The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1938 Page: 9 of 33
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1888—Advocating City and Community Interest*
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Dublin Street Heene in 1898
Ginned in Erath Comty When
Picture Was Made In Year 1
•tp . a V** '
on foot is no man ate-
overb belonged to
i the West was a land
|U factors: horses and
Retreating Indians, ad-,
tavalrymen, poney ex-
bridging over , 2,000
■tlnent in 10 days, OOW-
r spreading an empire,
- Indians, Mexican!,
teamen _ scouts, hun-
tea, trappers, outlaws,
rangers, plainsmen,
men, brush poppers, —i
[ made up the population
fat _ they all went;
Their movements, their*
power for which theyi
ttded on horses.
■ u Cortes landed In
t in a great surfs of
realized the power
home gave him, pey-
as well as
over the Da-
God," observes the
dnmicler of the oob-
owed the victory to
Theau, out of esteem
horse worthiness
that of the OonquisU-
•Ives, Bernal Dias
*t down the names
*w*®* tod mares that!
J* “* on this trip." It
■mhle from their view
•« a remote region Of
^ h»ve graven a,
t» hnmage of a black
“ Oortes and have de-
sa?iffjSl»
•forced by the
^ neceselty of
*#d training
•“•pension of
5^"SSStaB
Wdiiigs — *o mulU-
®er«dlablr brief time
were ranging
Even if the Oon-
* primarily to
•Uvsr, they had
• which to
“ Qulvtras,
are* and
“k coni
While
in
the
with
«ock
as
•maches
*2“ •» «"t
prairies of Alberta the wild off-
spring of the Spanish stock — the
mustangs — ran loose where the
buffalo drifted or, antelope graz-
ed. v.
The advent of the horse was so
revolutionary among Plains In-
dians as to usher what Is known
as the Age of Horae Culture. For
them the change from foot to
mount, while perhaps not greatly
changing their Institutions, must
have been aa radical and as ,-cach-
ing on character and habits of life
as have been the changes front
the oxcart to automobile among
the white people, who now possess
the territory once Claimed by the
wild horses and their wild riders.
As put by one great Americanist,
"Without the hone the Indian was
a half-starved skulker In the tim-
ber, creeping up on foot towards
the unwary deer or building a
brush corral with Infinite labor to
surround a herd of antelope ancj
seldom venturing more than a few
days' journey from home. With
the horse he was transformed Into
the daring buffalo hunter, able taf
procure In a single day enough
food to last his family for a whole
year leaving him free to sweep
the plains with war parties along
a range of a thousand miles."
The boras became to the Plain*
Indians the symbol of wealth and
823 Thomas James saw
a band of Oomanehes on the plains
capture <»d tame In a few hours
non than a hundred mus-
They told him that at their
camp on the Red River they
11,000 horses. The Co-
ware the great hors#
but Crows snd other In-
to the north were not far
supplied thousands of
thieves both red and
snd the California ponies
Ivan east to the Missouri
i epic drive of the range
■es of v Spanish or
__ was from Tex-
of
The above picture Is a scene
of Dublin, Texas, In 1898 show-
ing cotton as it was then
brought to town. Erath county
produced around 00 009 balm
annually In those years.
seen or heard any estimate of thd
number of mustangs. They could
hardly have bean so numerous as
the buffaloes; yet their number,
must also nave run into the mil-
lions.
On the staked plains of Texas,
between Palo Duro and the Salt
Frk of. the Brozos alone, Plains-
men who suddenly took over the-
country about 1877 estimated 50,-
000 head. But probably the great-
est wild horse range in the world,
_wlth the possible exception of
some regions on the pampas of
the Argentine ff the llanos of
Venzuela — was the country be-
tween, the Nueces River and thd
Rio Grande. On old maps of Texas
this territory Is marked “Wild
Horses" or "Vast Herds of Mus-,
tanga,” and it was sometime*
known as "Mustang Dessert."
Here the wild, ownerless horses
gathered Into droves numbering
thousands; deep and criss-crossing
their trails marked the habitless
land as plainly as roads and barb-
ed wire fences marie It today.
The wild horses were of many,
colors, but predominating was thei
"coyote dun” a dun with a dark!
stripe running down the back and
Into the tall and often marking
the legs. As henchmen belonging
to the Southwest know no cowl
horse hardier or better adapted
to range work that the coyote dunf
has ever been ridden by a vaquero
It la a great pity breeders do not
rescue this almost extinct breed,
aa the Asoclacion Criadores da
Criollo have rescued the Spanish,
horse of the Argentine.
A traveler named McClintock„
while traversing the country be-
tween the Nueces and the Riot
Grande In 1846. estimated that hai
saw 11000 head of mustangs In
one hard while Ms companion
computed the mam to total 7000
Whan Taylor’s army broke camp,
at Corpus Christ! the
and began Its march Into
It was accompanied by ~
V. •.
■
memoli
Horse
“A
steal horses. Mustang- were hard
to catch, and once caught they
were harder to tame. Only' with;
difficulty could they be domes-
ticated upon the open range;
Many frontiersmen never tried to
handle anything but colts. Still,
thousands and tens of thousand.-:
of grown mustangs were called
from the unnumbered caballadaa
and broken on the spot or driven!
off.
The mustangs formed a clasp
peculiar to themselves. One oft
them sang through song and story
became known whenever meri
sang or yarned to cattle or yarn-
ed of “buckskins.”
There was a gallant Texan.
They called him Mustang Grey;
When quite a youth he left his
home,
Went' ranging far away.
He ne'er would sleep within a
tent,
No comforts would he know;
But like a brave old Texan
A-ranging he would go.
•*
To tell of the ways and means
of these mustangs would make a
study in itself. They caught colts,
and raised them on bottles. They
snared mustangs, “cresed” them,
“walked” them, ran them down,
roped, penned, cornered them ini
box canyons, starved them away
from water and In scores of ways
captured them. Then as land In-
creased in value, the mustangerS
were hired to /shoot wild horses
down rid pastures of them as
though they were beasts of prey.
They devoured grass and enticed
away and spoiled gentle horses.
But even could the mustangv
have been captured and tamed*
the average were in little demand.
The average, I say. The term,
mustang. ,t must be clearly un-
derstood embraced many grades
of- horses. ScTub creatures, gim-
let-hipped and narrow-withered,
ran beside smooth filies and' paw-
erful stallions that were the sur-
vival of the fittlest and that by
the law of natural selectldii kept
—until mustangers had. “topped"
them out — the breed from de-
Pi oduction In Erath County
Is Estimated This Year at
Less than 2,000 Bales
Average County Production
For Past Five Years Is
7,000 Bales
r- /
It is a far cry to the days wheh* world's production of cotton waul
could reach to our right, the herd
extended. To the left, it extended
equally. There was n« gstimating*
the animals in it; I have no ide*
that they could all have been cor-
ralled In the state of Rhode Island
or Deleware, at one time. If they
had been they would have been so
thick that the pasturage would
have given out the first day. PoOAi Y"r ”• ~ J? »reea rrom ae-
ple who saw the Souther herd^ ^°rat‘on' r«t gMfcraUy from
the above picture was taken,
'tyier^ was gold in the cotton!
fields in those days, and as Mr,
Kight, local ginner and cotton!
buyer says, ' “boys had mord
money in thSae days than men'
do sow.” Beter than fifty thous-
and \bales of cotton were raised
in K»ath county that year but'
that was before the law makers
of thii great United States had
forgotten that true and wise say-
ing of the father of democracy,
Thomas Jefferson; "Were we di-
rected from Washington when to,
sow and When to reap, we should
soon want bread." The estimate of
cotton production in Erath county
for, the year 1938, lorty years af-
ter this picture was taken, twenty
years after the doctrine of diver-
sification began to dictate to the
farmer just how much cotton he
could produce, is less than twoi
thousand bales. Wi
want bread.
The government’s forty per cent
reductln of cottqn acreage to-
gether with one ‘ of the worst,
plagues of boll wtevils and boll
worm in the history of Erath
county ar reasons sufficient^ we
think, for the smallest cotton cron
In the history of th* county..
In the year 1914 during the
month of August it rained prac-
tically every ilay and, aa a re-
sult Erath county experienced
fe may begin to
me yea*
Mexico.
buffalo fifteen or twenty years
ago can appreciate the size of the
Texas band of wild horses In
1948."
Yet contrary to what seems to
be (Grant's conception, mustangs
did not, like buffaloes, habitually
run in the vast herds. Their usual
habit waa to run In small bunches,
each commanded by a stallion,
sometimes by a number of young'
stallions that had been whipped
[away from the mares banding
together — In the mknner of tur-
key gobblers and buck deer when,
not mating. Men who mustanger
yet live, and while the present
century waa yet young I heard)
old men who have since raadol
their long last ride, inscribe the
mustang sights of their youth;
but io konw the herd habits of the)
wild horse at a time whan theyi
literally possessed the land, wo
must go to such testimony a*
lias come down from decades pre-
ceding the Civil War.
K. R. Wlfhtman an observant/]
man who made notes for Stephen.
F. Austin in the twenties noted
that the mustangs were most,
numerous on mssquita grass coun-
try above the coastal praires and
that they ranged In gangs, vary-
ing in number from twenty head'
to three and four hundred. Bach
"gang" he said "seems to have,
a commander-in-chief with his
subalterns, and adjutant who
brings up. the rear, and a sentinel
and a spy la sent to reoonnoiter
and examine the nature and fores
of an enemy. Comlgg within eJ
distance deemed prudent." he
stops and looks; If ha scents dan-
ger, he makes a circuttout run
back to the herd. Then with a
..snort and nourish of the tall,
the whole force break and flee.''
the traveler already
in vast hards of
that h« >aw
thsM
""On our approach,” he.
the flowing tall, the tossing mane,
the arched neck made their free-
dom possessor appear, at a dis-
tance, a nobler animal than he,
proved * to be after he had been:
saddled. The antlered buck leap-
ing the brush always appeared
larger than he measures upon the
ground with a bullet through hlsl
heart. The guardian stallion of
many a manada (bunch of mares)
appeared to horsemen who glimp-
sed him as superior to anything
they have ever seen In the equina
world.
Methodist Women’s
Missionary Society
Has Played Important
Part ii Church History
The loyal women of the Dublin
Methodist church have played an
important part In carrying ont
the work of the church, first la-
boring as a Ladles’ Aid Society
and then Parsonage and Horn*!
Mission Society.
About 1MB a dozen or mors
women met at the church and)
organised The Women's Foreign'
Society. The following
Missionary £
la a partial
list of charter mem-
bers: Mrs. Richards, Mrs. S. D,
McEachem. Mrs. H. B. Sanaa,
Mrs. W. H. Mathews, Mrs. M. C,
Witcher. Mrs. A. C. King, Mrs. 8
J. Weaver, Mrs. W. F. Perry, Mrs.
M. C. Fewell.
A few years later the Home,
Mission Society was organised.
The work was carried on under
these two department* until 1919
when they were united and
came the Women’s Missionary So-
y. The work of these laborer*
positively the worst .-courage of
boll weevils before or since that
time. As a result production of
cotton was put down from 26,000
bales in 1914 to 9. 425 in 1915, and
In 1916 there were even more of
the weevils which reducea the-
production to 6.565. which was
the low In production up-to that*
time. However, the next two
years proved that the county1,
yield could be lowered, for in'
1917, 5,096 bales were ginned and
In 1917 only 3,362 were raised In
the county. This was due to an
unprecedented drought. But the,
drought succeeded in killing the)
boll weevils and In 1919 the pro-
duction has only exceeded that
amount twice, 1924 17,582 bale*
and 1925, 17.520 hales
From 1898 to 1908 the average
production was 43,000 bales. The
average from 1908 to 1914 wa*
81,531 bales per year in Erath
From 1914 to 1924 the
production was lowered
drastically to 9,661 bales per
year. During the next ten years
production declined to an average
of 8,828 bales per year, while for
the last five years, since the Fed
eral Government has exercised,
control of acreage reduction pro-
duction has fallen down to th*
low average of 7,673. This year’s
production will cut this figure,
down to leas that a five thousand
average.
Below la a listed tabulation of.
cotton prduction In Erath county;
since the yaar 1908
county.
average
and th#
■ ...» M.081
1608 .........................................
1010 »••••*«••«**»•*
1913 ..................... 30,3Mi
IgM •
1916 ....................................... J***
1917 .....................................
1618 .....*.......
1919 ..........*............................
nearly ten'millian bales with T4x-
as and the South producing the
majority of that. Today Texas
and the South produces some fif-
teen mlllibn bales which is leas
than half the world’s production.
Foreign markets are flooded with
cotton produced in countries other
than the United States and sold,
at a lower price than Southern
cotton can be bought. Never-the-
less the world has not yet pro-
duced h higher grade of cotton
than has the United States and
there is always going to be a de-
mand for Texas and Erath County
cotton..
H. L. Kight. local ginner and
cotton buyer, maintains that the
cotton production can be increas-
ed in Erath County even on1 the
present acreage reduction pro-
gram. This he says can be done
by planting pedigreed seed and
by eliminating the weevil and the
boll worm. It la his contention
that these pests have winter quar-
ters somewhere and the logical
place for the quarters are In the
fence comers, rubbish In fence
rows, brush piles and In the brush'
along draws and creeks. Thus, he
says If the fanners would band
together and during the winter
month put on a rubbish burning
Campaign in places mentioned'
these insects would soon be des-
troyed. This sort of a program)
was carried out in Erath county
during the winters of 1923, 1924
and 1925 Government statistics
show that those three years were
the last in which a normal cot-
ton crop has been produced In th*
county. During the winter months
of those years rubbish In the fence
rows, ditches, branches, creeks*
draws and brush patches were
burned in and near fields. at»y»«
1625 this has not been practioed
and statistics show that the ave-
rage cotton crop has been around
8,000 bales annually, while dur-
ing those three years in which
rubbish was burned the average
crap ran a total of better thr.Q
■ kM
crop n
17,000
bales
It is the contention of Mr,
Kight that what was accompHto*
ed in 1923 1924 and 1925 can be;
duplicated in the years to come.'
He also believes to enhance
duction that after the
campaign has been completed-1
good cotton seed should be pit
ed on good land, land that
been well prepared for plant
Erath county needs more
to meet the cash demands of
farmers and Mr. Kight
that this can be had wit
terferrlng with dive
plana, but he la aomewhat
tlcal concerning the ever
lng acreage reduction
now being sought by the'
Government.
NEWS ARTICLES CA1
DUBLIN
Regular Correspondence.
Mias A
Rev. Mr. Hensler. Is
with meningitis. She la
pected to live.
J. Walter St. Clair of
la on a Walt to his wife
ants.
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Perry, Francis E. The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1938, newspaper, September 23, 1938; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth561013/m1/9/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.