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riveis uf Texas, 1 he climato is singularly equable, mild imd healthy, throughout lhe year. Cotton can Ik gru«.i as far north us Port ^uraner, Uwy snows au l storm# arc unknown and tLe winter rnn^c can always be dspmlml on. J he grttu* care* \u natural hay nu the ground. Iho home rancho is at llnwj'ic Grande, fifty miles he low Port Sumner. At thU |lt;oiiH agmiral •apply store i# kf*i t, bui’ding* and large corrals coindraclfd, At e*t»v« nit/it poicd* up and down the river from the homo rancho, are secondary stations, or **cow campt, which the herders occupy as torn-parity homes. Not loss than a hundred men, ,4cow boys,” are crm-taiiCy employed in taking can? of the Cattle. Thi ospenic* of Mr. Cbiittnt, fur hones, during the last ten years hare tn-en f«y Urge, owing to losivs from Indian raids, At one time, aftrr Ml Indian foray, only tin h«ad of hones were left on the ranch*. Thu sur-eg-** captured at that thn** soma three or four hundr.d horses- 7 be m» n had to h* rd afoot nuti! other st^ck could Ik* purrha»rd.I he hones have been a variable rpmntlty, ringing from a rfoyr-n !• n thuuaud load This year, buacvrr, the Indians burr •Dusually quiet; not a single depredation to record. Should the policy which Mnrkenti# is nenr pursuing toward the Plains Indus*. I* Motioned, it in not probable that th«*y , will ever again prove troublesome on the . Pecos. I
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Las Vegas Gazette
Las Vegas, New Mexico, US
Sat, Nov 27, 1875
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