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PAGE 4, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, OCT. 23, 1992
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DELL CITY, TEXAS
offer. Zack then went back to
Oklahoma without a burro. He
later heard that the Burro Man
shot all of the burros and sold
their hides at fifty cents each.
The harness, bridles and sad-
dles (left after the refugees
burned so many) were sold by
Zack Miller in one package.
The wagons left at Presidio
were sold by the acre. Five
acres of wagons brought the
Miller Brothers $2750.00
Colonel Zack Miller is re-
ported to have said that he
"cleaned up $65, 000. 00 on
his deal with the Mexican
Government. "
fugees could be warmed. The
Mexicans then burned four
hundred fancy cavalry saddles,
bridles and trappings. When
Zack heard about it he did not
complain. He knew that the
Mexicans had to do something
or die and he reckoned that he
would have burned his own
saddle had he been in their
place."
The Brand Inspector was
waiting at Marfa and he culled
out 100 head of horses which
bore the brand of the livestock
association members which he
represented. Then a Mexican
Government official demanded
100 horses in his cry of "fraud"
in the purchase from the Mexi-
can government. - Zack Miller
got the Mexican official to "you
cut one and I will cut one" so
that the Mexican didn’t get to
cut but 50 head of the choice
horses.
Politics, it is said, is the art
of the possible. The Miller
Brothers were past masters in
that art. When the custom of-
ficials at Marfa demanded
$3. 50 per head on the horses,
Colonel Joe Miller, head of the
public relations de partment of
Miller Brothers, contacted some
one higher up in the govern-
ment, and the horses were
moved custom free.
The freight agent at Marfa
told Zack Miller that the
freight on the horses from
Marfa to Fort Bliss, Oklahoma,
would be $185. 00 per car load.
Colonel Zack went to studying
the railroad's book of freight
rates. He found that the freight
on a car of cattle (from Marfa
to the 101 Ranch) was $80.00
per car, and that horses or
mules, shipped along with the
cattle for herding ; purposes,
could be shipped at the same
rate as cattle, plus $10.00 per
car. Colonel Zack then bought
three car loads of calves from
one of the local ranchers...
He loaded up three trains, one
car of calves and the balance
of horses and mules for herding
purposes with each train. When
the freight agent questioned
this arrangement, Zack Miller
told him that "them is wild
calves."
The trains were loaded at
During the Presidential elections for the past 30 years, I have en-
joyed discussing politics with old friend Roy Rascoe. Roy is a
Republican from Arkansas and I am a Texas Democrat. In the Dell
Valley Restaurant (Mon. Oct. 12th) I enjoyed a political pow-wow
with Roy. If I have things down right, at this time, Roy is a
Republican for Ross Perot, and I am a Democrat for Ross Perot.
***
During the week in Dell City, I got to speak to John and Annie
Campbell, Wilbur Parker, Gustaba Gomez, Jose Gomez, Shirley
Richardson, Melvin Gentry, Larry Brewton, Daniel Ainsworth, and
Betty Carol Perry.
Judge Doyle Ziler was busy during the week, giving away bags of
vine-ripened tomatoes which are really delicious. Judge and Mrs.
-■ Lois Ziler and their son, Jerry and his wife, Lynda, are all great
gardeners, and thev enjoy giving away the m any products of their
garden which is always an immense one.
***
Brother Charley Pierson, the church minister of the First Assembly
of God Church in Dell City came out Thursday (15th) to Crow Flat.
If there is any gloom where Brother Charley visits, he soon dispels
it.
***
Visitors at Brother Charley Pierson's Church (Sunday, 18th) for
the dedication of six-months old, Charles Thom as Pierson, were
the young man's maternal grandparents, Reverend and Mrs. Homer
Goodwin of Midland, Texas; paternal, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Pierson of Hereford, Texas; Cindy McCarty (Charles Thomas
Cousin) and her husband David of Playas, New Mexico.
Another visitor was Tammy Dennison, Dell City High School
Business teacher, escorted by Rick Archuleta of Dell City.
After the church services everyone was invited to enjoy a fine
meal prepared by the ladies of the church: Estella Mendoza and
her daughters Vianey and Cristie, Ester Gonzales, Frances
McCutcheon and her daughter Crystal, Mrs. Espiridon Muniz,
Sandi Archuleta, Socorro Archuleta, Mrs. Nova Pierson and her
daughter, Joy.
C.W., a Democrat for Ross Perot
***
Where are ex-Presidents (Republicans) Ronald Reagan, Gerald
Ford, and Richard Nixon, when the Bush-Quayle campaign needs
them so badly?
***
ZACK MILLER'S BIG HORSE TRADE
I would like to thank Lola Mae Perry, one of the fine cooks in
Dell City for the apple jelly she gave me when I was in Dell City
on Monday (19th).
***
To my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and my
many friends who read the Hudspeth County Herald.... rejoice with
me!!! In the October 1, 1992 issue of the Livestock Weekly my
story on the Matador Ranch was published and on October 15, 1992,
in the same publication, my story about Elmer Hepler was published.
***
ELECTION YEAR, 1992
The Presidential Debates, if they can be called that, prove that
you cannot win a debate (and I hope that no one can win an election)
emphasizing the faults of the other Party's candidate.
Slinging mud is an insult to the intelligence of the American *
people. If Bush-Quayle lose this election, it will be because they
turned away from the issues, and dipped into slime to smear Gov-
ernor Clinton.
Dan Quayle is not SirGallahad (as he would have us believe) who
said:
"My good blade carves the casques of men
My tough lance thrusts sure
My strength is the strength of ten
Because my heart is pure. "
When you see the scowl on President Bush's face, the most
charitable thing that can be said for him is that he appears to need
a laxative.
When Pancho Villa's Pelados (naked ones) drove the Federal
Mexican Forces across the Rio Grande from Ojinaga, Mexico,
to Presidio, Texas, about the middle of January, 1914, it was a
lucky day for Colonel Zack T. Miller of the three Miller Brothers
of the 101 Ranch fame, Zack was the trader of the Three Brothers.
Villa, in his Memoirs, said that he took Ojinaga, in a battle
that lasted one hour and five minutes. Villa lost thirty-five men
and said that he killed four hundred of the Federals and captured
their horses, saddles, rifles, machine guns and cannon. Villa
didn't capture everything belonging to the Federals, for under
command of Generals Salvador Mercado and Pascual Orozco, the
Federals surrendered to the American Army (even though no state of
war existed between the two countries) about 3600 head of horses and
mules, and harness, and hundreds of fine saddles, wagons, guns, am-
Zack T. Miller,
munition, and everything ex-
cept their women camp-follow-
ers.
A Villa legend, enjoyed by
the Mexican Peons, was that
Pancho Villa had the power to
turn himself into a dog, which
nipped at the heels of his pur-
suers, and it was said that
Villa yapped and nipped at the
heels of General Pershing who
was unsuccessful in his quest of
Villa across the barren wastes
of northern Mexico.
The countries of Central
Europe were preparing, for what,
that year, became the start of
World War I, and mules and
horses were in big demand.
Zack Miller had been in Mexico
buying such animals to supply
the European market. When he
heard that the Mexican Federal
Government in Mexico City
had authorized the Mexican Con-
sul in San Antonio, Texas, to
sell the army equipment sur-
rendered at Presidio, Zack
Miller wired an offers of
$45, 000. 00, cash, for every-
thing, and his offer was accepted.
Ellsworth Collings in his history
of the 101 Ranch (which history
might be called a record of
superlatives, such as Zack
Miller buying 35, 000 head of
Florida cattle at one time) and
Colonel Joe C. Miller buying
a $10, 000 00 dollar gold and
silver mounted saddle from
S. D, Myers, the famous
Western Saddle maker) said-
that Zack Miller got 3600 head
of horses, mules and burros
from the Mexican government,
but Mr. Collings did not break
the number down to how many
head of each.
Virginia Madison, in her book
"The Big Bend Country" said
that the Mexican refugees, who
moved along with men moving
the property of Zack Miller to
the railroad at Marfa were strung
out for a line of twelve miles
over the rough, rocky road.
The American government set
up four camps for the refugees
along the 95 mile route. The
Federal Mexican forces were
3, 500 soldiers, 1000 women and
children, dogs, cats and even
chickens were escorted by
United States troops, as they
straggled along. The weakest
of the Mexicans were allowed
to ride in the freight wagons
and on the horses and mules.
The ones able to walk were
forced to do so.
Quoting Mrs. Madison: "The
first night out a norther struck,
adding to the misery and suf-
fering. The fuel at hand for a
fire was sotol stalks and grease-
wood, which, blazed up too
quickly and died in the biting
wind before the shiverring re-
night and some how the Mexicare
official's horses were shipped
along with the Miller Brothers'
horses to the 101 Ranch. When
Zack Miller notified the Mexi-
can official that his horses were •
at the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma,
the Mexican fumed and fussed
a few days with telegrams, and
then was never heard from
again.
The railroad employees and
the Miller Cowboys could not
load the mules. They refused
to go up the chutes. One of a
the Mexicans who had helped
handle the mules in the Mexi-
can Army told them that the
mules were trained to follow
a bell mare.
The mare had already been
loaded. ‘She was unloaded
and the mules would follow her
into the cars and. she would be :
unloaded and lead another load •
of mules into another car.
Zack Miller received 600
burros, or pack-jacks, in his
trade and he did not know what
to do with them. When he was
offered $1.00 for the whole
bunch, he said "sold".
About a year later, when the
war in Europe was waging hot, a
Colonel Zack received an order
from the Greek Government
for 500 burros at $15.00 per
head. He went back to the
Big Bend area, found the Burro
Man and offered him $12.50
per head for the burros. The
Burro Man must have reasoned
to himself that Zack Miller was
going to make a big profit on •
the burros and turned down the
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