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Show "RANCH HOUSE" AND THE OVNER OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST RANCH 1 ,250,000 ACRES - 1 The picture shoWS Santa cWtrudis" ihe "ranch hoUsi of Mrs Henrietta M. King, owner of 'he largest ranch ii, (he world. This is said to i" one o' the finest homes In South Texas. Below Is ' picture ol Mis King He ranch, which covers three counties. Is I nearly as large as the state of Dehv iware. The map of Delaware give .1.1 j Idea of the size of her ranch. . 1 Siafl I on 1 spondciil. KINGSVTLLE, T x - Rockefeller and Morgan iny ha a n".i 1 - urnei I on the world's money. , 1 Mrs. Henrietta M King has s near-corner near-corner on the world's land, or at least : so it seems. I Por three hours, by train, one rides I across her ranch. And si HI a two-hour .toili nev is alien, I bcfori ' h- fence postJ 'of her nearest noighbor is sighted I I-'or Mrs. King, a sweet-t'acod rnoih-erlv rnoih-erlv woman of 70. widow of Captain I Richard King, soldier and stockman. Is the owner of the world's largest ranch. It has 1 250.0'in a res ii a rl the site of Delaware. COV I 1 1 1 ! I I nti us It covers every Inch of thro, counties I Kleberg. Willacy and Cameron. But niubt remarkable of all is Mrs. Ring's city KlngsviMc. It Is the only city of its kind in the. world residents say. For IClngBville, a modern city, lavs I in the ti ."i ceuter ol the King ranch, 'surrounded on four sides by the LStflO,- 00U acre s belonging to one "person. At Mrs, King's palatial ranch home ' a mansion of Spanish beauty, one 'learns the storv of the "biggest ranch" from Its owner Klftj years ago m hueband and I settle, 1 here.',' s-he said. "We had but five neighbors hi all south Texas They owned ranches "i ipprnxlmktelj tho same size as ours. Land was free then Nobodv wanted it. In fact. It was Impossible Im-possible to give it away. - IN I s V s1( "Then my liusband died My daughter daugh-ter married the firiest man in all south Texas llr bad vision. He showed mr how I could aid so many people through my land. 1 gave him full charge.'' Later ?he "finc. man In south Texas"- Bober; J. Kleberg, was Inter-v Inter-v lewed. 'Mrs King is the mosj wonderful woman in the world." he said "I explained ex-plained so hit nr. dream the building build-ing up of this great ranch, she sot aside 1 ,000.000 acres in the center ol l! and told m to exporlmonl with that. Today 5500 people live here The I i . r;f. ! - " ml S iy I cultivate 28,000 acres of tin- finest land. Pifty thousand head in their , cattle have free range On the rest "M mother-ln-law tcultlvate Z acres more. In cotton, cane and kaffro H.-r 100.000 head of cattle an spreacl oyer the remainder of the property " I 1 1 T sill ) I s DON I : Kleberg then pointed out the things , .Mrs. King has done : Twelve years ago one had lo travel by wagon from Corpus Clwlstl to the Mexican border Mrs King offered 1 the St. l.ouls. Biowiisvllle and Mexico jRallway property tf they would bdlld. A -oud tailvva and 1 Jloo.imo depot resulted- I Built pew Mth schools and gav- to the children of the community, it cost I'll 126.01)0 j P'our oilier schools, one an Industrial and agricultural school for Mexican . hlhlrcn. eosl her 90;000 more, 'j She bow provides teachers for all 'of these. Two Catholic, One, Presbyterian, a Methodist, a Baptist and a Christian I church stand upon grounf she gae. Built Case Rlcardo a $200,000 hotel. ho-tel. Built Sanla if rtruill.-," the mag-1 1 ii'n ' lit King home, said to have cos' 1200,000, and la admitted to be the most beautiful dwelling in south Texas; KlngSVllle citizens,, through Mrs j King's ,,id. own their own $175,000 electric light plant and their $230. 000 waterworks. Cotton gins, owned by the people were made possible through her gifts and aid. "Were never bothered with egi-lators egi-lators probing tile housing question here." the natives say. "We've found the Garden ol Eden? their unofficial rami for KlngSVllle and while city folk worrv about theij two-room apartments .we're living in happiness llr. our ranch of 1.250.0OO acres, niak-ling niak-ling mOney and growing and all In 1 12 years. "' ' |
