The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-12-08
CHIHUAHUA" GRAN HOMBRE!
Las DiversiOnes TOmarOn Lugar
Aver en- el Corral en- el
Rancho del SenOr Ed
uardO Stauffer
Los vaqueros Daran Exhibiclones de su Des.
treza y Competlrsn para ANA Apuesta
de Ochenta Pesos

oS OeuSnso SCvS
The above effort is in line with the
spirit of yesterdays exhibition of horse
manship and roping held at the
Stauffer ranch, as Spanish was the
language used mostly by the vaqueros
during the contest and Spanish bits,
spurs, accautrements ana methods gen.
orally predomiIated.
The feature o. the days entertain
meiit was a roping contest between
Vim. Roach CT San Francisco and
John NJ. Taylor o. this town and was
the result of some friendly banter, the
evening before between the two men
as to which was more out of practice
in handling the reata, as neither has
used the sinuous cord to any great
extent for some years; both, however,
having wide regulations as experts in
this line.
Mr.. Roach is a wholesale butcher in
San Francisco and was raised in the
saddle and at the frayed end of rope
and is a thorough cow man and an
expert in all that pertains thereto,
while Jack" Taylor, as he is famil-
iarly known here, is one of the best
all around COW men in this part of
the country and only a few weeks ago
at this place defeated one of the best
ropers and vaqueros in. the county
in a steer roping and tying contest
and many were confident that he would
defeat Mr.. Roach.
The trial was for substantial wag-
er and the conditions were that the
men should work together, taking turn
about at catching by the head, the
other man then to catch the animal
by the feet, each catch to count SO
many points according to the neatness
or effectiveness of the throw.
The cattle were rather tired and not
very wild, which facts detracted some
what from the exitement and made
the catching by the feet more difficult,
hut the work was very well done and
the crowd was we'll entertained.
To make it more exciting, about
ten men were mounted and working
in the corral with the contestants as
number of cattle, which had been
sold bv Mr.. Roach to Geo. S. Nixon,
were being branded and vented and al
! together between twenty and twenty
five men were employed in lassoing,
throwing, marking and branding the
cattle.
The numerous spectators were kept
Busy climbing the fences as some of
the older attic after being branded
were decidedly ION the peck" and made
the small boys scatter like coyotes.
phe principal interest, of course,
centered in the Taylor--Roach con-
test. although some very clever work
was performed by the other men and
chihuahua" famous vaquero from
old Mexico, and John Westrope made
some particularly clever catches.
The official score of the contest as
kept by County Clerk j. T. Dunn was
as follows Caught by feet, Roach 2,
Taylor 6; caught by foot, Roach IL,
Taylor 13; missed. Roach IA. Taylor
Is; caught by head, Roach 10. Taylor
16; missed head Taylor 3.
The horsemen included Gus. Bartel-
my, Oscar Mcmillan, John Freder-
ickson, John Westrope, James Higgin-
son, "viejo Chihuahua" Dave Staun-
ton and an Indian and those ON foot,
failing, branding and making were
VIM. Adkins, Walter Scott, Fred Scott,
James Boyd, T. Colombet, Harry
Pierce, Mr.. johnson, VIM. Merchant,
Gus. Patton and Ray Summerfield.
Altogether the exhibition fully just
ified the fierce headlines above and
there were no accidents with the ex-