Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1885 — The Greatest Horse Breeding Establishment in America. [ARTICLE]

The Greatest Horse Breeding Establishment in America.

One of the. many wonderful enterprises the great West is noted for. and one which none favore i with opportunity should miss seeing, is the great breeding establishment of “(Jaklawn,’ owned by M. W. Dunham, at Wayne. HI., .35 miles from ( hicago. His importations of I’ercheron horses from Fiance, to date have aggregated^the immense sum of Sn.oO ,000. and ut the pre-en,t time at “Oaklawn” 500 head of the choicest specimens of that race,, nearly all recorded with the r pedi.rrees in the Fercheron Stud Book of France, can be seen, while on their Colorado ranges are 2,000 mares" and 32 imported Percheron stallions in breeding.