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Barbed wire for agriculture use is typically double-strand 12 + 1 ⁄ 2-gauge, zinc-coated (galvanized) steel and comes in rolls of 400 m (1,320 ft) length. Barbed wire is usually placed on the inner (pasture) side of the posts. Where a fence runs between two pastures livestock could be with the wire on the outside or on both sides of the fence.
Ranchers in the west found barbed wire fencing useful and much needed. As demand rose sharply, the company expanded, reorganized and merged and a successful Ellwood began construction on his Victorian mansion, the Ellwood House. [2] In 1881, Ellwood Manufacturing became Superior Barbed Wire Company under an expansion and reorganization plan.
Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum website 35°13′53″N 100°35′50″W / 35.2315°N 100.5973°W / 35.2315; -100 This Texas museum-related article is a stub .
The business promoter "Bet a Million" Gates chose San Antonio to demonstrate the value of his barbed wire in the herding of cattle. In 1876 he fenced off Alamo Plaza with the new invention and had cowboys drive a herd of cattle into the wire. When the wire held the cattle, many of the ranchers in attendance quickly placed orders for the new ...
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I. Barbed-Wire Fence-Makers 1. Threshold of Promise 2. Prelude to 1874 3. Incident at De Kalb 4. "Prior-Use" Fences 5. Promoting Barbed Wire 6. Moonshine and Monopoly 7. Patent Litigation 8. Barbed-Wire Barons. II. Barbed-Wire Fence-Builders 9. "This Cockeyed World of Cattle Fold" 10. "The Big Die-up" 11. "King of the Coasters" and Brother Jon 12.
The Texas government has installed a third barbed wire barrier along the Río Bravo (also known as the Río Grande) on the México border, despite criticism from the Mexican government and the ...
John Warne Gates (May 18, 1855 – August 9, 1911), also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist and gambler. He was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire.