Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-05-13
ABILENE MEN MAKE A
MILLION DOLLAR LAND DEAL
J. R. Burton, @. 4. Estes and Others
Buy 100000 Acre Rancho

involving Sl,VVVJVVV oAN
100000 acres. 1t took nerve and
money but the proposition was SO
good that they will make handsome
profits. The company will have Off
ces at Kansas City and San Antonio
The San Antonio Express tells OF the
project:
In a million dollar land deal con-
summated yesterday afternoon at the
st. Anthony Hotel, former Senator }.
r. Burton of Abilene, Kan, and tie
head Of a syndicate of Kansas capt.
talists, acquired from l. T. Pryor oil
San Antonio the "77" ranch, COM
prising 100, 900 acres Of fertile land
in the valley Of the Nueces River IN
Zavala county, sorth of Uvalde. Sen
ator Burton and his associates will
begin operations at once for selling
the land in small tracts to actual
farmers.
The land lies in an irregular OBJ
long-shaped body beginning at the
south line of Uvalde county, from ten
to twelve miles south of the town OF
Uyalde and extending about sixteen
to eighteen miles further south. IL
is ten miles wide at its greatest width
and no part of it will be over five
miles from the Crystal City & UValde
Railroad, which will traverse it fCr
nearly eighteen miles.
The road which had already been
secured by M. Pryor and which has
been financed by Kansas City and St.
Louis capitalists, will be in operation
within six months from the beginning
of construction. Surveys for 1t nave
been made and the new owners OF
the land announced last night that
the raiload would be operating TINS
year. Its terminus on the south VIII
be Crystal City, forty-four miles south
from Uvalde.
Pryor, the new town planned by
the syndicate, will be located IN the
center of the tract on the new line oil
railroad, approximately twenty miles
south of Uvalde. AS the center OF
this tract which the syndicate will de-
velop to the utmost and with the In
dustries which the syndicate will give
it. the town is expected to make
place for itself on the map at a rate
which will touch even the fast OF
Southwest Texas records in city build
= ing.
Among the men associated Win
Senator Burton in the deal are u Il
Estes and Elmer Hoyt, Abilene, KAN
q. P. Taylor, Kansas City; James u
Grant, Junction City, Kan, and W. II
Parish. bankers and merchants oil
Kansas, who were all the the ST
Anthony hotel last night. Negotia'
tions for this tract have been under
vav for several months, and afteI
the men named had gone over the
proposition on the ground here the
deal was completed.
On the Cross-S ranch immediately
south of this tract are a NUMBER OF
fine flowing wells, but the pryor.
land has not been developed for pos
sible artesian flows, 1t is the inten'
tion of the new concern to sink deeI
wells at once in search of the arte'
sian stream.
hut without drop more Watei
than ia already definitely figured up
on from conservation Of water from
the Nueces river and from the natura
fall as collected in other streams a an
draws and from the shallow wen
now in operation the syndicate fig
ures that most of the land can D.
brought under system of irrigation
practically all the land is arabic AM
II all possesses the wonderful fertlht!
which has made possible the remark
able wealth from Southwest Texa
farms in onions. strawberries alfalfa
fruit and scores Of other things wnlcl
thrifty farmers are planting and reap
ing.
Title to the land in this tract come
down from two old Spanish grant
made while Texas was a colony o
spain. Under these grants the frs
owners had the right to pick what
ever they wanted from southwes
Texas and the Nueces river tract wa
their choice. Titles to all the Ian
have been confirmed in both stat
and Federal courts.
Mr.. Pryor bought the land over te
years ago from the Western UhlO
Reef Company Of New York.
Immediately after the purchase {
the land the parties interested con
pleted plans for a selling compan
which will put the tract Of land
small tracts of from forty to 10
acres into the hands Of actual farn