Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 65

'ouffi im WwiUiW -m' 4'W 7 iT7 1VM 13-E Corpus Christl CALLER-TIMES Sun TWO BRANDS YOU CAN DEPEND UPON long ban a eualoa amongprlvata antarprlaara from acroaa tha Rio Gruaa to driva thalr oxcmrta ovar to a big aalt laka on tba Taxaa Ida and thera fill thalr carta with alt acoopad from tho dry laka bad BurwaU notad thla rather brlak traffic and (purred on by a severe ahortafa of folding money ha convinced himself that the salt merchants ought to pay something for thalr waree So equipped with a type of armament that would make his Idea convincing and logical to other folks he Med himself off to the salt flat and a-waited the arrival of the nest trader from acroaa the river Negotiations wars short and sweet and thereupon BurwaU whcihV JtaS! I trucks rsmalnliur Tf vshloles are divided Udied the price of once free salt tmj at IS a load There were no re- Operation of the four divisions of the King Ranch require the use of U0 motor vehicles ranging from an purpoeo Jeeps to six-wheel trailer trucks Among thla number are SO pea-cars eight or tea Jeep five six-wheel trucks Toe bet ween pick-ups one and two-ton trucks Each cow fence windmill and machine camp has a pick-up or truck assigned to it said Cy Tsary There'S a two-fold reason for this assignmant: One la to keep the camp supplied with materials and equipment from tho ranch wars-house and tha other is to have fast transportation available tn case of tho injury of an employ so boon especially fortune ta on tho low number of accidents requiring medical attention and Tsary said always a certain number of unavoidable finger praina outs and rope buns that are serious enough to require immediate attention'' Whom that emergency arises tt'i nice ter the Injured man to have a faster and more comfortable moans of transportation at hand than a roe-pony percussions to the arrangement Tho salt merchants continued to ms the river and load their carta but during Burnell's regime they shelled out two dollars for every load they cartod and everybody apparently was happy Fight Against Ticks In 1921 BurwaU want to tho Santa Gertrudla Division of King Ranch where he remained for a year before going to tho Laureles Division In those days Texas ranchers wars fighting a battle against the Texas fever tick and Burwell got right Into the middle of the battle at Laureles Ho rocaUs that he and his fellow workers were confronted with th task of dipping as many as 90000 cattle every two weeks It was a Mg Job but by 1SU th fight against ticks had won and tin trouble became a thing at the past on the Laureles as weU as throughout South Texas For seven years following his first stay at laurels Burwell worked for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Kaisers' Association He became one of the best known cowmen in South Texas and today wherever cowman gather sooner or later the name of Charlie BurwaU is likely to creep into the conversation along with that of Graves Peeler another veteran in the ranching world of South Texas w-tllTUd Ui '99S It was in 19)0 that Burwell returned to the Laureles as fore burned ui uw Murwiw mm CHABUE BUBWELL Long at Laureles ONE OF BEST KNOWN COWMEN Charlie Biirwell Has Headed Laureles Division 23 Years ao three generations in tho same family working at Laura let He starts tha youngsters out early giving them Jobs to do after school and diving tho holidays Ha observes tbs youngsters and loams their Ilk as and aptitudes and by the time they are ready to begin full-time employment they have found themselves and get into tha Jobe for which they are beet suited and for which they have a nature! aptitude For 100 years the Running brand of tha King Ranch has stood for a continuous effort to improvt tha quality of American cattle and tha environment In which livestock li raised The programs inaugurated by this world-famous institution have brought great benefits to Texas and to its people For ons-fourth of this time the owners of tho Caldwell brand have been raising farm and ranch standards throughout the world by tha manufacture of implements whose use has enabled those who raise cattle cottorv grain vegetables and so on to produce more on fewer acres or to moke brush covered land return a profit To learn how you can produce more on the land you own write for a copy of our FREE booklet "Richer Land gnd i Better Crass" Caldwell Sons I 4 CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS Giant Irtish Cutters Rotary Brash Cutters Rotary Stalk Gotten Weed Cutters Seed led Rollon Row Discs Comparatively speaking Char- For as long as he can remember lie BurwaU is as big as the Laureles' BurwaU has lived and worked a-division of King Ranch the la ranch in the Cbtulla country isioa over which he rules with wMre charli bom and one competence and confidence He's of the tough eet Jobs the senior had Mg in a lot of Mg in was that of keeping his son in the schoolroom instead of the understanding in bnuh to be foiled by some lonely law violator who happened to wander into the territory he patrolled Burwell put in two years with the Rangers and then returned to his first love working cattle He took a Job on the Tom East spread during the early part of that decade marked by the lS20's Cattle prices had dropped to the bottom and many a rancher mj nu man It la the blmet divlrion the King Ranch mTunder normal! Among old-timers who work with weather conditions ita carrying ca- Burwell are Forflrio Trevino who padty win exceed that of any other division of the ranch Vast area of tho division have been cleared of brush and planted to improved has spent 9) year at Laureles Juan Chino who has been at the division 99 yean Narcisso giolgro (8 years Chon Bllvn 19 years and Tlan Quintanilla 70 year Families like tho Trevino and ramp It Just looked like Charlie was bora to be a cowboy And a cowboy he became Be- grasses It was here that the propagation of Rhodes grass reach 3d ite senith and there wore times Quintanillas have been Laura Mg mentality in experience and in an anatomical way he's Mg enough to take care of himself in Just about any situation Burwell has been head man at the Laureles since isso and during the last SS years he has kept operations at that vast expanse of country running like an assembly lino There have been times when fore ha had arrived at the legal particularly thoae who ran steers age of long pants he was sporting found himself as flat financially chaps like a veteran ana tiding as an unfed tick In a vacated herd with the beat cowboys in the 'pasture Money was scarce and lee mote than half a century Charlie BurwaU ha a spent a lifetime among cowmen and ho has whole Cbtulla country He learned the cow business in an open classroom In the brush and prickly the vagaries of Nature manifested I Ptr th In such ugly phenomena Gamaliels in the country droughts have worked diligently I "is teachers dears plentiful cowboys were unpaid and Mil collectors swarmed all over the country Burwell recalls that In those rugged days ha subsisted in a large part on tortillas and frljoles ha was able to from the generous and kindly women who presided over the mesquite fires that burned before lonely Jacals in the brush that tha grass not only furnished tremendous amounts at grail ng for cattle at Laureles but) also produced hugs crops of hsyiseen end boon a part of almost Soli on the Laureles Division revolutionary changes in the for the moot pert Is heavy and ranching business At Laura Isa he Mack similar to that around Blah-ilo master of Just about any situs-op and on the Chapman Ranch tion that arises Hls raaourcsfulness to upset his big applecart: but 'Joined Rangers Charlie Burwell has been casting) In HIT Burwell Joined the Texas weather eye at South Texas too Rangers and his company was long to let paucity of precipitation 'stationed at HebbronviUe Cattle disturb his siestas He knows from) rustlers bandits smugglers awTA Resourceful Man experience that on countless oc-! other folks who ran afoul of the) But he was alwavs a resourceful rasions he has pulled cows out of law were as good as caught whenman and he didn't let the incon-bog holes and he is fairly ear- Burwell and his Ranger compadresjveniences of th 1920 recession get of the oldest men both in years and He' was brought up that way and tain that history will repeat it- got on their trail He had chasediMm dawn He found a way to re-jin point of service employed by I there is no likelihood that ho will too many salty steers out of the1 coup his depleted finances had the ranch In fact he has as many'ever change which was hewed out of laurels stays with Mm Three Generations Whether It is cleaning a coua- foreman of tho biggest dirt- try of ticks presiding over a cow ion of the ranch Burwell alao csmp in the brush moving a hard has under hls direction one of the of steers or collecting from salt biggest cow outfits on the ranch merchants Charlie Burwell can bs And an J-i TS" KING RANCH ahomeof th famous lOOfh 4 anniversary from ono centenarian "Running and tho Missouri Paeiflc'IM MtM to anothorour boot wishes and congratu-Lines have been neighbors for many lotions on King's outstanding contributions it 'to the development of the cattle industry and tho peat state we both ere so proud to serve Missouri Pacific "too' recently celebrated its "IIRNIRB 1 HARR (PACIFIC X-t av i- w- soeasn.