806 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



Making Good in Old Mexico. — ^E. K. Warren & 

 Son, proprietors of the IT — brand, own land and cat- 

 tle roughly valued at around $2,750,000, including 

 three ranches covering approximately 900,000 acres 

 of land and carrying on an average 25,000 head of 

 cattle. Their Ojitos Ranch, which is situated in 

 northern Chihuahua in Old Mexico, was formerly 

 owned by Lord Delaval Beresford, a brother of the 

 English Admiral, Lord Charles Beresford, and is 

 a noted property, all under fence with fine improve- 

 ments, good springs and windmills. The Messrs. 

 Warren bought it in 1909. They also own tiie Pala- 

 tada Ranch which joins the Ojitos, and it is also well 

 equipped. 



At the time of the purchase of the Ojitos the War- 

 rens sent down 250 Hereford bulls and 350 head of 

 purebred cows from their ranch at Bovina, Tex. 

 They crossed the bulls upon cows purchased in Mex- 

 ico with gratifying results, as is evidenced by the 

 fact that for three years past they have sold their 

 two-year-old steers at Amarillo at $44 per head, and 

 their three-year-olds at $62.50, the latter being 

 shipped from their Mule Shoe Ranch at Bovina. 

 This bunch of cattle went to the sugar beet mills in 

 Colorado in the fall of 1913 at $62.50 for the threes, 

 which was near the top price for plains cattle at 

 that date. They are said to mate a wonderful 

 growth when taken on the plains as yearlings. The 

 Warrens ship all their steers and 75 per cent of 

 their yearling heifers to the plains each year, keep- 

 ing the other 25 per cent on the Ojitos Ranch for 



