First State Bank (Rankin, TX)

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As Seen by Sam Ashburn ewes. He bought cattle in the San Angelo country, around Midland and Ozona 25 years ago and for many years pastured cattle in the Osage. Now he is city sanitarian for Mc- Several hundred calves, in addi tion those previously reported, have been purchased in this immediate territory by Omaha Fort Worth buyers for middle western feeders. W. S. Cline paid John Abe March $20 per head for 400 steer calves that will be shipped Tuesday from Carlsbad to expected the weight of the calves will average 450 pounds. Mr. Cline consigned to an Iowa point on Tuesday 54 steer calves averaged 440 pounds and for which he paid 1-2 cents per pound He Charles Kaase $4.90 per hundred weight for 140 steer which were shipped to Nebraska Sam Mitchell of Fort Worth early in the week Nebraska 159 steer calves which he paid 1-2 cents pound. The average weight was 370 pounds. There are good many other sheepmen McCamey. Blanks has about 40 sections north of the town which he leased from Boyd Cox. Claude Owens has about 30 sections of the Bill country. W. Johnson of Sheffield has the 40 sections John Garner, Jr., used to have. Murphy of Eldorado is also to the north. Frank Lane runs good many sheep north of Rankin. Lee Lane seems to be the chief goat man having about 300 head. The First State Bank of Rankin 27 head deer heads the lobby of the building, of the remarkable collections in the southwest. Since the incorporation in Ran kin off and the city officials have failing to keep up the cows the boys at the Upton County spend some time each day running the off the best patch of bermuda grass in the county. W. H. Holcombe cashier of the First State Bank of Rankin, says good rain and that section will be in perfect condition physically Those who have finished lambing in that averaged per cent and better. Calves are beginning to arrive this crop should be good. From Rankin half way over that straight speedway that runs to Midland the country has been fenced for sheep. Ranchmen are still getting good deal of oil lease money. The average about 50 cents an acre. but about 50 per cent of the leases were in force have been dropped. Several new oil wells are in prospect in that country. After the bank holiday the bank deposits the First State Bank of Rankin rose $21,000 immediately. About thirty new accounts were opened. tribute to the excellent management of Tom Murphey, president and W. H. Holcombe the cashier, couple of boys who know how to run a bank, yes sir. They talk about dividing the sheep and the goats. On the roads travelers see the sheep lying down in one group and the goats off respectful The goat has the most dignity. he holds himself erect -the sheep slob with double chin. He the only animal that makes double chin pay off, for you can shear that chin and get some extra wool man with double chin nothing ahead of him but a reducing There is man now residing near Comanche on 160 acre place who in 1919 paid $18 for ewes, and $68 for some four and five year old steers. He was offered $120 for the steers but refused, saying they would go to $140. When he began he owned thousands acres land in Comanche, Brown and Mills ties. When and he had made his last assignment to cover his losses, he had his homestead and that was all. Karl Tate. the cashier of the Big State Bank at Big Lake. says the bank gained in deposits immediat after the Individual deposits $17,000 on the first day. $1200 on the second and $2300 on the third. ranchmen who have sums of money at the bank have reduced their debts during the last year. R. L. Boston and J. Garner sold yesterday 300 head of mixed calves to the Page Cattle Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, getting 1-2 cents a pound for the coming steer yearlings and cents for the coming heifer yearlings. The cattle have pastured on the Connellee ranch near Carlsbad for the last few and will weigh out well. Mr. Boston had been offered cents for the steer end several times but held on until they raised the ante half cent. miles of road leading from McCamey toward Iraan drawing lot of favorable attention. The guards are as wide as the road and the iron is railway iron. James Key, the county commissioner, entered office with VOW to build that road and see to it that a north south highway through McCamey. The county has done its part and has promise the state highway department that will build the link connecting McCamey with the paved road in Crane County to the The cattle guards over the new 4.2 north.