The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
CATTLE RANGES
ARE GOING IN
TEXAS
Promoters Busy With Realty
Deals Where Once Were
Only Lowing Herds
BY s. J. X. HUGHES,
international News Service.

NJ INTERNATIONAL NEWS 5eGWAcGs
FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 81.
The birth of new dawn.-the
breath Of a new day sweeping be.
for it the mighty hordes Of dream
Ing homeseekers, trampling beneath
feet and wheels the vast spaces Of
Westerns Texas, tender In the mem.
Dries Of cattlemen--transplanting
The romance Of the Southern plains
country into the cold calculation of
sommerciaIism
Passing IL another land-a para.
disc of fact and fiction--and with
1t the shattered hopes of hundreds
Of pioneer cattlemen.
The surrender Of the majestic
range steer to the milk.pen calf,
and the sacrifice of the noble
white faced Hereford. bowling before
the winning Jerseys and Elol.
steins-the hated breeds OF the old
time cowman--have ushered IN this
new day.
Promoters Busy.
And the great ranges of the
plains. where once a man, not SO
long ago might wander for days
In solitude, are rapidly falling he
meath the onslaught of the real
estate expert and the pitiful resig-
nation Of the cattleman.
"A thousand acres q day will
drive the cattleman away cllanI
the promoters Of these gigantic
land sales, who, In a period OF
thirty days, have thrown 2,U00, 100
acres of range land open to the
adding to the 100000 acres that
had already been cast on the mar
ket.
Within ten days during the past
month $4,000 acres, a portion OF
the famous Spade ranch, went up
on. the block, subdivided and Of
fered to the investor for a mere
pitance down and so much a
month"
| 1t was only small portion CT
the millions of acres that are be-
ing prepared for the newcomer and
his family.
Ranches Going.
Ranches--not only in the historic
Panhandle. but throughout Texas
that in other days prospered under
the grazing of thousands of the
almost extinct angular Texas steer
and the more popular baId-faced
Hereford, have also gone under the
knife"
Range lands stretching forth into
4 millions of acres-ranches where
great cities OF the nation could be
sub-planted and lost in the seeming.
| lY endless miles OF gramma grass
/ and YaACnItff0--urA $od SO afco =.
giving way to the planter and his
cotton, the farmer and his grain
and the breeder, with his choice
blooded livestock and dairy equip.
ment.
Only a meagre few of the great
ranches of the past remain--and
they, too, are slated for the city
reaItor and his investment program.
From throughout the nation and
the far corners of the earth the
homeseekers pour over the plains,
taking up their farming tracts OF
not less than 100 acres, erecting
serviceable shacks. settling back ap.
parently to stay.
During the year subsequent to
the Western Texas chamber Of com
merce's extensive advertising cam.
I paign more than half a million let.
/ tiers Of inquiry from prospective
settlers have been answered, and ii
Is estimated half Of this number
have found satisfaction in leaving
their homes of the North and Easj
for this new venture.
] Reclamation Planned.
Huge reclamation projects are
daily in the fold, transforming once
arid stretches of wild wristbands into
ferticle farming lands--a veritable
mecca of agriculture.
In all modes of travel the new
Corners arrive, from the land broker
IN his private Pullman, to the set
tier in his rafting automobile. piled
high with his worldly possessions
Even a few of the famed Covered
wagons" reminiscent of another
day, appear.
New towns are springing ur
overnight; and counties, where hut
a few short months ago thers
would not have been sufficient in.
habitants to empanel a jury. are
loudly Haunting treir facilities "a
the world through their Chambers
Of commerce and enthusiastic civic
organizations.