The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-01-19
LIVE STOCK.

THE cattle market in this city is still short
of demand, butchering stock particularly
so. There is better supply of hogs, but
the pens are noticeably bare of sheep. Two
hundred head of hogs were shipped from
this city to-day to the packing house in
Fort Worth.
The New York Drovers Journal of the
18th gives the receipts at 1900 head;
market closed firm and higher, with an
early clearance; very poor to very good
steers sold ut $3.50 to .$ll.75; general sales,
| 5000 to SLIPS; no strictly prime or extra
steers offered; exporters used thirty car
loads; no shipments to-day; tomorrow
steamers take 420 head live cattle, $40 quar-
tiers beef, 100 carcasses mutton.
Bismarck Tribune: 1t must needs be a
mild winter when sheep can be shipped
out fear of cold or blockades. Tues
day five thousand passed through
this city, and five thousand more
will be shipped Sunday from Miles City.
They are from the Brandenburg rancho, on
Tongue river, and are conclusive evidence
of the superiority of that section as sheep
raising district.
DURING the year 1881 there were 1, 547,-
49S cattle, including calves, received at Chi
cago, against 49,, AL cattle and calves in
1880. These figures show gain of 165,C2l
head of cattle for the past over all previous
years, which is certainly grand gain when
it is remembered that the receipts of 1880
were the largest then on record. Chicago s
gain has been almost wholly in Texas and
Northern range cattle, as the receipts OF
both corn-fed cattle and Eastern dairy
calves were very much less than during the
previous year. Receipts of cattle from the
plains were beyond the expectations of the
most sanguine. There were 145, 40 more
Texas and Northern range cattle received
here last year than in $780, there being an in
crease of 81, 100 in Through" Texans and
5000 head of "wintered' Texans and north
ern ranges. AS prices for range cattle were
$7@S12 per head higher than during the
previous year, it will be seen that Texas
and Northern ranchmen received over
$3,000O00 more for the grass cattle marketed
at Chicago than during the year 1880.
Had there been only the same number of
range cattle received in the two years, the
receipts would have sold for about $780,
600 more than theprices got in 1850. When
did the ranchmcn experience more severe
winter than the one of 1SS0-Sl or when was
there ever such a market as the one of
1881 Among the oldest ranchers there are
some who can look back into the tifties and
and answer the first question without much
difficulty, but the latter is lone too many
for all
A Texas cattle-ranger, owning about
5000 head, asked Morgan, the New York
banker, to lend him some money on them,
so that he might increase his stock. He
told the banker how much the cattle were
worth; how they dou bled in value every
five years, and made large annual profit
but when he told Morgan that they didn't
have any fences in Texas, he exclaimed IN =
tone of holy horror: mo fences Why
good Lord, young man, I'd as soon take
mortgage on a school of Goldfish off the
banks of Newfoundland"
To-DAY's QUOTATIONS.
CATTLE-Four years, s2i@27; three years, s14@
p: two years. sl2@l5 one year, S8Gl2.
Barn cows Sl5@22; stockers, Sl2@25 mich
cows and calves Sl5@25 springers, Sl5G25
HoRsEs-Ponics Sl0a30 farm stock 100000
harness livery, S75@l25; fancy GIness S125@
1856: harness spans, S350@500.
MULEs-small, 4O@65; medium, S75@lOO; extrn
draught Sl00Ml50
HOGs-4 IL To &C. gross
MUTTON SHEEP-They are quotable at y 50G
s. per head. Per weight 24@Sc per pound.