El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-29
STOCK MEN
AT WORK
Considering the Possibilities
Of the Panhandle
Region
FOR STOCK RAISING
Meeting Of the Live Stock
Association At Amarillo
And the Aims Of That
Body Set Forth
Special Correspondence of the HERALD.

Special Correspondence Of the HERALD.
AMARILLO, Tex, Nov. 72.-The
Panh andle Live Stock association. tn e
third meeting of which was held here
yesterday, was organized a. Canadian,
| Tex. in September last by twenty
eight OF the promin ent cattle men OF
that neighborhood, Col. Thomas Con-
nell of Canadian being elected per-
manent ch hairmau. The movement was
looked upon with great favor through
out the Panhandle, and in fact every
as consequence yesterday morning,
when the session. convened, there were
$50 names of active members on the
roll, and when the meeting adjourned
yesterday afternoon the number had
been increased to 10.
The association was called to order
by Chairman Connell at 10 o'clock and
after g few remarks he introduced
Lieut.. Gov. Browning, who is resi-
dent of Amarillo, and who had been
requested to deliver the address of
welcome to the members and their
guests. The governor, in the course
of his eloquent remarks, enlarged on
the fact that the association was or
ganized for two purposes, one being
the protection of its members, and
further that its mission was not, as had
been stated in various journals, in any
way autagonistic to other similar bod
les, but Identical in every respect. He
said that the prosecution of cattle
thieves, defacing of brands, violations
of the quarantine and maverick
ing were duties assumed
by the Panhandle association in behalf
of it's members, and that from its
funds would be paid all legal expenses
arising from the complaint of any
member alleging either of the above
reasons as q cause Tor action. He
spoke of the great future that was In
store for the Panhandle, of the i'm
provement In the character of it's cat
tie, the huge ranges that now are
rapidly filling with fine bred stock,
that were bringing today in the great
markets of the country prices equal to
those realized by the breeders of fancy
beef on the old established stock farms
of Missouri, Iowa aud Illinois. He be-
lieved that in the coming years the
ranges of the Panhandle would become
a factor in the beef supply of the coun-
try land that their product would occupy
a commanding place in the market.
After the address of Gov. Browning,
William Harold. Col. Chas. Good
night (of buffalo and short-horn fame,
the Panhandle country were listened
to. They followed in general terms
the marks Of the governor, adding
emphasis to many of his state.
m epts.
Several called attention to the re-
cent completion of the Pecos Valley
road to Amarillo, and the vast pos
sibilities it had opened to cattle
growers large and small along it's line
over the great platus. This new field
they thought, would prove a.gold mine
in time with its abundant water near
the surface, its rich grasses and the
facilities that the open
ing of the road presents
for shipment of stock by the establish
ing of numerous yards and wells on it's
line. 1t was remarked that the open
ing of this road had in q great measure
done away with the 'old trail," and
that the 'chuck wagon" would soon be
a relic of the days when it took twenty
five cowboys to take herd to market
and a month was consumed, whereas
now the trip was made in thirty-fve or
forty hours and two or three cow
punchers did all the work
Col. VIM. E. Bolton, secretary of the
Oklahoma Live Stock association aud
proprietor of the Oklahoma Live Stock
Inspector, published at Woodward,
pres ented letter from the Oklahoma
association asking that a union of the
two associations be considered, as it
as believed that should such action