The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-07-26
.EARTH'S BIGGEST FARM,
Miller Brothers 1O1 Ranch in Oklahonna.

were preparing for the race, from the
south in Oklahoma, anu srom the
Usage country in the east, all eyes
looked, and hungrily towards the Pom.
ca country, and horses were groomed
a.io jockeys trained to get there first.
AS the sun reached the meridian on
that day United States army officer
raised his pistol and fred shot into
the air. His troopers sprang aside
and looeca the great army Of home.
seekers.
Ont Of the mass sprang beautiful
bay horse, clean-limbed and shining,
and shot toward the south. He was
bestrode. by q youth, ettired as lightly
as o jockey.
From other points along the border
other race horses and other riders
leaped out for the prizes in the Ponoa
country. But the big Kentucky bay
from the Chilocco school grounds had
the lead, and, before the laundering
crowd of wagons and horsemen were
fairly under way, he was we'll toward
the horizon, over which he soon dis
appeared.
1t was ride of almost forty miles
but before the sun set the big bay
horse had reached bend in the Salt
Fork Of the Arkansas on the edge of
the Ponca reservation. The youth
Tho rode him slipped from his back
and planted flag il tLe ground. The
horse sunk to his knees, the very
heart run out of him, and died, and
the youth fell beside him and slept
long from exhaustion.
The youth was Joe Miller, now the
president Of the 1O1 ranch. On the
spot where he fell, Joe Miller has
raised a stone to keep afresl the
memory of his achievement in helping
to win the foundation of the biggest
ranch in the world.
To conduct the vast operations Of a
farm more than 500 times as large ss
the average large farm in the west,
the work is naturally divided into de-
psrtments. Thus Joseph G. Miller is
farmer and father to the Indians; Zach
Miller is cattleman and horse raiser;
and George Miller is Office man and
comptroller Of the funds.
The occupation of the Older broth.
er, as father to the Indians, is prob
ably the most onerous of all. It is no
joke to be sponsor to more than 1000
Indiens, and at the came time look
after the farming of $1,000 acres Of
corn, wheat, alfalfa, hey and vegesa-
BILE crops by about 500 farm hands and
cowboys.
Joe Miller, as he is called all over
the territory, while pretty young
man for so large a job, takes his>work
easily and has plenty Of time for sport,
for he is an ardent automobilist, hum
ter and fisherman, and patron of the
arts and music. Zach Miller, who
looks after the cattle and horses, is q
traveller and is one dsy in Texas aud
another in Now York. He buys and
sells train loads Of cattle as the aver
age farmer sells one. COW. George
Miller, the youngest Of 7the brothers.
loves q fine horse shove all things,
and breeds trotters and saddlers for
the very love Of seeing them work.
The work Of the ranch is 60 system-
atiaed that il goes more easily than
that Of the average small farm. Most
Of the business is conducted from the
81 Office 5in the mansion By telephone. i. IS
About the mansion are ranged the
:bnak houses 81 The cowboys, the big
dining hall, the barns forE the d mules
and other work animals, the granaries
end the tool and other work houses.
On sothes parts yof the ranoh are
other bouaea and barns. The whole
.is connected sby thirty.fiye miles 5of
telephone wires, 80 that Joe Miller at
the ranch house can talk With the
foreman Of the wheat aores, the corn
:aores, che watermelon patch !, the road
5oyerseer, the fence rider, the cattle
range So at Red Rook, miles away; the
telegraph Office at Bliss and 4 tks
whole eiuorld 7, 5over che long distanos ,' &,
In the Office, clerks and stsnograph.
ere handle ahe vasts clerical work; mail
delivered from .he railroad by, ), oar. m
5riorg, Automobi biles or carri ages carry,
baainesa and social visitors from the
railroad station, Hys milss ansy. and
infaet. the Whols businsss of the Bis
farm il eondusted with ths precision
q, y !, 4 BUSINESS hoass sin ! sity
Oneef the most sremask kabis featuras
,of the big ranch il shs. abounding HOG. 81.
:pitafity og ID. 70 y,iie sesms to wait