Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-05-06
TEXAS RANCHES.
Some of Them Are as Big as "All Out
Doors"

The biggest land owner in the Cattle
Raisers' association is Don Luis Ter
razas of Chihuahua, Mexico His hold
ings are estimated at 100000 acres,
but. then, in that section of the country
man is merely stock farmer until he
has a range of 100000 acres or So
Right in Texas, however, there are some
ranges big enough for a frst-class base
ball diamond or a game of croquet.
Tom Waggoner is not yet out of land
remembrance. A 300,000-acre tract, val
ued at S6,000000 with the cattle on IT,
was given to his three children as a
Christmas remembrance. The 100000
acre tract which he split with his chill
dren to give them start in life did not
comprise all the land he owned then
and now. In fact, millions is the term
necessary in getting it all ill., but this
3OO,OOO-acre tract was one ranch, all
in one bunch, in Baylor, Knox and Will
| barger counties.
In the land retained by Mr.. Waggoner
is the GardO Blanco ranch of 100000
acres. The Zacaweista ranch, which was
i the center for the combined ranches, was
given to his daughter, Mrs. 4. b. Whar-
ton of Fort Worth, Tex. BY the gift
Mrs. Wharton becomes owner of ground
| enough for a tennis court, at least, its
| size being 100000 acres. It is hard te
realize how much 100000 acres com
| priseS. 1t is about 100 square miles, OF
as much as the state of Rhode Island.
: But there are other ranches with room
! to get a full breath on even in this age
| of congestion. There is Mrs. IL. NJ.
/ Kings ranch of million acres in south
j Texas. and the Matador, in the lower
! Panhandle, with 10000 acres. And
| even central west Texas, which now
| claims to be no longer a ranch but a
farming country, has several good sized
patches of range property. George and
! w. ID. Reynolds have about half Il mil
lion acres of ranch in that section of the
| state, and the Swensons have about 800
| 600 acres for cattle feeding still in Dick
ems county, while the M. s." ranch
| gives them about 100000 more if the
other should be overstocked.
The "Pitchfork' in the Panhandle is
another good sized piece of dirt, with
Its 100000 acres or mOre-a few acres
either way do not count in computing
| Texas ranches. And there's the Ed c.
! LaSater ranch of about 250,0O0 acres for
those seeking good sixed pieces of cattle
range.
The Morris ranch has about ZOO
acres of Midland and Morton county
! ground to it. {. c. Slaughter still has
100000 acres or so, after selling big
| tract, and the Kennedy ranch of $50. OOj
| acres only seems small because it adj
joins Mrs. Kings millionaire tract.
Probably the most famous Texas
ranch is the Syndicate. owned by the
Capitol Freehold Land q Development
company. The story of the grant of this
immense tract of land for the building of
the state capitol is well known DESPITE
J extensive sales made to homeseekers the
syndicate still has about 100000 acres
left for use when the rest of the world
gets overcrOwded.
Burke Burnett is another cattle rails
er with considerable land. The So
ranch is practically King county, and the
Carson county ranch, with its -Four
Six" cattle, is another good sized breath
ing space. Littlefield's Yellow House
ranch. the Swift ranch. the Black
Mountain ranch and the now famous
Taft ranch are other tracts Of cattle
grazing country that are famous not only
in Texas but all over the world