San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
TEXAS TOPICS.


recently of $4,000.
The W alter works nj Palestine have
been tested and pronounced MI right
There will be meeting of the cat
tie men of Texas at Austin on the l4th
Of February.
Patrick & Whiteworth, OF Sulphur
Springs, recently sold 500 bales oi cot
ton in st. Louis for $4,000.
Carp have been extensively dis
tributed throughout Texas by the
United States Fish Commission, and
in n few years VIC 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 18th of January, and
resolved to hold the next annual meet
ing of the Association at Houston, dur
ing the month OF May, instead of April,
the time fixed ut the meeting last ye-r.
-Nacogdoches Nc,rs: A little girl,
daughter of Ramon Cardova, a Mexican,
was burned to death one day last week
on the farm Of Mr.. W. IL. Fray, nine
miles east of town. Her father was
clearing land for Mr.. Gray and she hal
gone with him, but had got separated
from him and was burnt to crisp
when he found her.
On Wednesday Joe Baker and
Dick Dodson had dispute on the farm
of Seymour Il Tanner, near Columbus,
when they came to blows, and during
the excitement child of Dodson's,
eighteen months old, was struck on the
head, and died from the effect Of tae
blow that night ut II o'clock. In the
fight Baker used shotgun he had
taken down from the cabin, and Dodson
used a stick. The child was between
the combatants when the fight begun,
and received fatal blow.
The Texas Lice Stock Journal
SAYS The beef crop Of Texas the pres
ent year will be from 40 to 90 per cent.
larger than it has ever yet been i'll any
one year. In addition to the increase
IN all kinds of cattle, this increase is
due to the fact that owing to the drouth
in many sections last year large num-
Der of beeves failed to futten, and were
held over. While Texas raisers We're
picking out beef tit to send out, cattle
all over the Western States were better
than usual; and, stimulated by an un-
usually good market, and further i'm
PEELED by the possibility of 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 18S0-S1 in the North
west will be more apparent in the crop
of 1882 than it was in the crop OF 1881.
We therefore conclude that the scarcity
of beef North will fully neutralize 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 total of 1895 head of cattle,
worth on an average 81 per head, max /
ing $23,275. During the year 1877
sold 173 head of beeves, which Melted
S3,14O. In 1878 1 branded $50 calves,
worth about SIS per head, making $3.50
and in the year 1879 branded l445
calves, worth to me So per head, making .
1925; also during the year Mr.. Byler
bought 900 head at an average at about
81 50 per head, making $6,750. In 1888
I branded 1928 calves, worth on an
average of SIS per head, making S9646,
and during the year of 1SSOwe bought,
as near as l can learn from my books,
3147, nearly half of which were steer
cattle, and worth on an average SO per
head, making $31, 40. And during the
year of 1879 we sold Sl4 head of beeves,
which net $14, 1873, and during the year
1880 we sold AIT head which net !
$1O,5SS. And during the year 1881, up
to the time we sold out, about the first {
Of August, had branded 3I35 calves
worth So per head, Sl2lS5. And !,
during that year, up to the time we ,
sold out, we had sold 92l head of beeves, :
which net SIS, $50, making grand total ,
of 1882 head of cattle at a cost of :
500, S51, and out of that number we sold {
2541 head of beeves for the round sum :
of S5O,3S1. And in August, 1881, Mr.. !
Byler sold ont, including his ranch and ,
about so head of horses for the snug I
sum of Sl30.000