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Colorado, Leon, Brazos, Trinity, Sabine, and Red 

 Rivers. Mr. John Hitson had 50,000 head of cattle 

 on a ranch in Pinto County, on the Brazos. He drove 

 10,000 head North annually, and employed 300 saddle- 

 horses and 50 herders to take care of his cattle. 

 Twenty years ago he was working by the day on a 

 Texas farm. John Chisholm had 30,000 head ; Mr. 

 Parks, 20,000; James Brown, 15,000; Martin Chil- 

 ders, 10,000; Robert Sloan, 12,000; Mr. Coleman, 

 12,000; Charles Rivers, 10,000; and many others 

 from 8000 to 20,000 head. These were some of the 

 cattle-princes of Texas. Of the 1000 men who owned 

 3,000,000 head of cattle, it is said not one hundred 

 commenced with large means. Texas is fast becoming 

 an agricultural State, and in a few years more most of 

 the great herds there will be transferred to the Plains 

 of the West, the natural grazing-grounds of the nation. 

 Among the great drivers North are John Hitson, 

 who brings up from Texas to the Plattes every year 

 7000 to 8000 head; John Chisholm, 6000; James 

 Patterson, 8000 ; George F. Reynolds, 5000 ; Charles 

 Goodnight, 5000 ; John Anderson, 3000 ; W. P. 

 Black, 2000 ; C. C. Campbell, 3000 ; Robert White, 

 2000 ; Samuel Goldstone, 2000 ; Henry Martin, 2000 ; 

 and many others from 1000 to 4000 head. The whole 

 number of cattle driven North from Texas annually 

 cannot be less than 100,000 to f 50,000. The superior 

 advantages of the Northern climate over the South for 

 cattle has become so generally known as to need no 

 comment. I will not, therefore, give my own opinion, 

 but those of men more competent to judge. 



