Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-06-09
INTERESTING FACTS PERTAIN
ING TO THE TEXAS CAT
TIE DRIVE.

TIE DRIVE.
The Kansas City Commercial indicator
publishes the following letter concerning thu
Texas Cattle Drive. The writer is = gentle
,aan for years connected with the Te1ss cat
tie trade and we'll known 10 we-tern stock
men. The letter contains more information
of value in reference to the Texas catil'
drive this year than has been yet published
The number which will be driven north, thu
prices paid for cattle in Texss, this year snt
last, and the number which has been con-
traciea at certain price,, all comprise tha
class Of informstiou. which those interestet
in the western live stock trade are desirou'
Of knowing.
II will be observed th.t there is quite ~
advance in the prices paid for cattle this yea
over those paid last year, and that very lev
cows and one and two year old heifes fgurs
in this years drive.
COLEMAN, Texas, May 81, 1871 some
time since got up what, think, was fair
estimate for what lie usually called the Kan
sss cattle drive from this state. 1t footed UP
near 235 900 head; out Of this number there
are from 10000 70 10000 head that arr
either being driven direct 10 ranches, or pre-.
viously contracted or sold, which leaves only
$4,000 to 10000 Kansas or Territorial cattle
for sale. (This does not include the beei
drive to Caldwell or Hunnewell for ship.
meut.) The one and two year old cattle and
cows which are now being driven under con
tract have been sold at 80 to $40 for heifsI
and steer yearlings. Sl3 to ga for heifel
AID steer two-year olds, and Sl4 for cows
which is above last years prices on an aver
age. Last year in those markets ones ranged
from IS to $40, while twos and cows ranged
from SIl.50 to Sl4.50, which you will zee il
rather a light advance over last year's aver
age prices, while here in Texas ones have
gone to 81 to s. and twos $40 to $ll, agains
$3.50 to So and IS to 50 last year, while
cows have gone from IS TO Sll since LAS
year here at home. The consequence is very
few COVE, as slso one and two yesr-old heif
ers, figure IN this years drive. Almost al
drovers expect 10 realize $40 TO $l4 for theil
ones and twos, while If there is any demand
whatever for COWS they will 60 to tl5 rs thu
drive is principally one and two-year OLD
eteers. We have had an abundance Of rain
and grass is excellent, and cattle en- route ar
doing splendid, while the class Of cattle be
ing driven is usually over an average in botl
flesh and growth, and will reach market il
6ne ehape, though great many will be lat
as cattle scattered terribly during the verl
severe storms Of last winter. herewith adj
few Of the drovers who have conti acted al
or part Of the drive and the figures st vhicl
they have been contracted:
IF. Ellison, seven thousand, ones,
twos and cows........- .--.....-$9.0O(dlS.O(
Mitchell & PresDall, two thous-
and, ones and twos.... -. o.50@l3. 81
Lytte, Mcdaniel & Co., seven
thousand, ones and .wos....... 9.O09l3.Ot
D.H&J.W. Snyder. Eve thou
sand, ones and twos. 0.O0(9 4.0(
DH.& J.WSnyder, fifteen hun
dred, 2-year old heifer.
OH. 81. Snyder, fifteen hun
dred COWS 1890. .......-. ...--..-... --l9.W
Houston & Jefiries, twenty
hundred, ones and twos. ........ 10000 l4.0'
These are the principal sales l know Of
none being made for less figures except on
gmall lot on Q short drive. h.
Mr.. Bennyworth's Pioneer Sugar Factory