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cage. They were plaoe'd on sale on Mr. Rhome's 

 ranch in charge of William Powell. A good many 

 of these died of the fever, but this was nevertheless 

 the source of a lot of good blood scattered through- 

 out different parts of the Texas range country. In 

 1888 Mr. Rhome and Mr. Powell formed a partner- 

 ship, buying some of the Henry cattle and adding 

 to these a lot belonging to Mr. Powell brought in 

 from Beecher. They bought a son of old Fowler 

 and two bulls from Thomas Clark for breeding pur- 

 poses. In 1890 Rhome & Powell bought the F. M. 

 Houts herd numbering about 50 head. The firm at 

 this time owned about 200 head. On the dissolution 

 of the partnership Mr. Powell established his head- 

 quarters at Channing, Tex., at which place he is 

 at this writing still living. 



Reynolds Cattle Co. — This is another one of the 

 big Texas cattle companies. It has holdings at the 

 present time of an estimated value of about $2,500,- 

 000. Its operations go back to the very beginnings 

 of cattle ranching in the southwest. This com- 

 pany had its first Hereford bulls from T. L. Miller 

 around 1876, the cows at the time being mainly of 

 the ordinary north Texas type. The Reynolds peo- 

 ple were among the first to take the Hereford blood 

 into Texas. The company now has about 130,000 

 acres of broken, hilly, but well watered land in 

 Shackelford and Throckmorton counties on which 

 about 8,000 cattle have been maintained in recent 

 years. It also has 300,000 acres owned and leased in 

 Jeff Davis county, carrying about 12,000 cattle. The 



