BABE – 26 year old mule living testimony of Emerson Hough’s foresight
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Reprinted with permission of the San Antonio Express-News
BABE – 26 Year Old Mule Living Testimony
of Emerson Hough’s Foresight
Sorrel Quadruped He Selected 21 Years Ago as a Good
One Will Now Go Into Honorable Retirement in
Fields of Clover or Something as Good— Noted
Author, Great Admirer of San Antonio, Got Much
Inspiration While Living on C. A. Goeth's Farm
EMERSON HOUGH, who painted word pictures of the rapidly disappearing
old West, and who died the other day in an Evanston, 111., hospital at the height
of his career, was a believer in San Antonio, and, in mules.
Twenty-one years ago when he came to San Antonio on one of his periodical
visits he joined his friends, C. A. Goeth, Gen. Oscar Guessaz
and Rolla Heikes in the purchase of what is now the Goeth farm lying on
the banks of the San Antonio River, south of the city. The plan was to found
a sort of sportsman's paradise, but all their good intentions did not become realities. So they decided to become farmers — at long range.