The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-16


From what were COW pastures only
tnres years ago. II looks to its 81.
LOUIS press agents to make It clear
that II also holds the worlds record
In getting first to market with early
watermelons. The point Is made on
their authority, with no reservation
except in favor of other Texas COW
pastures with records OF the same kind
and other publicity experts TO be
heard from later.
The point at any rate. Is that cab.
page and all other freight which can
De expected out OF the productive soil
OF Iexas is now being rushed con-
stantly north TO market from what
was once a country famed for its COW
pastures In general and especially for
the II. VI. King ranch This Is said
to be the largest in Texas or the
world. 1t was founded by Mr.. King
and afterwards increased by his widow
ana her manager, r. J. Kleebrrg. to a
maximum stated as l.2S0,OO0 acres.
Mrs. King has not cut up the ranch.
But 1t Is said that after refusing SIS
an acre for II in a body, she has fallen
in with the general movement for new
development and has been selling off
small tracts for homes as settlers
reach the county. ready to locate on
small farms around the ranch The
original cost of the land in the King
ranch is given as from l2h cents,
or Texas bit to 30 cents an acre.
All the great Cow pastures" will
not disappear this year or soon The
great King ranch, the Taft ranch and
Others will continue to be celebrated.
But as In the case Of the King
ranch now, as the new era in Texas
Increases the price of land because
farms multiply around them, land
bought for a bit an acre for ranches
will be cut off from the original COW
pasture and sold for farms, whose in
crease viii put up land values and all
other values.
Everyone who knows Texas knows
that an original COW pasture had no
cows on 1t. 1t mad steers" male and
female all milkless because the orig
inal cowboy who "whooped them up"
In roundups for branding or mar
ketlng had no use for milk, as n rule.
under original conditions.
In the last II years ne has some
times descended to condensed milk.
cut out Of a can, with thousands OF
female steers" in sight, punched"
usually, but with 10 acres of COW
pastures around them per COW or
steer. The difference between the new
era and the old Is that a modern COW
pasture now has cows on II and that
they give milk. In this way. we can
get now for The first time, in 1905, In
exact official figures, an idea of the
first difference the new era makes as
far as II has gone.
The number OF cows in Texas
whic: give milk this years is officially
reported at l12600O, worth an aver
age Of S27 each. while cows which are
merely female steers" are worth an
average Of only sl3 each In Janu-
airy, year before last, Texas had only
1922 milk COWS.
Since then it has cut down the
number OF its steers OF both 5eves
from S,23G.Ooo to 1865 900 II has
only S99,GSi.OO0 Invested in steers or
range cattle now. agains 800 $50 900
year before last But in this short
time II has increased its investment
IN milk cows from $24,j79,O0 to $50.
4O2 900 of horses from $40 .i55 900 to
S9J, 2S2 900, and OF mules from $751;
10000 to SG3,9SiO0O.
Increasing the investment IN farm
animals over $2j,0O0,O0O while the in
vestnent in steers" Is being CIT
down $1,000 900 is good business in
Texas for This years boom, when
Texas still has L. out Of every hun
dred OF the beef cattle Of the entire
United States. These items OF its
gain only suggest the total gain. as
they give an exact showing in one
way of what follows the cutting the
great ranches in hundreds of ways.
The St. Louis office which has a
telephone map Of Texas on one wall
and a railroad map on the opposite
wall shows thai the state becomes
covered more and more with a net
work Of telephone and railway mile
age, following these changes. Elec-
trio, intcrurban roads follow behind
this growth. stlll a. distance, bur
they are following IL
The milk COW and the mule, while
not III for the whoopee stage of prog
ross across the "boundless prairie"
appear in such increases as tohse
.t,y. opt, a hon thpy ara hpfug fOI-