Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-12-10

Taiss = iiiils rern and wheat, frea ca
psrisnessia The forests sf Tennessee h
kasu ihss Il .oall take the three score
snd.ten.yesrss VI hsiarsl llfsi0 elssr aUay
The trees aAd scar Oat the sianPs, AAd
net f.Heyinf the deoA Of hard labor fsi
lifs, 10 ssId HE Had, ALd, siih t1 TsNsu
saEs and nine breed H,a,ts. larnsl hi'
! fee touarJ The ssliing san ani iae grass
Tssians of ibs bTalls. Less iAan = score
Of ysars hsFs PASSED, sui he has IlOlj
head of eal,.e aud as naAy aeFss ~ lsnd.
Ilillsaa u abeai 40 years Old, sis feet ia
hiFhi, arL hF0ai-shealdersdi has aa hon-
est snu.barat face, siih = sqaare, arm.ssi
under jsH, whleh q, looked AZ H.
Ih0usLs VAS shut q liiils hFiheT. gifiag
LiIa more dslsrninsd look ihaa 10 ssli.d
Otherwise. bai for doIsa er % encounters
with The hsTee aud Unsuitable C0msnehes,
who knes Hiiisoa ahi his old long mnrs'e-
losiing rife we'll, ani now know hlm With
bic Winchester, have entn ~OaIeFe
whs, they thought wLsn they pelnosi "a
hln With hls new " inchesiyr, sud received
ten shots Ia a minute Instead u one Ia
aVe mlnnies They must have thought the
oil rife bewliehesl, Al any rate. they viii
gl,e Lim a vide berth. uhless they can
creep up0n lin "a the hunler Loss upon
tie 6lflllo bd0 he does not dare 10 iase.--
Mr. Iihteon 10 establishing n rancho on
the South Plattee, near old Fort Morgan,
for use AZ his general Northern hsAlquir-
ters. lie will wiaIer 1000 cattle there
this year, aud brlns 1000 head there Zoe
sale next seasoa. s.n
Johu Chisholm, on the coneho river, Is
another OF the cattle raissrs Anl drivers OF
orihwesteru Texas, who carries on the
business on q prineely scale. aud whose
eSperienee IL mueh like that of Hitis,n. -
or the thousands of owners Of 3,s00, 900
head Of cattle 10 Texas, not 100 CON mrncei
with large means. They hsvs bnilt then
selves up from spall beginnings, Ike Hit
son aud Chisholm.
The surpius stock Is disposed Of by
packing, by shipping by steamer TO the
Cuff States, by driving due North 10 Abb.
lene, Kansas, and Schuyler, Nebraska, and
the northwestern route 10 the Pecos river,
where tho royes divide, some going TO
Arizona anl California BY tho southern
route; the greater number, however, keep
ing n northern course up the Pecos river TO
tho Arkansas river, crossing at and above
Benrs old fort, aud thence along tho cas-.
tern base OF The mountains, through Colo.
ralo and across the Black Hills, to The
trion Pacific Railroad, and on 10 tho
great valleys and markets OF Wyoming,
Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, aud the
Pacific States. The beevcs ore selected
out before the herds leave the Black Hills
west. II fat, they nre Mt cnce shipped for
Chicago and New York; IL thin, they are
left ia the valleys OF Colorado Wyoming
and Nebraska to fstien.
The amount OF money isnlled by bank
ers along the base OF the mountains from
Cheyenne to Trinidad is enormous. have
no data from which 10 calculate the
amount. but IL cannot be less than ST., ,2j0,-
000,. Every settler wh9 comes into any of
,hese mountain, territories, every mine
that 10 opened, every Indian Tho goes OH
to reserves and is fed, every soldier VINO is
brough, into tho country, creates an addi.
tional demand for stock cattle and beef
As astounding rs these figures may seem,
the supply has not been nearly adequate
10 pcet tho demand. Great preparations
sr: Eakiaz in fouhWestern Texas TO
gather together herds which ia numbers
have not been heard Of before.
Abilene has been ,L1 great market fhis
year. At that place the. receipts OF cattle
have reached the enormous figures Of 200,-
000 head. Tie shipments for the month of
September amounted to 5000 head, or
8, 333 car loads, or III carloads per day,
for the great corn fields oF Iowa, Missouri,
end Illinois. 1t is anticipated that the
shipments will reach 5000 in Cciober.--
This great cattle traic a, Abilene, which
haS assumed such gigantic proportions,
was initiated in 1857, and has therefore
conn,ed only four seasons. In 1867, 10000
head of stock were received; in 1868,
l25, 1000; in 1862, $50, 900 in 1870, 20o,-
600. In 1869, one bank alone IN Kansas
City handled 100000 cattle money, The
cstile driven and sold here are from the
eastern part of the State, from the Rio
Grande Il Tie Red ltcrs. At Schuyler,
this year, whiLh was an experiment only.
1000 critic were sold. The FIRST National
Dall> Of Omaha haniled S500,0O0 in CON
sequence Of this cattle business. am in
formed by those who know hat 40 900 more
cnttle could have been sold ifthey had
been at Schuyer. Next year it is hoped
the supply win reach 100000, ms the de-
mand for Ncbrasta, Iowa, northwestern
Minneseia and Dakota, win certainly re.
dIire that number. Hf