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From: "Archibald Hill" <> (by way of "B.J. Smothers" <>)
Subject: Re: [ALDALLAS-L] Camels in Dallas County
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 15:52:23 -0400


Found this article very interesting...thank you for sharing it. Was
somewhat interested in B. M. Woolsey, Esq. Can anyone tell me a little
about him? Thanks, Katherine
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Subject: [ALDALLAS-L] Camels in Dallas County


I found the following articles in old issues of the Montgomery Mail
(newspaper). It is an amusing but true item.
Larry E. Caver, Jr.


CAMELS IN DALLAS COUNTY

We have been informed that it is the intention of Capt. J. A. MACHODO, who
had been engaged for several years in importing camels to the United States,
to send, in a short time, some three or four camels to our countryman, B.M.
WOOLSEY, who has consented to take them, and ascertain practically if the
camel is really adapted to the wants of our section of the country. Mr.
WOOLSEY, we learn, will receive these animals in the course of 10 or 15
days,
and will make such experiments with them as will prove their adaptation to
our farming pursuits. There are quite a number of gentlemen in our vicinity
who have been anxious to test the uses of the camel, and that this may be
done, Capt. MACKODO has consented that Mr. WOOLSEY may make the test, so in
case they prove to be what they are represented, he can furnish any number
to
our planting friendsâ?¦ Selma Sentinel

Source:
Montgomery Daily Mail, April 15, 1859 edition


CAMELS IN MONTGOMERY

Mrs. Watson's Camels- Read the letter, in another column, of Benjamin M.
WOOLSEY, Esq., of Dallas, in regard to Mrs. WATSON's Camels; as also the
advertisement of this lady, who intends having a Grand Camel Plowing match
next Monday, on a vacant lot near the Capitol, to test the capacities of the
camel. We are requested to state by Mrs. WATSON, that after the test of the
capacities of the camels on Monday, in plowing and drawing, they will be
offered for sale on Tuesday. Price from $300 to $500.

Source:
Montgomery Daily Mail, December 9, 1859 edition


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