The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-07-26

posed TO holQ an olO.tlme DuHal0 hunt
which the authorities in, Washington
put stop to. This is what might be
called right smart of farm. Here
are some points:
It contains $1,000 acres, or CSC
homesteads. It is larger than some
principalities.
Itincludes parts of three counties
and supports three towns.
The Miller brothers own 10000
acres, and the remainder is. rented
from the Indians.
1t is operated by three brothers
Joseph Miller, 81, president; Zach T.
Miller, Is, treasurer; and Geo. D.
Miller, %, secretary.
The ranch has it's own telephone
plant, containing 35 miles of wire snd
costing $4,000.
There are II 900 trees in the apple
orchard.
The ranch fenoeH cost $4,000.
The operating expenses are S., 900 q
month.
The crop this year will consist of
10000 acres Of wheat; $500 acres Of
corn, 500 acres OF oats and alfalfa and
1000 acres OF melona,
Ten thousand tons Of hay are cut
yearly. It requires forty-two binders
to harvest the wheat, and five steam
threshers to thresh it. Twenty now
ing machines gather the hay. Five
steam gang ploughs furrow the land
and 900 mules and 25 COW ponies are
used as beasts Of burden. Five hun.
dred men are employed and $4,000
cattle roam>in fertile pastures.
The ranch is incorporated for $500.
600, but no dividends are ever de-
clared.
The genesis of the largest farm in
the world, the 101 ranch at this place,
was in the year 1877, when George
Miller, a young Kentuckian, rode
through the Indian Territory behind
drove Of steers. \
George Miller had come west with a
few dollars and a lot of Kentucky
wisdom about horses and cattle. BE
saw a chance to make money by buy
ing Texas steers where they were
born and driving them on long feed
through the grassy Indian Territory
and shipping them BY rail to st.
Louis and Chicago from Baxter
Springs, Kansas, which ct that time
was one of the snappiest towns on
earth. :,
He .railed down into Texas, bought
bunch Of steers for SO head and
drove them up into Kansas, consum-
ing six months by the way, and sold
his cattle for $24 head.
The next year he started back TO
Kansas with half Of the proceeds in.
q coin boltabout his waist and the
rest in cigar box-all in gold.
4 Half way down TO Texas q Mexican
4 herder stole the cigar box and Mr..
q Miller had to return back with half q
drove. But the year following he.
4 loaded wagon with bacon, ssaned
4 goods and calico, and started South.
q The Mexican herders could not steal
this and he laid the foundation or the
4 family fortunes. 5s.fs.$7 .s.a:ss
"a During the long drives With cattle
through the Indian Territory, George
q Miller picked his own trails, and tho
one he oftenest found lay along the
Arkansas river, where che grass was
high and juicy.
This afterward became the reserve.
ton Of the Ponca, Osoa and Missouri
Indians. This land Mr.. Miles. s detsr. il
N mined nj TO- own some day il he could.
he settledin KanaEs, near Winfield:
and became es farmer and ranchm,aaln, RAM d !, ,
lands. 81 "a 4 81
sd 10 the course of time Oklahonts was
opened tosvhite settlement, and ii, even.
sually the Cherokee Strip. 81 I. il 25.s sS
on the day the Cherokee Strip was ai
opened TO- settlement : youth sat as
@ noon on tboroughb bred Kentuckys
'sehorse near the Chilooo Indian
SI'nooi, . fsR@miles south 81 Arkan-
SPAS City, Kansas. s.
SS3 ourr0undinR him were tlnny,aantIn nf.