Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-11

Enormous Areas That Are Under the
Control of n Single Management.

From the St Louis Globe Democrat.
Very few people at a distance, in think
ing of western Texas. Understand that
nearly the whole of ii is at present forced
up in mammoth pastures, yet such is the
case. Many of them are larger than CT
binary counties, and some Of them embrace
large parts of three or four counties.
Just west Of BelcherEiIle, Tex, come the
Silverstein. the lizard, AMI the Worsham
pastures. This latter contains 10000 acres.
and has one line of fence twenty-three miles
long. Pastures Of about this size continue
in almost unbroken succession until we
reach Armstrong county. There we find
what is known as the tioodaight ranch,
the southern boundary Of which is a little
string of fence eighty-three Zines long.
Charley Goodnight, as he owner Is familiar
ly known, is considered one OF The richest
men in the Panhandle, bur Z really feel
sorry for his boys IL he ever sends then cut
on a hot afternoon to stop hog holes in that
line of fence. 1t is hardly likely That this
is the case, however, as all 1ences IN this
country are built to turn cattle and :, ilhout
reference to hogs. There is a little railway
station called Goodnight. which consists Of
the Goodnight residence and the depot. AIR.
Goodnight lives in almost Oaronlal style.
Hls PARK contains deer, a drove If elxs and
one OF the few herds Of buffaloes 10 be found
in the United States.
Another fair-slzed holding of land is that
Of the Espinella Cattle Company. This con-
talns over l,0vJOU acres, aTd lakes n parts
OF Dickens, Crosby and lLmma couE les. IL
the land were in the form OF a square it
would be about nifty miles each way. The
Matterdore is smaller, out still includes
rather more than l.OO0OO0 acres. These are
both owned by syndlcates, with headQuar-
tiers IN London, and they are only two seiect-
ed at RANDOM out OF a large NUMBER Trey
have their bearing on state politics. II AZ
were not for the railroad commission, the
uniform text book biIl and tle alien land
holder question, Texas politics would MT lie
worth shucks.
The largest of these alien land holdings
belongs TO what is called The Capitol syndi-
cate. "A few years ago the old capitol at
Austin burned down, and it was decided 10
build another on "a magniiicelt scale. An
English syndicate agreed TO put IT az, and
IN payment therefor they received S.WOOo
acres OF public lands. Does The reader real
lie how big S,0O0.OOO acres of land isg Imag-
Inc slice OF land twenty-iodr miles wide
and extending clear across tie state OF Mis-
souri, at its northern border. Sucn a strip
would include the whole northern tier OF
counties and would be 'arger than several
states of the Union. This would be about
the extent of the Capitol syndicate's lsasture-
Few people have any idea mat there IS such
a thing as a single pasture IN one BODY and
within one fence, larger than some states
in the linton, yet such IS The fact. More
than that, :. is owned by a foreign syndi-
cate. Ii takes in half Of Deaf Saith county
and parts of several others.
Another large pasture Is that of the Y L
T Cattle Company. 1t begins with the
Colorado line and extends several counties
back this way. The Fort Worth and Denver
railroad runs through Z. Some idea of it's
size may be gathered from the Tact that the
regular night express train ente.s on the
south side of the pasture at II Is, and, after
continuous running. leaves " At ; 20 next
morning. A pasture which IL takes an ex-
press train three hours and a quarter 10
cross would be considered large in some
countries.