The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-04-23
lOl RANCH GREAT
Wild WEST SHOW

The magnitude of the 101 Ranch
Wild West show is in keeping with the
famous ranch from which it derives its
name and where it had it's origin and
which is the winter home of the show.
This ranch is the largest in the world
ond is owned by the Miller brothers,
who, with Edward Arlington, are the
owners of the great show. One may
be able to gain fair idea Of the vast
ness of this stupendous ranch from the
following figures:
The 101 ranch is situated in Bliss,
Oklahoma. In fact it is is Bliss itself.
Without the ranch there would be no
such station on the Santa Fe railroad
as Bliss. The ranch covers over 100,-
600 acres, which is larger than some
European principalities. It takes in
parts of three counties and is the sole
support of three townships. There are
nearly seven hundred homesteads on
this vast expanse of productive real
estate. The cattle grazing section is
enclosed with three hundred miles of
barb wire fencing to erect which cost
the ranch owners $4,000. Twenty
thousand acres are devoted to the cul-
tivation of corn, cotton, alfalfa, cane,
millet and other feed crops. One sec
tion Of this ranch is an orchard that is
productive of all the fruits that can
be grown in the mild climate of
Oklahoma. Over $4,000 head of cattle
Craze constantly over the immense
grazing ground while hundreds of
blooded horses make it their home and
multiply. Tt is also the home of the
largest herd of buffalo in the world
and the only pure blooded buffalo that
are not confined in the parks and zoos.
The 101 ranch boasts of its own week
ly paper, electric light and teleph me
system, necessitating the use of over
two hundred miles of wire to connect
the many scattered buildings on the
ranch. Miller brothers operate thei.
own blacksmith shop, harness shop,
slaughter and smoke houses, general
store and dairy. The name, "101
Ranch is derived from the brand
(" 10l' which is placed on the left hip
of all livestock
The 101 ranch is the supply s4or,
for the 101 Ranch Real Wild West
show. Tt was on this ranch that it Rad
its birth and the same atmosphere snat
permeates the ranch permeates the
show OF the hundreds of cowho vs.
and cowgirls that make the ranch thai,
home the very leaders are selected f.
the show on the road. The pick If
the stables and cattle enclosure alone
are chosen for the summer season and
no better opportunity could well be
imagined to see the western life of to-
day than is afforded by the 101 Ranc'
Wild West show, unless it would be by
actual journey to the west itseis
There are over 100 Indians with this
show and they are all the true Tndiars
as thy exist in the west and not
those secured from the eastern reser-
vations, whose value as true represen-
tatives of this noble American has
long since passed away by constant as
sociations with the white people with
who they have for years intermarried.
There is not one Indian with the show
who has ever previously been away
from the prairies and many of them
observe the white man IS methods of
city building for the first time. Many
of the cowboys and cowgirls this year,
for the first time in their lives, are en-
ioying their first experience m a
steam car. There is absolutely ln.n
ing of the east about the 101 Ranch
show excepting the country it shows
in. Not only is the opportunity given
to see the west as it really is todav but
events that led up to its present co..
dition are truthfully and most graph;-
cally depicted. The failure of other
wild west exhibitions, and there have
been many, has been due entirel, t..
the fact that they were organized in
the east by eastern showmen. whose
knowledge of the west, both past end
present, was confined to what thev
had read and not what they had ex-
perienced. This failure was not a,on
confined to the shows themselves
but was shared by their patron, who
expecting realism Were compelled to
be satisfied with the untruthfulness of
the artificial.
The 101 Ranch Real Wild West show
will be here May 4, and no show has
ever visited this section that has come
equally endorsed and so strongly
recommended as does this meritorious
aggregation.
Reservations for tickets may be
made at the Eagle drug store.
ED STOCK, JR'S, CONDITION
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