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Mexico, had been donated by Mr. and Mrs. L. Bascom Cox of Ozona.
The headquarters office building from the Matador Land and Cattle
Company, donated by the present owners of the headquarters and the
Matador Brand, was dedicated by Mr. Roy Fox, British consul general
in Houston, Texas, unveiling a black walnut tree. Members of the Fred
Koch family and representatives of the present Matador Ranches assisted.
A cabin from the Hedwig Hill Ranch, established in the 185os near the
Llano River by German immigrant Luis Martin, was dedicated by Dr.
H. W. Bornemann, German consul general in Houston, Texas, unveiling
a Bavarian pine. The El Capote Cabin, built on the Guadalupe River
near Gonzales in the early I83os by Count Jos6 de la Baume, was dedicated
by the Honorable Louis Vorms, French consul general in Houston, Texas,
unveiling some grape vines similar to those which once grew by this cabin
on the Guadalupe.
The opening of the site for the future Spanish Compound was particular-
ly noteworthy. A display is planned for the Compound, which will illustrate
the early Spanish colonial ranching which developed in Texas a century
before the first nonhispanic settlers began to drift into the region. The
Compound site was marked by the unveiling of a Spanish oak by Dr. Erik
I. Martel, Spanish consul general in Houston, Texas.
To honor the dedication, Charles A. Schreiner III, trailed in a herd of
Longhorn cattle from San Antonio, to add authenticity "of hoof and horn
to the Ranching Heritage Center." Mr. Schreiner and other descendants
of early trail drivers reenacted a scene which occurred at the end of many
old trail drives: the formal handing over of the tally book by the trail
boss to the new owners of the herd.
Dale Robertson served as master of ceremonies for the dedication. Speak-
ers were Dr. Glenn E. Barnett; Charles G. Scruggs (member of the Board
of Regents of Texas Tech University and editor of the Progressive Farmer
magazine); Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson; and Dr. Grover E. Murray (presi-
dent of Texas Tech). Many distinguished guests were also present.
The ceremony concluded, appropriately, with a barbecue supper and a
square dance for participants and audience, attending from thirty-five
states and eleven foreign countries.
Away off in the Southwest it's easy to dismiss proposed legislation in
Washington as something too far away to matter to most of us, unless it
hinges on taxation or abortion or some other national issue that comes into
every home. But a lot of currents and undercurrents with historical and
genealogical impact have been at work in Congress during 1976. Congress-
man Charles Wilson sponsored a bill, H.R. 2556, which would effectively219
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