The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 31, July 1927 - April, 1928 Page: 256
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
hands and seals this twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-two.
Cornelia Adair, by her
agent, Wm. McQuay
Charles Goodnight.
London, July 6, 1887.
In pursuance of this contract of date May 21, 1887, between
Cornelia Adair and Chas. Goodnight we the undersigned certify
to the tally receipt of six thousand nine hundred ninety-one
yearling cattle and eleven thousand six hundred twenty-five grown
cattle, and one hundred twenty-five horses and six mules.
In addition to this there are three hundred old cows, the prop-
erty of J. G. Adair, not included in this count nor received but
are to be dealt with as per instruction of Mr. Wm. McQuay.
For Mrs. Adair: Author J. Tisdall
For Goodnight and Moore: J. E. Farrington.
C. Goodnight
Goodnight and Moore
At the time of the division in 1887, Ledger "B" shows that the
J A Ranch owned 340,889 acres. The Tule Ranch contained
180,639 acres and the contract of sale states that there were
140,000. The sum total owned, then, was 660,528 acres. Taking
the data of the land leased and unleased which was given on the
map of the Tule Ranch as 274,154 acres and the leased and un-
leased land given on the map of the J A Ranch as 335,520 acres
and the 65,000 acres leased land in the Quitaque Ranch and
adding these to the 660,528 acres owned, it will give 1,335,202
acres grazed by the combined interests of Adair and Goodnight
at one time.
PART II
GROWTH OF THE HERD
The sixteen hundred head of cattle which Colonel Goodnight
brought from Colorado were sold to the firm of Adair and Good-
night at sixteen dollars per head and this small herd was the
nucleus from which the great J A herd sprang. The writer
asked Colonel Goodnight about the increase of the herd and this
is what he said:
Well, we started with the sixteen hundred head I brought from
Colorado, but the following year I bought three thousand head
from a man by the name of Runnels at sixteen dollars per head.256
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