. Pleasant     |37
    Maury   |Southport Phos. Co.                    |Mt. Pleasant     |38
    Hickman |Amer. Cot. Oil Co.                     |New York         |39
    Lewis   |Big Swan Phos. Co.                     |Mt. Pleasant     |40
    Hickman |Ruhm & Wheeler                         |Mt. Pleasant     |41
    Hickman |Killebrew, Ruhm & Co.                  |Mt. Pleasant     |42
    Perry   |Perry Phos. Co.                        |Columbia         |43
    Decatur |Beech River Phos. Co.                  |Nashville        |44
    Lewis   |Charleston M. & Mfg. Co.               |Mt. Pleasant     |45
    --------+---------------------------------------+-----------------+
    +-----------------+-------------------+-------------
    |                 |     Holdings.     | Character of
    |  Name of Tract  +-----------+-------+   mining:
    |    or Mine      |    How    |No. of | Underground
    |                 |    Held   | Acres | or surface.
    +-----------------+-----------+-------+-------------
   1| Caldwell        |    Fee    |    65 | Surface.
   2| Gregory         |    Fee    |   125 | Both.
   3| Ratliff         |    Fee    |   300 | Both.
   4| Laverick        |    Fee    | 2,280 | Under’gr’d.
   5| Brown           |    Fee    |    50 | Surface.
   6| Wiss            |   Lease   |    40 | Both.
   7| Eason           |    Fee    |    60 | Both.
   8| Fogg            |   Lease   |   200 | Under’gr’d.
   9| McGill          |   Lease   |   500 | Both.
  10| Jameson         |           |       | Surface.
  11| Mt. Pleasant    |           |       | Surface.
  12| Blue Grass      |   Lease   | 1,000 | Surface.
  13| Dawson          |           |       | Surface.
  14| Kittrell        |   Lease   |   125 | Surface.
  15| Harris          |           |       | Surface.
  16| Long            |    Fee    |   140 | Surface.
  17| Arrow           |    Fee    |   690 | Surface.
  18| Howard          |    Fee    |   182 | Surface.
  19| McMeen          |    Fee    |   540 | Surface.
  20| Ridley          |    Fee    |   319 | Surface.
  21| Columbian       |    Fee    |    60 | Surface.
  22| Battle          |    Fee    |    84 | Surface.
  23| Tenn. Phos. Co. |    Fee    | 1,200 | Surface.
  24| Solita          |    Fee    |   110 | Surface.
  25| Satterfield     |    Fee    |   275 | Surface.
  26| Moore           |    Fee    |   264 | Surface.
  27| Petrified       |    Fee    |   220 | Surface.
  28| Bailey          |   Lease   |   361 | Surface.
  29| Douglass        |    Fee    |   250 | Surface.
  30| Watkins         |    Fee    |   250 | Surface.
  31| Sumner Phos. Co.|    Fee    | 1,500 | Surface.
  32| Guthrie         |    Fee    |   321 | Surface.
  33| Goodloe         |    Fee    |    40 | Surface.
  34| Sedberry        |    Fee    |   130 | Surface.
  35| Peery           |    Fee    | 7,000 | Under’gr’d.
  36| American        |    Fee    | 2,500 | Surface.
  37| Harlan          |Lease & Fee| 1,000 | Surface.
  38| Southport       |    Fee    |   943 | Surface.
  39| Gilmer          |    Fee    |   200 | Both.
  40| Walker          |    Fee    |   600 | Under’gr’d.
  41| Harvill         |    Fee    |   736 | Under’gr’d.
  42| Rochell         |    Fee    |   541 | Both.
  43| Tom’s Creek     |    Fee    |   500 | Under’gr’d.
  44| Parsons         |    Fee    | 1,000 | Surface.
  45| Mayfield        |    Fee    |   500 | Under’gr’d.
  --+-----------------+-----------+-------+-------------


A History of the Hals

BY JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE


CHAPTER II.

THE PACER’S FAST DEVELOPMENT.

    De Record’s Gwine Down.

    De pat’idge is in de cohn-field, his courtin’ days am pas’,
    He am waitin’ fur de hunter wid his gun and whiky flas’,
    De squirl’s in de hickernut, de shell am droppin’ ’roun’,
    But de pacer’s still de racer, and
                                de
                                  record’s
                                    gwine
                                      down!

    De coon am up de white-oak, an’ de price er powder’s riz,
    He am layin’ up de coon-grease dat am good fur rheumatiz.
    De ’possum’s way up yonder whar de wild grape’s turnin’ brown,
    But de pacer holds de market, and
                              he
                                keeps
                                  dat
                                    record
                                      down!

    Oh, ebery thing am risin’, and’ hog-meat’s in de sky,
    E’en de chickens got de panic an’ hev gone to roostin’ high!
    De onliest thing dat’s fallin’—an it makes de trotter frown—
    Am de pacin’ race-horse record, and
                              dat
                                keeps
                                  on
                                    gwine
                                      down!

    OLD WASH.

The achievements and development of the pacer in the past ten or fifteen
years, since the advent of the Hals, and the swift tribe of trotting-bred
pacers, has been so marked and so great that a special chapter is needed
for its explanation. The old “side-wheeler” has gone—the new, beautifully
gaited, true striding pacing race horse has taken his place. No other
feature of a race meeting brings out the crowd and the enthusiasm equal
to the free-for-all pace. Never before had such races been witnessed
as those first seen in the days of the Big Four—the queen of which was
Mattie Hunter 2:12½, the first great Hal mare to attract the attention
of the world. She was the star of the Big Four, the others being Blind
Tom, Lucy and Rowdy Boy. Later, some of the great free-for-allers were
Little Brown Jug, Brown Hal, Hal Pointer, Robert J, Direct, Joe Patchen,
John R Gentry and many others whose names will be readily remembered by
every horseman. The very mention of these names brings a thrill to the
heart as, toward the last of the century, Robert J, John R. Gentry and
Joe Patchen and Star Pointer began to bring the pacing record to the
two-minute mark. This was first done by Star Pointer, an inbred Hal,
crossed again and again in the thoroughbred blood which, undoubtedly,
gave to the Hals the staying power so characteristic of the family. And
so, looking back, the following article, written by Trotwood December 29,
1892, seems prophetic—that is, if there were such a thing as prophecy.
But, alas, there is not, for prophecy is merely another name for the
cause of the future as foreseen in the present’s effect. And though this
was written thirteen years ago, it is embodied into this history, as
fitting so well the present:

“There can no longer be any doubt that the pacer, as a future product on
the light harness race course, will be a still stronger factor than he
is to-day. Even if desired, it is now not possible to eliminate him from
the light harness breeding world. He has come to stay. It matters not
to us whether the honest, but sturdy, rascal can trace his ancestors to
Marsh’s five-toed orohippos, weighing about forty pounds, and which had
all he could do to keep out of the way of Darwin’s “missing link,” and
thus save himself from