Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — A Large Pasture Field. [ARTICLE]

A Large Pasture Field.

As an example of the extent of the fenced acres in the Territory, your correspondent being with a Mprty ok-gen-tlemen in the Indian TfstncfaSif oh a hunting : The party entered the Eastern gates of a pasture field at 8 o’clock in the morning, and, traveling westward during the day, passed through one of the western gates at 6 o’clock in the evening, and yet this is only one of several large pasture fields in the Indian Territory. It is sa d that Maj. Drum alone has sixty miles of fence. The fences are built of cedar posts and three strands of barbed wire. The cattle business of the Indian Territory has grown to immense proportions, there being at present not less than 200,000 head of cattle on the rang e.—Wichita letter.