The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-01
BIG FARMERS WHO OWN PRINCELY ESTATES

ing popular
In Mr.. Marshau's case the passion
for landed proprieJorship seems &c
have been cOngeniJal. Born with
out even a remote prospect OF ac-
curing any considerable quantity OF
it, inheriting nothing except sound
physical endowment and the pluck
to resist disbursement, mis- hrSt
venture was 5000 acre ranch IL
Texas which was almost concealed
from view with mortgages. MT.
Marshall declares that it was his eff
fort. to clear off the membranes
on this property that taught him how
to combine cattle, land and banking
so as to make the operation prohta-
BILE At any rate, he borrowed the
money to buy the cattle which finally
paid for the land. The outcome
was so satisfactory that he continued
! the practice until he became the
: greatest landed proprietor in Amer
/ lea, perhaps in the world. Banking,
/ cattle and land is still his winning
combination.
Virginia Ann King.
Five years ago all the newspapers
in American were making public all
that could be gathered concerning
Lady Mary Hamilton, only child and
heires8 of the premier duke Of Scot
land and the richest young woman in
the United Kingdom. At,that time
she was about to be married to the
Marquis Of Graham, heir of the
wealthy duke of MontrOse, and great
stress was put on the fact that Lady
Mary would be mistress of one Of the
most extensive landed estates in the
world when her husband-tO-be
should come into his dukedOm.
Now all the time that these &C
counts of Lady Mary's prospects as
a land owner were being paraded
before the world with dazzling insist
ence there was at least one woman
in America who was not overcome
by the story of the Scottish girls
landed pTe-eminence. The statement
that sometime in the uncertain fu
ture the bride-to-be would come into
possession of an estate comprising
100 900 acres seemed scarcely worth
exploiting to a member of the gen
tier sex who was already in undis- !
puted possession of many times that |
land area.
This American woman, born at |
Greenville, Texas, and still a resident |
of that prosperous agricultural coun-
~ town, is the owner of more than |
ten times as many acres as Lady |
airy will ever be able to call her |
own. Even were the deeply en-
trenched British law of primogeni-
ture to be abolished and she should
come in for the combined Hamilton |
and MOntTose estates she would still |
be the pOssessor of only about a |
as much real estate as be- |
longs to Virginia Ann King, the most |
picturesque of American million !
acre farmers.
Nor or Mrs. Kings broad acres
spread out in arid stretches that are
real estate only in name Lady
Mary Hamilton's estate is for the
greatest part of that variety describ-
ed by the glib London agent as 1.-The
grandeSt grouse shooting in the
F'ngdom, Sir Mrs. Kings million
9c'e farm is made up of dozens of
the most fertile and best cultivated
Nomesteads in Hunt, Jones and
counties, provided with
the most modern Of improvements
md TILED after the most up-to-date
methods
The late Capt Richard King was
Mississippi river pilot who freighted
goods for Cen Taylor during the
Mexican war and took as part pay
!Hent for his services an old Spanish
'Hnd giant on the frontier. the very
thing Mr.. Marshalls ancestor covet-
ca, but did not achieve. At first it
was a doubtful proposition, for when
capt. King went to claim possession
OF MS new estate he found it ten
ahted by outlaws and renagades of
every description. and he speedily
realized that he should have to fight
1or his rights or relinquish them.
lie had acquired a taste for advent
ure IN his river operations, and the
opportunity to conduct small war
on his own account appealed to him.
80 he recruited a band Of those who
were or the same way of thinking
ana proceeded to fight his way into
full possession of his domain.
lie succeeded in dislodging the
armed interlopers, and then began at
once to develop his property. The
grant as it stood originally was CON
slderably larger than the state of
Rhode Island, with a soil so deeply
fertile that no artificial enrichment
would be needed for more than a
generation. Long before his passing
TINS original state of Santa Gertrudis
mad reached a state of productive ex-
pansiveness that would have amazed
the hetress of the Hamiltons had she
been permitted to compare it with
the scanty returns from her moor
lands.
! Fortunately for the perpetuation
OF the millionaire farmer class the
administration of this princelv es-
tate fell into capable hands. Cant.
King had married a Texas girl who
had made farming on mammoth
scale her chief study in life, and at
his death she assumed the reins
without doubt as to her capacity
70 undertake the task.
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