The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-03-09
AbNER WILSON |S SLATED AGAIN FOR
 PRESIDENT
Southwestern CattIemen's Association in Session in Fl Paso This Week is Big Success-Next Meeting Place at Roswell.

A number of local cattlemen have been in Fl Paso this week attending the annual meeting of the Southwest ern Cattlemen's Association which held it's opening session in the Pass City on Tuesday morning.
 Among those who left Sunday morn ing were J. H. T. Cosper, John Cos per, Frank Hodges and junior memb- CTS of the Cosper family from the Blue Or Monday morning party outgoing consisted of Wade Hampton, J. V. Martin, s. c. Swift, Dud Elrage, A. R. Lynch, J Winders, Karl Schade and others.
 Mr A. T. Wilson, President of the Southwestern Association, and Gener- ai Manager of the Double Circle ranch, left on Saturday morning to be present at a meeting of the executive commit tee on Monday. MT. Wilson opened the convention Tuesday with an an- nual address and according to the newspapers of Fl Paso the popular manager of the Double Circle is slated for reelection as president for the year 1917-1S.
 The indications are, as the conven- ton. draws to close, that the next convention will be held at Roswell, N. M.
 In news article following the ar- rival of MT. Wilson in Fl Paso the Times printed the following:
 "Abner T. Wilson, president of the Panhandle and Southwestern Stock mems association, is one of the big cattlemen of the southwest. He is manager and leading stockholder of Ga%3 las been manager for the past nine years. The company's headquarters is at Eagle Creek, Arizona, about 35 city being his postoffice and trading point. He is typical western stock man and has lived in the west for many years. His home is at Eagle Creek. For sixteen years he was as- sociated with the Drums, in Oklahoma in the cattle business before coming west. The ranch of the Double Cir cIe Cattle company is one of the most extensive in the southwest, extending over the forest regions of parts of Greenlee, Graham and Apache coun- ties in eastern Arizona and covering portions of the San Carlos and Apache Indian reservations, covering an area 30 miles wide and 40 miles long. It is by all odds the finest range and ranch property in the state of Ari- zona. The entire range is covered with a 1uxuriant growth of grass and forests of live oak, pine, pinon, and has numerous springs and mountain streams throughout the vast estate. It's altitude and latitude are such as to make it the ideal grazing country of the west, making the climate cool in summer and mild in winter.
 ''On this great domain are 16,000 blooded cattle. Durhams and Here fcrds, bred from the best bulls ever brought to Arizona originally by Jose ph H. Hampson, the famous railroad Santa Fe and Mexican Central and last fall in the east. To give some idea of the magnitude of this con- pany's business, it may be stated that it takes six weeks each year to round up and brand the calves alone. Three carloads of rock salt are brought to tho ranch every year, hauled on the backs of pack animals. Originally, the ranch was devoted to sheep rais- ing, but when Joe Hampson bought it he converted the ranch into cattle ranch and stocked it with blooded Durhams and Herefords. About nine years ago Hampson sold a half inter- est to MT. Wilson and Major Drum, of Kansas City.
 In 1909 the buyers organized the Double Circle Cattle company, and three years afterward they bought out the remaining half interest of the Hampson estate. Last March MT. Wilson sold half of his interest and Major Drum sold all of his interests in the business to Landergin Brothers of Amarillo, Texas; the Crocker Bro thers, of Bazaar, Kan; Houx Broth CTS of Kansas City, and M. l.. Mo Cure, of Kansas City, so that at pres ent there are eight individual owners in the Double Circle Cattle company, Mir Wilson still owning one-eighth of this vast business"