Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-04
BIZ FREDERICK
J. HASKN

N. Camden. a West Virginia coal mine
owner. who married Miss Susan Hart
of Spring Hill, an estate upon which
the Hart family had lived since the
Indians were driven from the soil by
Colonel Nathaniel Hart and other pic
neers.
In this same neighborhood-in which
the Harpers developed world renowned
horses while living in a plain old-fash-
Toned farmhouse-live the Alexanders
upon large estates inherited from an
Englishman of that name who forsook
England to live in Kentucky and aban-
doned a title to become a Kentucky
gentleman, retaining a large income
from English mines. and adding to his
fortune by wise investments in Chicago
real estate.
To mention Bluegrass estates old
and new, each of which is worth a
days visit, would be to write a guide
book of this unique region. Among
the new ones, by the way, is Xalpa,
a thoroughbred farm, whose owner, a
Kentuckian, went forth to seek his
fortune and found it in oil in Mexico.
He imported a small army of Mexican
laborers to beautify his estate with
roads and lakes and to build around it
a great stone wall such as a feudal
| IuIu VI DnkIdht hhfC AdltNINo III
the Middle Ages.
Not all oil the handsome breeding
plants one sees in driving through the
Bluegrass are nurseries of thorough
bred horses. For example, near the
| Camden farm is a breeding plant at
| which Colonel r. III. Taylor, Jr.. a vet
eran distiller, beginning livestock rails
ing when he was so years old, assem-
bled what is declared TO be the largest
and most select herd of Hereford cat
tie ever owned by one man. He chose
some of his early bulls and cows from
the herds of the king at Windsor castle,
but cattle journals give him high credit
as an improver of the breed. He has
sold premium winners at prices almost
Incredible to persons unfamiliar with
the possibilities in the Hereford breed
ing industry.
Colonel Taylor, who is not far beyond
30 today, and looks 20, still is as much
interested in cattle AS the late James
3. Haggin of Green Hills was in horses
when he was famous as the owner OF
the largest number of thoroughbred
mares the world had seen under one
ownership.
High Prices for Hogs
Across the pike from the Taylor cat
tie farm two brothers whose fathers
life ambition was to win the Ken
lucky derby, transformed a thorough
bred farm into a hog farm and began
what they termed a more constructive
industry. Animals at prices as high
as $1,000 sold from the home of The
red hog have rewarded their efforts
Their contention is that the soil and
! limestone water which produce famou:
horses are just as potent factors IL
producing fine hogs.
The limestone water of central Ken
lucky, which is said TO have been /;
controlling factor in making the Bour
bon whisky of this state excellent il
the days of licensed distilling. has
spectacular manifestation at George
town. one of the minor cities of tn
Bluegrass region, whose water suppl.
comes solely from a spring that gushe'
from beneath a ledge in a stream larg'
enough to supply several Centers o
population as large as the one it serves
The big spring. almost duplicated a
Spring Station in Woodford county, /
visited by many travellers junketini
through the section.
A leisurely inspection - the man.
excellent examples Of colfFial and earl
3 p~ost-coIonial domestic architecture
which may be seen in Woodford. Scott
Bourbon. Fayette, Mason. Madison
Clark, Mercer. Boyle and other coun
:, ties may be preferred 10 trotting abou
stock farms at the heels of obligin.
/ hosts who extend a true Kentucky wei
!, come. These old homes. looking dow
!, long u from groves of oak an
} maple, bespeak the delight Of the Ken
= lucky planter of the slaveholding perio
in seclusion. Many of the privat
. roads are so long that their upkee
; in these days of automobiles entail
considerable expense and not ever
great house with n pillared front
:, supplied with half the number of serv
2 ants it had in the days when the slav
quarters were filled with free labol
In the main. however, life seems I
I run in it's old agreeable channels i
Kentucky. At least. that is the impres
sion that is made upon a traveller VIII
: is content with glimpses of homestead
as he spins along the road.
The greatest, and the saddest, chang
> time has wrought in this region is tn
destruction of trees for farming, pal
ticularly tobacco planting. There ar
far fewer woods pastures than ther
were years ago, Many of the remain
r ing forest trees are dying at the TOT
because apparently demonstration les'