in loe
as Mr.. Waggoner did load hims'
.e- with liabilities, and it his ran
tie doubled and then undoubied
1w didn' hurt him. OF the survivl
i'll cattle companies. those magm
d2 cent aegregatious OF capital WIN
ats acted as If Texas was steer q
TO thew had it by the tail, in loo2, |
ey Matador still survives. The Nj
TO ador company owns 10000 he
in- of cattle. and a pasture bought ir'
lod the state. which required 900 mi
to of wire fencing. And to-day tbs
on Is a law on the statute books
no Texas which says any land G
ais poration hereafter established sh
1rs aonlv own such real estate in 9
in state az may be necessary log
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