Ranch tour highlights greenest rangeland near Marathon
Hallie Stillwell reports on the Highland Hereford Breeders Association selection tour southeast of Marathon. Rain and lush rangeland blessed the area with bulls and heifers for an upcoming November sale, while showers and scattered rains touched ranches from Fort Davis to Alpine.
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Gage Ranches
Marathon
Highland Hereford Breeders Association
Gage Holland
Fort Davis
Alpine
Frank Newsom
A. R. Ponton
Ted Gray
Weston Ranches
Zenas Decie
Roark Ranch
S. E. Brewster
Stillwell Ranch
Fort Davis Notes and Local Transfers Highlight Pecos Rodeo
Dr Otto Struve spoke at the Mile High club praising discipline and knowledge. Davis Mountains highway bids were rejected as too high and will be built by state forces. Fort Davis marked the 50th anniversary of the frontier post evacuation with troops marching to Marfa. Fort Davis Weekly Dispatch changed hands, with E E Smith taking over editorial duties. W G Patton bought the 163 acre Veazey farm, first land sale in Jeff Davis County via FSA. In Pecos roping, Jim Espy won by roping 20 calves in 503.1 seconds, defeating Preston Fowlkes as his horse stumbled.
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Avatanene
Russia
Mile High
Otto Struve
McDonald Observatory
Yerkes Observatory
Williams Bay
Wis
Kharkov
Ukraine
The
State Highway Commission
Davis Mountains
W. G. Patton
Fort Davis
J. L. Veazey
Jeff Davis County
Pecos
Jim Espy
Preston Fowlkes
Fort Davis Hints At Summer Visitors And NYA Figures
Fort Davis hosts many visitors with 25 000 Texas youths training under the National Youth Administration as Tyrone Kelly notes from Austin. Mrs Jack McNamara joined her husband after a six day Gulf voyage to the Zone. A 17th century Silesian law barred marriage to a farm worker who could not spin.
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Hicks Grays
Jack McNamara
Panama
National Youth Administration
Tyrone Kelly
Fort Davis
State
NYA
Austin
Kelly
W. S. Miller
Silesia
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Marfa
Arthur N. Alkire
E. E. Smith
Cal
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Soa
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Kimbell
Holland
Fowlkest
Gulf of Mexico
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LA Scala
Universal
Handy
Hannah de Luxe
Universal Salonette
America
Gladiator
GVW
Jeep
Kaiser Jeep Corporation
Webb Brothers
E. San Antonio
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