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Hinkle Pioneer Cattleman, Ros-
well, and. Cattle hipping
points sesured from a 4;owboy
The Peeos, by J. Y. Hinkle
published 1V5. page 7 all per-
sonal latowledge of writer.
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From 1886, until the middle ninetiesitoewell was the cattle
eetider for all the spring round -ups and spring drive to shipping
points.
Ronnd.ap kg(iss and cattle and oowboys in ther hichmaeolok
boot, leather "ohaps" and ten "gallon hats", would come in from
the rnsws from ar far north ex Fort &miner, and south nr keeos
City Texas a distance of stout to hundred ard fifty tiler. aims
of thetil often had not seen a man, or a postoffiee or store for
as lo.; .1 nix months or mnre. Roswell the ablow-moff»torn" with
one adobe store lighted by two ke:osene lamps -ith tin reflec-
tors at the back which were hung at each end of the -,-tore, ono
near th(; po toffiee which rae in a oorner of th tore, rM the one
hotel of thr to also eJnstrufWd If adolJe„ seemed a ity of Bright
lijohts" to the eare-free eowboys to long aray fr:1 olv1/17ations
The ones 1.410 had lot disposed of their monthl rare from tweatI
five to thf-ty dollars would usually enenge a "roon4 A the hotel,
thoh would be a bed fri the attic rhleih ras nleepine •w tern for all
glievts. (kmiloys, doctors lawyerf:', and 7fl ooeasi:r.,41 Territo7 "11
Un7errx2. '.1.arry) Arad share the covertees or thiten..
eer rith no matter rh7A their sool7A rtnrclill :ielt
be.
If there were an7 °harsh meetirge durinc round u- timer in
Loswell, or %anion% it nate little dlfferenee whloh to the cow..
ber:r, they would he there litera11.7 'Itrith bells ,:n".(jincling spur)
vhieh they never removed for churoh rerv!oe or thic dAnce.
one oocesion, durine the sone serviee at ohuroh, *hen the orranist
(Af.ne ;Label 3rawn, or ifehn -,tanets little dlrtter Anna, the:: took
turns at the organ) started out in r. beenninf of the ofrertory a
eowb6:: nolonnly rove to hie feet, nearl:' ever ne th)urht to mile
but nottead, nueh to the anucenent of the oonfreeation, he seleeted
a .:t1(gl. opeoe !uld began to jie, or deed the ;Aw'. eevini- had n
little too much to drin%, eft., nceinc hlp (Vince inflt Ileenincly
7reoAated, It ww, a hard job to rtst h t vent, tn4 n (thane. to
"TJaf,e the hat". Keedleer. to any, the laLt rntl preW c ell filled by
the tipey eortoy aroll se Mr,. 41,...mpaWo=, ,ho oontritinted
the lints ehsre of the oolleotIon.
Ati another ompeasino durtnc a revtval et2t crmduoted by *at.
relist Abe kinlker, rhio)' the "colter of thle article attended, in the
eprinc of 1894, the oweboys gave liberal:1z tor d colleotion for
payine expencen of the asettnr, then the es.phi:!, 1.1t1 h%d drIced In
ehnrch nme 'nth r before, nered the 1=4T:A of the ''ten cralon
hate, and to7)14: up 4 oolloetion f'tIr the chureh bell. beeane knolls
thl,tehout Anves. V,ottitt" as, The .kriebo2 .41111", .1nd mazy- be seen to
da;,' occupying a 21acte of heno;
on the high terrawed earner of
hem the round -up cane to
'with shoutu* of joy from tho
as 1 2.enember sh;utinc, EL
boat rip -pouted "The steantql_tts
n the 1Rrin of the A. A. A;hurch
.i'onneylvania Avenue and -ipoond «Itreet.
tarn, it "lax hAlled as enthuni.xstion1-
;.ounc people 2The roundup's eeninas,
ahlid on the Alseiseire..1 Liver when a
inel" for the "Shuck" vecendInnero
3
or irlppers, if one ma fort:matt? snow -7h to Asa ft-tvor With
the sevebovv„ road knew thky uiA 'e*ft' 4.r.altati-7mo V; then, vere
lofts& ferate..' to eagerU by '..toth +41,:t ola Ileoi-ao of Eames11•
'1".he raund u "aback", is sel-ree nt thL: ro n meal, on
pieneerio ar4y nt t'w cm.Z. 'he trmil :tn- the frill
,:-eAr In -ovuell„ awl the Imrbolwel beef i-End mutton, "sonmef.
a -gun", ice aream
bent, hut ionchol,,
produeed of the
and noursdaugh hi:enit etz-Atod on a by s chuelcssagrm sook.
And coffec., rervel to t'e "OA tinc-: in MAW to
it lr.ekl- frnethini7 n
ottehuck-,,,aron nesle of ntev-, 7runes, frijoles
.t.
Ivor th-t am not be rew.
!there van in the cattle but;ineee ii 1P87.4 wid. taring
the fAN., of that yen? the C Anar 4ttle-COmpares (41, Y. Mutts
_
:bell"- pow• er) "drove a he7d of ()attic to layth 14Xnn nnd enIlped
them* ‘;hieare and they OW% mucr. mcre than the Preieht, ant
fc, the next fc-Y,. yw%r:2 it \yeas almeA inpeeritir to veU cattle At
*mid .ianer
44ne party 7.1ocut th!lt t'ia hteCn tratn toall of oteere to
mrket C. they dc hia tbr 101-. to!me.ye we
ca- v., one .714 often tre hordr or 1:-Tand. fifteen to tent;! hundrf.d
head to In!Irkot rovl 111., -n,!! Orilt, eleven
nu4. tourtern deinrst for one, t- th.r.e(- ye rteere,
;onpared \it!. the pries in 1868 th,A John -lhiffun reseiveA. ever-
t
e5 -htesn Aellarc-! A be -A, It vfeemel that the ant':741 'lueines- war
1021124?,
net ve- anA exvpnrine John Vhirmatt3 cvar-ce prise per hen&
2i the 1:v4Pitf.ive to 'air* dellAre per het& 'Ate at the 2rer,-nt
t!,.,041 the enttic inductr7 har improve& ma& frix oher4 of iftvat
cilutbeastern Bow Ilexioo*