698 A BISTORT OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Shorthorn sales. This was the first auction sale of 

 Herefords held at Kansas City, and the first west 

 of the Mississippi River. Nine of these bulls were 

 sold to Towers & Gudgell, a range outfit in which 

 Mr. Gudgell was interested, for use on their herd 

 of the OX brand on the Cimmaron River in what 

 was then known as "No Man's Land," now Beaver 

 Co., Okla. At the same auction sale at Kansas City 

 one bull was bought by Col. Driskill, at that time 

 one of the leading cattle growers of Texas, who was 

 also buying Shorthorns at the Hamilton sale. 



About this same date Charles Gudgell sold the bull 

 Picture 1403 to Jones Bros., Las Animas, Colo.j for 

 $1,000. This bull had been bought from F, W. Stone, 

 Guelph, Canada. About the same time J. W. 

 Prowers took some Herefords to his ranch near Las 

 Animas. 



The Hawes and Campbell Herds.— Major W. E. 

 Campbell of Caldwell, Kans., and J. S. Hawes of 

 Colony, Kans., established large and excellent herds 

 of purebred Herefords, which were drawn upon 

 heavily, not only by those founding new purebred 

 herds in the Missouri River region, but also by 

 ranchmen further west. Mr. Hawes had been 

 breeding Herefords for a number of years at South 

 Vassalboro, Me., and in the fall of 1881 moved his 

 entire herd of about 100 head to his Kansas farm, 

 comprising at that time some 1,200 acres. During 

 the height of the great demand for the "white faces" 

 Mr. Hawes ran his herd up to more than 300 head 

 of well bred pedigree cattle. It was noted for some 



