The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-02-11
TEXAS TOPICS.

"A man was robbed IN san Antonio
recently OF $1,000.
The alter works Mt Palestine have
been tested and pronounced all right.
There will be a meeting Of the cat
tie men Of Texas at Austin Oh the 18th
Of February.
Thirty families OF well.to.do Hi
nois people have recently settled near
Dublin, Erath county.
Patrick Il Whiteworth, of Sulphur
Springs, recently sold SOD bales OF cot
ton in st. Louis for so 600.
carp nave been extensively dis.
tributed throughout Texas by the
United States Fish Commission, and
in few years we will see what Texas
can do in the way of fish farming.
The executive committee of the
Texas Press Association held meeting
at Houston ON the 25th Of January, and
resolved to hold the next annual meet
ing Of the Association ut Houston, dur
ing the month OF May, instead of April,
the time fixed at the meeting last year.
-Nacogdoches Nc,Cs, A little girl,
daughter Of Ramon Cardoya, a Mexican,
was burned to death one day last week
on the farm of Mr. W. II. Fray, nine
miles east Of town Her father was
clearing land for MIR. Gray and she had
gone with him, but had got separated
from him and was burnt to crisp
when he found her.
The Texas Lice Stock Journal
says: The beef crop OF Texas the pres
cot yer will b. from 40 to 90 per cent
larger than it has ever yet been III any
one year In addition to the increase
in MI kinds Of cattle, this increase is
due to the hct that owing to the drouth
in many sections last year n large num-
Der of beeyes failed to fatten, aud were
held over. While Texas raisers were
picking ont beef fit to send out, cattle
all over the Western States were bettor
than usual; and, stimulated by an un-
usually good market, and further i'm
PEELED by the possibility of a bad win
ter such as had Just been experienced,
holders shipped more largely than they
would otherwise have done Nor must
it be forgotten that the results of the
severe winter Of lSS0Sl in the North
west will be more apparent in the crop
of 1882 than it was in the crop of 1851.
We therefore conclude that the scarcity
of beef North will fully neutrulize any
bad effect from an increased Texas pro
duct. We also feel confident that even
with general increase of grass beef
such augmentation will not equal the
enlarged demand
C. W. Waddell, in 1877, came from
Callahan county to Mitchell, with about
5000 head OF cattle. He writes: Du-
ring the year 1877 / branded 325 calves,
making a total of $685. head vi unttir,
worth ON au average 81 per head, max
ing $23,275. Daring the year 1877
sold 173 head of beeves, which netted
$3,140. In 1878 branded 562 calves,
worth about 50 per head, making $3.50
and in the year 1879 branded 1l45
calves, worth to me So per head, making
S7,225; also during the year Mr.. Byler
bought 900 head at an average at about
81 80 per head, making S6,750. In 1887
1 branded / ,92S calves, worth on an
average of 50 per head making s96I6,
and during the year of lSS0w bought
as near as | can learn from my books
BAT, nearly half of which were steer
cattle, and worth or an average SO per
head, making $3l 40. And during the
year OF 1879 we sold S1I head Of beeves,
which net sl4 ,SS3, and during the year
1880 we sold ATT head which net
s105Ss. And during the year 1881, up
to the time we sold out, about the first
of August, l had branded 1895 calves
worth 50 per head, Sl2,1S5. And
during that year, up to the time wo
sold out, We had sold 92l head of beeves,
which net Sl9, $50, making a grand total
of 1882 head of cattle at cost OF
S93,S5l, and out of that number we sold
25Il head of beeves for the round sum
of Sj0,3Sl. And in August, 1881, Mr..
Byler sold ont, including his ranch and
about go head OF horses for the snug
sum of Sl30,000