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...Hampton's 3,000-acre farm near Decatur, Tex. last week, a three-year-old Black Angus became the most valuable bull in the world. To Owners Hampton and Urban Simon. Rancher Jack Danciger of Fort Worth handed a check for a one-third interest in Prince 105 SAF. Price of Danciger's one-third interest...
Fred arranged to rent the site from the rancher who owned it (with a verbal agreement to give him 15% of any commercial ore mined), and began to dig for buried treasure. He had only the barest knowledge of mining practices, and for three years he worked alone, hacking away with a pick and a crude handdrill. Many Saturdays Martha Schwartzwalder swept the school floors and washed blackboards so her husband could work on his mine. It was a grinding, grueling job. On the last four unblazed miles to the minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice...
...contrapuntal arrangement of Brubeck's character has a strong bass of common sense and energy-perhaps because his father was a rancher and cattle buyer. His life also has its flights of lyricism-perhaps because his mother was a music teacher with dreams of being a concert pianist, or perhaps only because he grew up among the green Western hills. But above all these, there are high, hammering, urgent notes-and that may be because Dave Brubeck always seems to be looking for something...
Harrell set up teams to handle all claims, had every cattleman come to his office to settle on a figure. To each, Harrell offered a mutually acceptable price for every cow or steer lost, signed and handed over each check personally. One rancher filed a claim for 1,500 head, walked out with a check for $57,000. A widow, whose herd had been wiped out, got enough for a new herd...
With the payoff completed, the grateful ranchers decided to honor Harrell. Feedman Harrell, who had lost 40 Ibs. sweating out the payments, would not say just how much the disease had cost him or how it would affect his company, but he admitted that the payment ran "into the millions." Said a small rancher at the party last week: "He didn't have to do anything. He could have told us to go to hell...