Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-08
THE CATTLE TRADE.

such information as We have. No one mis-
takes the probable Turn cattle aflairs viii
take snd it j, in the list OF probabilities thai
after this year, The immense Texas c,t; e
drive will be suspended. Tie range Of
country south and wtst OF this point will Tor
some years be held for cattle grazing. The
establishment of cattle camps will yeirly he
increased. Cattle raising can be a. profit
ably engaged in Ksnsss IS in Texss. This
move will be sougbt by those who make
stock cattle raising spe ;ialty. The Texas
drive has lot it. immense prestige and
profit. Cattle raising will be extended in
this section Of country, in New Mexico, and
in States and Territory north OF Kansas.
Young cattle for stock raising, therefore,
will be supplied from points nearer to this
section. Upon the whole, We regard the fu-
turs of the cattle business one Of more i'm.
por,ance and profit To this portion OF Kansas
The busin.s. derived from the cattle trade
Is bein, largely increased, and being about
equally distributed during the year, makes
the business in the aggregate greater than
when the immense herds were driven from
Texas ami for . season OF few month"; flush
times were had. followed by q depression Of
eight months, with utter st,gnaton IN all
branches of business The Kansas City
Commercial indicator rzys OF The Texas
cattle drive:
"Some time since the Indicator stated that
information from reliable sources. and from
the experience of last years drive Of cattle
from Tex A. to X ansa', forced the conclusion
tina, the drive of 1879 would be light. With
the aid OF additional information on the
subject, we zee no reason to change the opin-
ion then expressed.
"'All reports are Of the same character az
TO the prospects of the light drive, and also
a. to the severity Of the weather even in
southwestern Tex.s, from which cattle have
suffered somewhat. Our private information
we have condensed in the remarks above
bu. We find ia the Fort Worth, Texas, Dem
ocrst, OF last week, 3 statement to the effect
that letter received there BY Mr.. Jake
johnson from K. G. Head, q prominent cat.
lie man OF Southern Texas, residing in
Lockhart, Caldwell county, contained in
formsticn 10 the effect that the spring drive
from Southern Texas would not exceed one
hundred and twenty five thousand head.
aud here is smother Bit of information
from the San Antonio, Texas, Express,
in refereace 10. the drive Of 1879. etc, which
will be found of interest: The stock bust
ness, or preparation OF cattle for the Kansas
drive in the spring, appears to be no longer
of that great importance which has invested
j, in former years. Only q few OF the old
and principal drivers are taking the trail
with their herds. Our townsman, Mr.. John
Devices, who has figured so prominently in
this business for a number of years past, il
among those who will not drive Mr..
Devices has not entirely abandoned dealing
in stock, however, having only changed the
manner Of his dealing. He now purchases
young cattle, confines ihem,in his large pas
ture to the southeast, and disposes of Them
to mtn who come among US to purchase,
after their growth. In this way he expects
to make good profits. while ri,ks are not so
grea, ne in driving to K ansas But few cat
tie have died, strange though it may seen,
from the recent very cold weather. Buyers
are nov in our section from Colorado and
Nebrasks, but find it difficult TO obtain such
cattle As they want. They are securing herds,
however, BY purchasing in email lots, at diff
iersos poistr.'