He had goblets made of silver to award the winning competitors. Agriculture in Corpus Christi brought many wealthy families to the area that helped bring success through the ages. Corpus christi has subsisted mostly on agriculture based in sheep, cotton, and cattle. King ranch subsists mostly of cattle. They have the running w brand. He sent he fenced his land in barbed wire. That stopped transporting of any goods through his land without his control. Since he controlled who was on his land, he also controlled the cotton that could be smelled around the Union Blockade and eventually sold to mexico since they could not get it out of the ports in Corpus Christi to sell for profit. King ranch has been one of the prominent wrenches in the area. They own most of the land between here and mexico which control the lot of the commerce happening during the mid to late 1800s, before the railroads came into town. After the civil war, with all the ranch money being made by king, entity and others,