Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — Biggest Rench in Texas. [ARTICLE]

Biggest Rench in Texas.

The “X. I. T.” in the Pan Handle is the greatest ranch in Texas, embracing half a dozen counties and containing nearly 3,000,000 acres. The ranch Is divided into seven sections, each managed by a foreman, and each connected with the headquarters by mteans of telephones. The whole is run with the system and dispatch which characterizes all great industries. On this ranch now run considerably more than 100,000 head of cattle, and an idea of the size may be gained from the fact’that the pasture fence extends 210 miles In one direction and twenty-five In another, making a total of 6,000 square miles. Prom time to time sipall parcels of the land have been sold, and meanwhile valuations have appreciated from fifty cents an aor« to sou? times that amount— Detroit Free Press*