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This land, consisting of 180,000 acres, was located 

 in the Panhandle country and in Oldham and Potter 

 counties. In 1888 Mr. Scott and Mr. Lee dissolved 

 partnership, Mr. Scott purchasing Mr. Lee 's interest 

 and continuing the ranch under the same name. At 

 Leavenworth,Kans.,he had a farm called Ridgewood 

 which he maintained for the breeding of fine cattle of 

 pure Hereford strains. The young bulls from that 

 farm were sent from time to time to the LS Eanch 

 and in that way, and by culling out the poorer of the 

 bulls on the ranch, the herd was gradually improved. 



Mr. Scott died in 1893 and left his property to his 

 widow Julia H. Scott. She left the management of 

 the ranch in the hands of her brother Charles N. 

 Whitman, a practical cattleman who was much im- 

 bued with the idea of breeding a finer grade of cattle. 

 They gradually acquired more land until they had 

 204,000 acres, all in fee simple and all fenced in. 

 The Ridgewood herd had in the meantime been en- 

 larged and improved by the constant purchase of 

 good registered animals. An increasing number of 

 the pedigree bulls were sent each year to the LS 

 Ranch either from the farm or by purchases, until in 

 more recent years nothing but purebred bulls were 

 used. In 1897 Mrs. Scott transferred one-half the 

 poperty to Charles N. Whitman and in 1899 she sold 

 him the remaining other half. Late in the year 1899 

 Mr. Whitman died and his widow, Mrs. Whitman, 

 continued the business until 1907, when she sold the 

 entire property to Edward F. Swift of Chicago. The 

 LS Ranch, recently divided and sold, was a breeding 



