The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10
BUFFALO REMNANT SAVED BY WOMAN Herd of Starving Calves Saved by Mrs. Goodnight A GOOD INVESTMENT Herd Now Worth Thousands of Dollars-Formed Basis of
 Endowment for Good
 night College

Goodnight college, located near CIaren- don, Tex. has the most unusual endow- ment fund in the world. writes Don H. Biggers in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram It is not fund of dollars and cents Neither is it fund derived from broad acres of prairie land like that set aside for the University of Texas by the wise fathers in earlier days.
 Goodnight college derives it's endow- ment fund from the sale of the increase of a bunch of shaggy animals-not cattle but true American native animals-buff- aloes. And these animals, the finest buffalo herd in the worlh, are the de- scendants of a few starving buffalo calves that were saved through the sympathy of kindly. motherly woman. That woman was Mrs Charles Goodnight wife of the poineer west Texas ranchman and the owner of the finest buffalo and cattle herd in the country.
 Mrs. Goodnight is modest retiring little woman. She doesn't like to talk about herself. Neither will she talk about her achievements, even though her fore sight and sympathy in saving the little starving buffalo calves has built up what ultimately will become a great ed- ucational instution. Col Goodnight like wise is modest and unassuming but the one thing in his life that he is more proud of than anything is Mrs Goodnight's founding of Goodnight According to Col Goodnight it came about this way:
 About 1878 the buffalo had been prac- tically exterminated and the hunters had abandoned the country. Occasionally one would find a small bunch of very wild buffaloes, but more frequently a few calves could be seen drifting and starving or being devoured by wolves. I was then ranching over on the Quitique, and was not really prepared to corral handle even buffalo calves, for even a buffalo calf is some proposition when it comes to handling him. But Mrs. Goodnight had fixed her mind on preserving the species and that settled it. As she willed, pro- vision had to be made, so we captured d few calves and put them with milk cows That is all that is necessary in the case of a buffalo calf. Even in its infancy, the buffalo is the embodiment of activity, per sistence and bullheadedness The COW may fight and kick and keep it up for hours, but that buffalo calf Is going to suck. So far all right, but when he gets bigger and begins to feel the wander lust he is mighty apt to go where he pleases That brought up the question of building pasture fence that would hold them. The very best posts that could be obtained and Is strands of barbed wire solved that feature of the case. When the buffalo pasture was built small bunch of buffaloes were trapped, they having taken winter shelter in the canyon But Mir Goodnight lad in mind the es- stablishment of college founded upon this buffalo herd from the very first. 1t was her work and her fancy and we just did what she said do about it. It used to appeal to me as an interesting theme but not until a few years ago did it ap- peal to me as great forceful reality.
 Herd Now Worth Thousands
 That buffalo herd and that college are that little woman's work. and it is my work only to the extent that I was will ing to do her bidding at the right time"
 That buffalo herd now numbers several hundred, and it's value is many thousands of dollars, and each year it's value .n- creases not only in numbers, but per cap- ita. It is one of the biggest indivudial endowments ever bestowed upon an ed- ucationa1 instution.
 The cattalo feature of this famous herd is the outgrowth of Col. Goodnights s cx- perimental tendencies. for he is born ex- perimenter and demonstrators He has bred up three of the most famous herds the west, ever knew, and has established of it's finest and most famous ranches, including his present property During recent months much has been said about the father of irrigation in the west, but Col. Goodnight was the first of them all Away back in the latter '70s he put an orchard and quite a little farm under Irrigation in the Qutique valley
 Several years ago the colonel concieved the idea of crossing the buffalo with black boiled or hornless cattle The result was the cattalo one of the most beautiful animals ever seen. It Is an animal cf large size and beautiful form and so coal black that in the sunshine it's coat glistens as though covered with drops of dew. It combines in fine proportion the very best qualities, even In the matter of improved color. of the cav and the buffalo, but in the matter of temperament It inclines most strongly to the buffalo It's motto seems to be Keep out of my road, most entrancing sight is this herd of buffaloes and cattalo when the calves are small. The cows are deep brown and shaggy or jet black or pond- erous; the calves deep red and graceful