1064 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



importance, however, to be given space at this point, 

 rather than be omitted entirely. 



This firm started business at Camp Supply in" 

 the Indian Territory in the fall of 1869 as post 

 traders at that military camp. Their consignment 

 of six or seven cars of merchandise from New York 

 was the first through freight which crossed the 

 bridge at Kansas City, shipment having been timed 

 to reach there just at the opening of the bridge, and 

 was sent through from New York to Hayes City 

 without breaking bulk.* The firm continued busi- 

 ness at Camp Supply and at other points estab- 

 lished and owned by them in the Territory, and at 

 Fort Elliott in the Panhandle of Texas — ^there being 

 four or five of these stations — until the year 1881, 

 when the co-partnership was dissolved and the prop- 

 erty divided. During this time in the Territory 

 there were two Indian wars, one being the final 

 round-up of the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas and 

 Comanches, upon their reservations at El Eeno and 

 Fort Sill, where the red men and their descendants 

 have ever since remained peaceably occupied and 

 intent upon the struggle for existence. 



Lee & Eeynolds commenced establishing a herd 

 of cattle about the year 1876, placing in service 

 purebred Shorthorn bulls purchased of Frederick 

 William Stone of Guelph, Ontario. This first herd 



*Mr. A. E. Reynolds, following up this shipment, In company 

 with one man similarly mounted, rqde a mule from Hayes City to 

 Camp Supply, 180 miles, sleeptnK on the ground en route, with the 

 saddle for a pillow and the blankets used under the saddle as 

 his bedding; and as there had been a blizzard across the country 

 at that time, he has a very vivid recollection that it was rather a 

 painful cold journey, and somewhat limited as to commissary. 



