Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — BIG GOAT RANCH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIG GOAT RANCH.

Missouri Is to Have the Largest Goat Farm in the World. Tlie Frisco Live Stock Co. was organised in St. Louis for tlie purpose of maintaining an Angora gont ranch near Cuba, Mo., on the Frisco Railroad. The ranch will embrace 30,000 acres of

timbered land. It will be stocked with 85.Q00 goats brought from New Mexico, and will lie the largest goat farm in the world. The plans also include n packing house in Kansas City for slaughtering the goats for market. E. C. Madden, Third Assistant* Postmaster General, recommends a new rote of 4 cents a pound for nil publications now admitted to the second-class mail, except legitimate newspapers. He also wants third and fourth-class mull consolidated, at tlie rate of 1 cent for 2 ounces. William Richards, aged 82, of Wellsville, 0., committed suicide Monday afternoon by hanging. He was a veteran of the Crimean war and participatjd In tho aiego of Sebastopol, vhere ho was severely wounded.

GOAT AND LOCATION OF RANCH.