Business: Texas Rumble

Last week south Texas citizens heard the first rumblings of what may become one of the most famed lawsuits in the history of their State. The great King Ranch, four-fifths the size of Delaware, is the prize at stake. It is the largest ranch in Texas, the largest in the U. S., and, so far as can be definitely learned, the largest in the world. On its 1,250,000 acres graze 125,000 cattle which, at proper seasons, are rounded up or tick-dipped or dehorned or castrated or branded by some 300 highly skilled Mexican cowboys....

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