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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