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house. From the house to Pueblo it is about thirty 

 miles. From the eastern end of the ranch it is eighteen 

 miles to Pueblo, over a broad, splendid driving-road, 

 and fourteen miles to the Arkansas River, and the At- 

 chison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad along the river. 

 This is the great through route to the East, over which 

 most of the stock is shipped. 



"The following distinguished gentlemen are. familiar 

 with this ranch and the surrounding country. They 

 have visited it when the residence of Colonel Craig, a 

 well-known army officer, now retired, and will, no 

 doubt, vouch for what is here said relating to its favor- 

 able location and many great advantages : General "W. 

 T. Sherman, Major-General John Pope, Major-General 

 John M. Schofield, Inspector-General Marcy, U. S. A.; 

 Hon. John D. Perry, ex-President Kansas Pacific Rail- 

 road ; Hon. John P. Usher, ex-Secretary Interior ; 

 Senator Chaffee, and Representative Thomas M. Pat- 

 terson, of Colorado. 



"General Brisbin, your correspondent, writing from 

 the Plains in February last, seems to think that the 

 northern country furnishes superior advantages over 

 the southern on account of cooler climate, cattle being 

 less liable to disease. That would be true of New 

 Mexico, perhaps, but not of our ranch, situated as it 

 is between the two extremes. We have not known in 

 our six years' experience a single disease among our 

 cattle. Our loss in winter has not, so far as we can 

 determine, ever reached two per cent. even. It has 

 been so small as not to be reckoned in our estimates at 

 any time. But how is it at the north from Denver to 



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