The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-24
LONG HORNS IN A STAMPEDE
zoo MILE FLIGHT OF HOME
SICK MEXICAN CATTLE.

LED b. q Big Whlie steer They swan M
ME Ssrande and made Thelr Way DacAG
60 Mountains Where TheS were
RaIaed-rhen Cowboys Get Them
ENcINAL. Tex. April 3O-Cattls rOpinG
10 becoming q lost art In this part Of the
ranch country. The dividing up % the
big grazing tracts into farms n crowding
the old lime cowboys out o. business.
Except during tho branding season there
10 very little roping Tn be done upon theso
ranches.
Even this use Of the lariat In tame WORK
a. compared with the rOping Of the former
| days when tho free range vas stocked with
long horn cattle. The long horns have
passed out % existence and In their place
are tho tams breeds that submit 20 the
roping process without resistance. IL
took an expert thrower Of the lartat. .
trained bronco and q fearless rider to
hold one Of the long horns. The thin
aAnked. long legged long horn could out
run the average horse and sometimes one
% the animals would have Ia be chased
many miles before it could be brought
back TO the herd.
/ ~
we're here the other day loading cattle
for shipment were discussing the passing
81 the long horn when Jim HOlsey. who
has been with the Dull Ranch outfit for a
quarter uf q century. told OF . chase that
he and ak other cowboys had after a
bunch OF genuine -do,ies' in the early
days.
Not many Of the RANCHES in this section
were fenced in those days. he said. we
had about thirty thousand sSTes fenced.
but the remainder Of the ranch was
| open range.
1t 10 a well known fact that horses.
dogs. cats and perhaps some other kinds
OF animals travel by instinct, and will
return 70 the place where they were raised
when carried many miles away. I didn't
know that this was also true Of cattle until
after went with the Dull outfit.
One spring our range was understocked.
| and. an the prospects FOR grass seemed To
he good. Tod Hall went down into Mexico
and bought q big bunch OF long horns.
Thoee cattle were typical Mexican Rad
runners. Hall found them on a ranch
over in the Santa Rosa Mountains. He
drove them to MoncloVa and shipped
them by rail Ca san Antonio. and thence
down To the ranch. | had occasion after
ward to figure out how far the cattle had
travelled 10y rail. and IL came close 90 four
hundred miles. From the ranch in q
direct line across the country TO their old
grazing ground in Mexico was about
Swo hundred miles.
Well, We got them unloaded and out
to the ranch. hut IL was no easy job. There
~ero aDou' nv nucd neau ineu
long trip ny rail had not tarned them a Dat
and they we're ready to run or fight at
the drop of a hat.
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ihey Iong~u LOT 'he mountains Where hey
Wers raised. They were restless all the
time. and I don't know how many STAIN
,,..l.s ,h.v led "A in the f,ru, few dAvs after
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g"ther
he c"niouhuen n"p,e~ VII s,and
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se' theih !" ni- NJ 'N'r ~ ~ U'~' vi VA"
heyni th- 49, -Ni . ols % 49,.
het" a. the uIoupIS. 'ney wnunh
stay stu long enough 70 eat the
grass They we're S"n,,nnSlly looking
,nNarh we've anu ". h.S ne
leader was Ss ra~boned animal, white
a. snow WIN horns th-' must nave
in"asur'~i seven ie~t IrHh up o mp.
he wanted hherN ana Nahted u TAD.
Ihe hig getaway nscurf'd one night
about . CLOGS. We th"ught We nan the
herd settled down. when saw mat tag
white animal &c, 70 MS t~et ana give one
~ IN" mrrt SOULFUL pehoNS ever heard
u seein"f tn he aRnaL Tor oil the animals
JumUed Ia their feet instantly and with a
TWIST u their tails th"y we're IN. p~ll-
mel. taking the native longhorns with
them.
We were three days rounding mp the
bulk of that herd ] never saw such a
scattering u cattle in my life. Instead
Of Keeping together IN n more oT less Snlid
holy they went ~ he four winds ia spite
Of all our efDrtS 20 keep them together
We picked up lunches ~ them IN the
mesquite thickets. here and there. until
finally We had all tut about one hundred
counted in The missing hundred he
lonR~d to that MEXICAN herd. ard among
them was the 'ag white steer that led ~
IN the stanDeSie
II don't know hut the e~rape ~ them
M"yicans In a good radiance the bn~s
said but I never saw a COW vet that could
get the hest ~ me II was n young Teller
like Jim Hnlsey there. I'd go after them
cattle and bring EN- back II IL took me
ten VeerS
4 didn't like his banter. and Just to
show that l was game ! up and said In