The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-11-13

where also is located the Good
night herd of buffalo and catalo
(catalo being cross between
the buffalo and polled Angus
breed of cattle).
BREEDING OF CATALO.
This ranch and herd of ami
mails should be purchased by the
Government and the breeding of
the catalo continued and fully
developed. | am confident that
this hybrid known as catalo will
prove to be a much better and
harder animal than the common
cattle, and that they can be more
easily raised.
Col. Goodnight deserves great
praise for discovering this valu-
able breed of animals, destined,
in my judgment, to be of as
much value commercially as the
mule. This famous ranch and
these animals should form a part
of this Palo Duro forest reserve
and park.
Texas has no park or public
play ground or forest reserve,
and her Importance as state,
her vast resources, area and pop
ulation would justly entitle her
to have at least one Government
reservation within her borders.
Our younger sister, Oklahoma,
with less than one-fourth our
area, has two reservations, one
at Sulphur, and the other being
the big Wichita Mountain and
timber reservation. New Mex
leo has several large reserves
and no reason can be given why
Texas should not have one.
For natural beauty of scenery
these canyons on the head of
Red River Gn the famous Staked
Plains country cannot be ex-
celled.
There are many fine springs
(some of them being sulphur
springs) breaking out from the
cliffs and side canyons and form
a beautiful stream of pure good
water in the main canyon.
This stream is well stocked
with bass, trout and other fish.
1t has many waterfalls, grottoes
and shady, cozy hooks along its
course, some of the falls being
very high and present a land
scape unexcelled anywhere in
the Rocky Mountains in short,
there is no more beautiful and in
spring scenery anywhere in the
United States than these can
yons. Why should Texans spend
many hundreds of thousands of
dollars in Colorado in summer
and ignore our own wonderful
plains and towns near
the park?
May | not indulge in the fond
hope that all true Texans will
lend their aid in the effort to
create this park and thus great
Iy benefit the object of this as
sGclation in securing the perma-
nent improvement Of Red
River"
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The two following resolutions,
by Congressman
were adopted:
Resolved, That this conven-
ton heartily approves of and will
nd in the efforts of the Pan
handle Cattle Raisers' Associa-
ton to build packing houses at
Texas, or at any other
point on the watershed of Red
River; and we further pledge
to do everything in our
power to encourage the erection
Of other manufacturing plants
along or tributary to Red River.
so that the boats that we must
build and run on the river may
find as freight at all their land
ings the products of the factory
as well as the already large pro
ducts of the farm and ranch, 50
that the building and running Of
river boats will be made a pay
ing investment"
Resolved, That we favor the
passage of the bill now pending
in Congress to create a National
park and timber reserve in the
forming the head of Red
River, believing thatthe preseya-
tion Of the forests 10 the essen
tial to the improvement of Red
River.