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The French-Ball Ranch Brochure 2018 by Campbell Patton.Pdf LEGAL ACCESS KENEDY RANCH X Encino Pita Camp Headquarters ENTRANCE "Truly a one of a kind protected location". The 20,000 acre Ball Ranch was purchased by John Ball from legendary ranching giant Ed Lasater in 1919. Five years later Ed Lasater sold the adjoining 107,000 acres to Robert J. Kleberg Jr. Trustee for the King Ranch. This became the King Ranch "Encino Division". The King Ranch leased the Ball Ranch for 50 years and integrated it into the Encino Division operations. Subsequently, a metes and bounds legal access easement to the Ball Ranch was recorded in the Kenedy County Deed Records. In 1999, the Santa Fe East Ranch conveyed an easement for Magic Valley Electric to extend electricity to the French/ Ball portion of the ranch. The ranch is in one of the Country's most tightly held areas where ranchland offers a unique blend of quail hunting with terrain suited for bird "KING RANCH CORRIDOR" dogs, yet diverse brush motts are superb for nilgai, turkey, trophy deer, and dove. Natural lakebeds often afford quality duck hunting, and this nature corridor offers incredible wildlife photography opportunities. Wyatt The southern part of The King Ranch Corridor "sand sheet area" is unique in that it offers many natural clay depressions where water stands and is conducive to natural lakebeds. This is "ground zero" in terms of overall wildlife diversity, and is especially perfect natural mesquite mott/ Wyatt quail hunting terrain. Todd Johnson This property is uniquely located to benefit from "big ranch" wildlife populations. There is potential for appreciation due to unique supply and demand factors in this incredibly tightly held area where demand always exceeds supply, and also due its close proximity to the rapidly growing Rio Grande Valley where land sells for a premium. LOCATION The entrance to the Ball Ranch easement is at the guarded King Ranch "Encino gate". From the gate a deeded easement extends along the paved and caliche road to the historic Pita Camp at the Ball Ranch. The 12 mile road through the Encino Division is incredibly picturesque. The ranch has excellent access to two jet airstrips (Falfurrias and Edinburg) with fuel facilities (each is approximately 30 miles from Encino). During quail season, these airports are extremely popular destinations for quail and deer hunting parties from all over the Nation. The King's Inn seafood, Port Mansfield sport fishing, South Padre Island, King Ranch Saddle Shop, McAllen Nuevo Santander Gallery and McAllen International Airport are a short drive away. Guarded gate at King Ranch entrance. "a truly unique LOCATION" Bump-gate at entry to Ball Ranch near Pita Camp. Entrance to French Ranch compound. Entrance to French-Ball Headquarters Typical ranch road on Ball Ranch compound The easement through the King Ranch ends at the Pita Camp gate on the North Central boundary of the original 20,000 acre Ball Ranch. From there, a caliche road extends to the French Ball Ranch and all weather caliche roads have been built at great expense throughout the French-Ball Ranch. Access from Highway 281, after entering the King Ranch, crosses only one gate (a bump-gate) in route to the French-Ball headquarters. HISTORY In the 1700's, the King of Spain, acting through the Viceroy in Mexico City, appointed Colonel Jose de Escandón to oversee settlement of "Colonia de la Costa del Seno Mexicano" (the remote region on both sides of the Rio Grande), in an attempt to settle Spain's New World holdings. Escandón, a diplomat of Spanish origin, was well known for his ability to trade with the hostile native Indians and was familiar with the untamed land he named "Nuevo Santander" (after the province in Spain where he was born). His plan called for the region to be divided into large "land grants" which were claimed by influential families. In 1821, the Mexican War for Independece ended Spanish control over the region and in 1824, the Mexican government made provision for additional grants not covered by the Escandón Plan. In 1833 (three years before the Battle of the Alamo), the 22,140 acre The Santa Quintería Mexican Land Grant was granted to Ramon Cabazos Guerra. One year later the 15,532 acre El Alazán Grant was conveyed by "testimonio" to Maria Antonia Garza y Garza. In 1850, after much research, both the Quintería and Alazán Grants original Mexican Land Grant titles or "testimonios" were confirmed by the Texas legislation after evidence was presented to the Bourland and Miller Commission. Both Grants are on file with the Texas General Land office. These tracts were in the heart of what were to become the "Wild Horse Desert" which played a significant role in the transformation of America. It was also a vast unsettled land where cattle Kings would be "defined". These Grants were to become the site of the Historic Ball Ranch. After the Treaty of Velasco, the area between the Nueces and the Rio Grande was a source of great dispute. It was both a buffer and a battlefield. It wasn't México! It wasn't the States, and it wasn't exactly Texas. Rather, it was a Kingdom of its own, a sort of buffer between two nations which became known as the "Nueces Strip". The Mexicans claimed that Santa Ana was confused when he gave it up because he had crossed the Rio Grande near Presidio and didn't realize that the Rio Grande (Río Bravo de Norte) dipped so far south, President Polk seized the territorial dispute over " The Nueces Strip" as an opportunity to increase the borders of the U.S. from "sea to sea". In 1845, as soon as Texas joined the Union, Polk dispatched troops to the region and declared war on Mexico. After battles outside Monterrey in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican War; resulting in Mexico relinquishing land which now comprises one third of the U.S., an event that started over a fight for the sparsely populated "Nueces Strip", where the Alazan and the Santa Quintería Grants were situated. Map of Nueva Santander Ancient maps refer to the sandy land of South Texas as the "Wild Horse Desert" or "El Desierto de Muerto" because the vast, untamed land was occupied only by wild horses, Indians, "bandidos" and "cattle rustlers". The trails across the area were used by the Confederacy to bypass the blockade of northern ports with wagon loads of cotton transported to the Rio Grande, then taken downriver by steamboat to Bagdad, Mexico (at the mouth of the Rio Grande) where the cotton was shipped to Europe. At the same time salt shipments from Sal Del Rey were moved northward through Goliad on the road through the Wild Horse Dessert to supply salt for the Confederacy (which was traded for weapons). The ancient roads also became the origination points of the Chisolm trail where cattle were driven north to capitalize on higher prices following the civil war. Steamboat Captains' Richard King and Mifflin Kenedy had come to the mouth of the Rio Grande where in the mid 1800's they prospered from their 26 river boats on the Rio Grande. They began buying up land grants in the Wild Cattle Kings were born! Horse Dessert in 1852. The age of "Cattle Kings" was born, such as Captain Richard King, Mifflin Kennedy, Dillard Captain Richard King & steamboat and Fant, Robert and Jeremiah Driscoll, John B. Armstrong, Captain A.C. Jones and Edward Cunningham Lasater who ranching partner Mifflin Kenedy. assembled ranching empires by acquiring massive Spanish and Mexican Grants from heirs from the original Grantees. Except for the Texas Rangers, South Texas was untamed and over run with Indians and rustlers. Following the murder by savage Indians of the owner of Santa Gertrudis Grant, Captain King purchased the grant which became the King Ranch headquarters and other future cattle Kings joined the fray. Captain King was encouraged by his friend General Robert E. Lee, of the confederacy, after Lee crossed the Wild Horse Dessert and also saw its future. Into this wild and wooly, raw, untamed and unfenced land came one Edward Cunningham Lasater; later to become known throughout the nation as "El Colorado de los Olmos". Lasater's story is virtually unequalled among the empire builders who tamed the Wild Nueces Strip. Cattle Kings, Captain Richard King & Mifflin Kenedy operated 26 steamboats on the Rio Grande. Captain King, Mifflin Kenedy, and Dillard Fant had already amassed great ranches in the "Nueces Strip" but were unable to acquire some of the most coveted Edward Cunningham Lasater Grants. "El Colorado de Los Olmos" In 1894, only one year after enduring the disastrous cattle market crash which almost wiped him out, Ed Lasater decided it was his time to make a fortune. He had crisscrossed South Texas buying cattle and believed this last frontier area was ripe for profitable cattle ranching. He had accumulated credit and a reputation for honesty and the young entrepreneur was ready to try again. Ed Lasater rode onto a white hill the Spaniards called "Loma Blanca" and halted his horse. He looked to the southwest across a vast prairie. He knew how quickly that sandy land could blossom with a little rain. From that prominent rise, he could see the future, and he was excited. Lasater began buying land with his credit and cattle proceeds until his Edward Cunningham Lasater ranch was half the size of Rhode Island. He contracted "Empire Builder" over 30,000 head of cattle from which he made a handsome profit. The "L-brand" was placed on thousands of cattle. A young man in a hurry, he bought everything that King, kenedy, and Fant could not acquire, extending his empire southward into the Santa Quintería and El Alazan Land Grants.
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