Warren, the inventor of Featherbone, and whose money paid for his son’s ranching ventures, died in 1919.
As a result, the Warren ranch and farm empire eventually grew to include more than a half million acres and 25,000 cattle on its three ranches at Muleshoe, in southern New Mexico, and in Mexico.Į.K. However, because cattle could be produced in Mexico at half the cost of American cattle, Warren rode out the revolution and made the ranch profitable, in spite of thievery and bribery. The Warren foreman in Mexico, Bunk Spencer, was captured and held for ransom six times before being murdered. When revolution broke out in Mexico in 1910, Warren soon found himself caught between warring sides, and he had to pay bribes to both the government and revolutionaries, including Pancho Villa. As a result, Warren had begun selling land to farmers, and Bailey County grew rapidly, with its population increasing from 500 to more than 5,000 in the 1920s.īut not all of the Warren investment worked out as smoothly as it did in Texas. The arrival of the railroad spurred rising land values, and, with the outbreak of World War I, high cotton prices.
By 1913, when the Santa Fe built its so-called “Coleman cut-off” from Coleman to Farwell to connect with its main line, Warren allowed the railroad to designate the new town being built at the site of the ranch’s loading pens as Muleshoe. In all likelihood, the resemblance of the brand used by the Johnsons and Warren’s U Bar were close enough to apply the commonality of a muleshoe to be the name of the enlarged Texas ranch. Subsequently he applied that brand to all his herds. Then, in 1909, Charlie Warren acquired a ranch in Mexico whose cattle bore the U Bar (U-) brand. The Warren purchase of the Johnson Ranch in Bailey and adjoining counties more than doubled their holdings, and through subsequent leases and purchases, their ranch grew to more than 150,000 acres, covering all of northern Bailey County and southern Parmer County.
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