Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-13
TEXAS TOPICS.
a Prominent Stock Mans Views as
to the "Lone Star State'I---
ne Cattle Trade Assuming
Gigantic PronortioDe

y Prominent Stock Mans Views q
the Lone Star State".--
me Cattle Trade Assuming
Gigantic Proportions.
ssdAlla Democrat. March u.
Mr. Geo. Il. Yeater, the well-know1
soocK-map, has just returned from
Two months visit to Texas. A report
er Oh the Democrat had a brief con
Nersatlon with him yesterday, in which
some interesting information regard
ing affairs in Texas was impaired.
How are times in the Lone Stal
state at present, Mr.. YeaterT queried
the scribe.
"They have been very favorable all
winter" he replied. Money has been
moderately plentiful, and heard little
complaint. Crops are looking very
fine. a big crop of cotton will be
planted, and a prosperous year is ex-
pected in Texas"
"How is the cattle trader"
This question struck Mr.. Yeater
right where he was at home. at is
booming" said he with enthusiasm.
Seattle are In fine condition, and the
prices are higher than have been known
there for years. The journey north
ward has begun already, thousands
upon thousands of cattle being al
ready on the trial. This is four weeks
earlier than the drive usually COM
mences. All big droves except three
have been sold. The cattle trade is
becoming mammoth interest in Tex
as, and is proving a business than
which none Is more profitable"
"Have you established a ranch in
Texas as yetP"
"No, but expect to establish a
ranch sixty miles west Of San An
tonic, next fall. 1 have purchased a
drove of three and four-year-old steers,
which l will drive to the dead line
right away"
Can you furnish any details Of the
cattle trade in Texas ?"
Eyes, it might be Of interest to the
readers of the Democrat that George
Casey and Bronaugh & Co., well
known in this section, have bought a
big ranch on the Colorado river, a
hundred miles above Austin. They
paid $4,000 for it, and will brand
about 5000 calves this year."
'Col. Ellison, of San Marcas. will
drive $4,000 head of cattle to Dodge
City, Kas. Major Mayberry, Kansas
City contractor, will drive 10000 head
to Dodge City. Mr.. Blocher, of Aus
tin, will drive 10000 head to Chey
enne. Mr.. Lighted, of Gonzales, will
drive the enormous number of $4,000
cattle to Colorado. Mai. Smith and
Capt. Elliott, of Springfield, FL, stock
contractors, will drive 10000 cattle tt
Dodge City. Mr.. Sol, of Austin, Ia:
1000 head on the trail.
"What prices are cattle bringing in
Texas ?"
"The best figures which have pre-
vailed for long time are being paiC
there now. Yearlings bring from SIC
to $l2 AMI twoyear-olds from 1926
to 1880.
al will tell you something that may
seem incredible, but which is never
theless true" continued Mr.. Yeater
"The other day Driscoll and Day, the
Austin stock men, purchased from the
Mexican government a territory Of
land in Old Mexico, a million and {
half acres in extent. They paid sever
and a half cents an acre for the land
thus securing territory of 2 ,344 squar,
miles for I'll $50. They will establish
an immense cattle ranch upon il
Capt. Hillard, formerly of st. Louis
and we'll known here, has bought So,
600 acres, sixty miles west of Sal
Antonio, at fifty-nve cents an acre, TO
cattle ranch. These facts will shov
the extent of the cattle trade in Texas
and the impetus which has recent,
been impaired to it."
"Having been at Austin recently
MIR. Yeater, you probably know wheth
er work has commenced on the new
capitol?"
Eyes, when / was there the othe
day the ground was being broken 70
the foundation. Illinois parties hav
taken the contract to build the edihce
their compensation being S,000,00t
acres of Texas land. The contractor
are now building narrow gauge rail
way from Austin to Burnett, a distanc
of sixty miles. for the purpose of con
Veying stone from the quarries nea
Burnett, in which the finest materia
abosnds. The road has already beer
completed distance of forty miles
and trains are running over it."
Mr.. Yeater was enthusiastic in hi
praise of Texas, and is confident tina
its destiny is brighter than that of an,
other state in the union.
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