Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-25
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| Biggest Cattle Ranch in
me World is in Texas.
IMPERIAL DOMAIN TRULY.
r.uslies IN Our Own Panhandle with
|, sIrs Fence 1000 Miles Long En-.
sissing Them-As Big as
AL Out Doors.


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HEADQUARTERS
. cAprTOL SYNDICATE RANCH.
CLAIMING, TEX, Sept. 20.
n i the biggest cattle ranch in
tiggest state in the biggest country
= 4 the world
"A wire fences stretch just around
miles, enclosing three million
4 Al land, and including nine coun.
n vholly or inpart, viz:
Alam. Hartley, Oldham, Deaf
n Primer, Castro, Lamb, Bailey.
ranch is about 200 miles In
n N from north to south. and varies
Z idih from twenty-five to forty
The number Of employees range
seyeuty-fve TO i50, and the
In expenses from $4,000 to s25,-
. aceording 10 the season Of the
being only about half In the win
. hat they are in the summer.
ere are on this vast property $50
mllls for Watering stock from the
4 wells, and two artesian wells; in
PASTURES there are
Il l3l, 400 CATTLE GRAZING,
he company has $1,000 or 30. 900 in
httening pastures Of Montana.
= cali brand last year was 2j,00s.
4 company has about 1000 head Of
tmgh bred Hereford and Aogus
ss.
I raising of horses on the ranch
"A horses, mule and cows ponies
'1lndle these great herds Of cattle, is
= Il Industry by itself. There are
Riddles and work horses, 250 stock
Needing animals, and lis mules.
4 ios the $50 or 400 trail horses, used
\ 70 spring to drive the trail beeyes
BE- Montana pastures.
: is 100000 acres of land, mostly
DE- Stakod Plain, and being a good
oriion Of the Panhandle, was given
eSas in 1882 for the macniilcent
capitol at Austin, a binding only
ID In size In the United States, to
Iapltol at Washington, and the sew
+, largest building in the world. 1t
g fact Of the land being so acquired
. gives the property tho name Of
. Capitol Syndicate ranch, though
locally knOwn--as all ranches are
ID brand, as the Y. /. r. This con-
|iwas made in 'S2 between the state
lexas and Col. Abner Taylor, OF
iago, representing a company com
ID OF himself, his father-in-law, Col.
book, and J. and G. b. Farwell, all
.hieago. The state asked for a capt.
n certain dimensions, style, quality
finish. Col. Taylor submitted
b be had made, they were accepted,
Ils given for its construction, and
land was patented 70 the company
b time to time as the work was
|pleted The property was bonded
Ingland, and there are a number OF
lish directors.
4 recent correspondent Of the st.
ss Globe-Democrat, speaking of this
'lh, says:
Texas lands went up and down and
fgain while the capitol was build
The then untenced and unstooked
Iurea was worth at one time twice
u the capitol cost. 1t was worth at
|iher time, when the bottom fell out
be cattle business, less than the
i0l cost, 1t would sell for enough
TO build half a dozen capitols. The
h mistake the Farwells and their
|pclates made was in trying to do
Eething with their Panhandle prin-
pity. Had they allowed the land to
pain as il was, their net profits on
capitol bargain would be larger.
It occurred to them that the thing
70 was to stock and fence. They
lned company in London. They
bonds and they put superintend-
In charge of a great ranch scheme.
fortunately the cattle Were
lght at range count. That is TO say
b were taken at kind OF haphazard
innate, which is safe enough be-
len cowman and cowman, but very,
h Uncertain between cowman and
IderioOt. But far more important
n the count was the price OF range
livery, The great Y. /, Il. took its
lle at $50 per head, little and big,
ing and old, and then saw prices de-
Ae to less than one half. On that ba-
the company was formed and on that
r. 1t has had TO payits bond coupons.
that basis also Mr.. Farwell was
mpted TO say he wished he had
Ter seen COW brute. The Capitol
dictate has made money on It's land
1t has lost on the ranch speculation
n having paid 100 much for stock.
'early everyone OF these statements
'Ds0lutely erroneous, as near as ! can
IN from two or three months stay in
5 region, and much riding and visit
over the ranches Of the y. J.. i.
nus did 20 up and down while the
'itoi was building, It Ia true. II is
true that at one time-shortly
er the contract was made, IN 80, be.
y There was any alien land law, and
lle expectations in the agricultural
were big and no facts worked oul
NE matter-tbe unienced and un'
'cked land was regarded as worth
lee as much rs what Colonel
ylor says 1t cost the company
build the capitol-that i
io0OO0. TIE land, he says, cost
m sl.l5 per acre: when the writer
ped above says it would, even with
ihe improvements upon it, sell now
enough 70 build hniia dozen capt
3 l. e., SIS, 600, 900, or $3.50 pen acre,
statement is slar-spangled enough
make even a tende.Soot smile. These
note Panhandle lands, fine as some
Hem are, have appreciated very
lch in the last few years, but moi
-fmously. There Is only u limited
portion Of them Immediately avail
e To the setter Of small means fol-
ms and for the pasture lands thai
" to be supplied with water by arti'
'ai means I'M the present state Of The
We busineas) there is not exactly
hot market. And 1 dare soy II the
respondent would find q purchaser
pr near the figure he gives theri
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