The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-10-04

VIII one tfftl1 on tIItl Sue Oh
the tracks of the Can Antonio and
Arkansas Pass railroad which traverses
the estate. Corn, milo maize. Kaffir
corn, sorghum cane, COW bean and
other fields will take up large areas.
Truck will be grown in great quaint
ties. Nevertheless the big pastures of
the property will not be narrowed
down to any extent. These are now di-
yided into $4,000 to 10000 acre ranges
and support over $4,000 head of cat
tie and many thousand of smaller ami
mails such as sheep, goats. hogs and
all sort Of fowl. The packery now in
course of erection will he kept busy
taking care of these. The Taft prop
erty also owns miles upon miles of
beach front and the finest fisheries
along the coast. The GOLD storage
plant now in construction will also aid
in the development of the sea food in
dustry.
Estter Prices.
1t may he mentioned here that it
has been claimed recently that the
meat products of the Taft packery are
principally intended for the use of the
forces digging the Panama canal. This
would mean the packing and shipping
of from 800 TO 400 head of cattle
Gay. and a government contract would
be necessary. There is no doubt. how
ever. that Charles =. Taft is not count
ing on such n contract. The products
of his packery are needed locally and
can be disposed of at better prices
than the government would pay.
Taft. Texas. was the only town in
the state that went soiidly republican
during the last presidential campaign.
Manager Green on the evening of cleo
ton day wired to Big Bill: Taft is
for Taft" Taft now proposes to show
Big Pill the time of his life. In one
nj the pastures. comprising some IS
600 acres. not a gun has been heard i'm
Ii years. In this the much adver-
tised Taft hunt viii take place. Large
numbers of deer. jack rabbits. wild
cats. coyotes. and millions of quail
are To be found i'm this pasture The
most interesting part Of the hunt. no
doubt. will be the chase Of the wild or
chaparral cat. This cat is about four
times the size of the house cat and an
. ugly customer when eornered. One
/ of them is a match for the best dog,
except he has been trained To heeoma
cat hound. Among the fine pack
Of hunters on the Taft ranch there
! are three car hounds. the leader Of
| them being n big raw honed fellow.
! Jim Buster. who has more eats and
! coyotes Ia his credit than any other
! dog in Texas. The best time to hunt
eats and coyotes in at night and the
second night of the presidents stay
ut the ranch will he given over Ia this
exciting sport. How Big Bill will fare
/ tearing through the mesquite tree
full Of sharp thorns. and thickets of
cactus with spines even sharper. is
something the cowboys on the Taft
ranch are specializing on very much.
| Most of them have an exaggerated
/ idea of the presidents physical make
! up.
We are going to have an auction
| sale of sway-hack horses after the
president has gone" said one Of the
+ facetiousiy. Il am glad any way that
+ for the time being am not IA pony
These chairs said Mr.. Green,
pointing To several massive wood af-
fairs, look big enough to hold almost
any man. At least they are broad
/ enough Tut nave my DOUBTS II they
are strong enough 10 bear his weight"
He has bought new ones since then
/ Chairs with a stress capacity of
+ hundred weight per- square inch.
No Elephant.
Carpenters who recently built n
hathhause n the end of the pier that
runs from the Taft villa into the bay.
used timbers three times as strong as
! they would ordinarily. What is more.
] they wanted IL make the door nine feet
high and five feet wide. IL took all
/ of Mr.. Green's power of persuasion to
! convince them of the fact that a man
could be somewhat fleshy and still not
j be baby elephant.
PestGes the hunt Mr.. Taft will play
golf on the largest link To be found.
! These are located 1T La Quinta and
were laid out by the Texas champion
of the game Robert J. Gnnnerly Of
Austin and Frank Lewis of San An
! tonic. a well known expert with the
mashie and tee In laying out the
/ course the nine holes we've SD ar
RANGED as to keep the president