Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 41
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 12, 1907
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Marlin Horse and Mule Market.
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Marlin is a horse and mule market. It is a well known fact that during the
past two years Marlin has fast become one of the largest retail horse and mule
markets in the country as well quite a wholesale market, as a number of regular
horse and mule dealers from Waco, Temple, Houston, Galveston, Fort Worth and
other towns have been buying a number of good horses and mules in Marlin.
The reason of this is that they get a better grade of stock here for less money
than most any other market in the country. To show that both the mules
sold and the buyers who buy them are good, a large number of mules have been
sold on time and not a single one has been taken back. They have been
either making cotton to pay for them for themselves or sold for as much and in
most cases more than they cost. Conyers says that he can name over 100
mules that he sold last year, that have sold from $10 to $65 more than they
cost--the ones that he sold them and this is what it takes to make a horse and
mule market. Marlin should be the central point for horses and mules in
this section, as she has another dealer now who will handle good horses and
mules besides Conyers, who has arranged to feed most of his stock at his hog
feeding pens near town, and this will less the feed bill on them; it will no
doubt be to the interest of everyone in 50 miles of Marlin, to come to Marlin to
buy their horses and mules.
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