The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-03-11
OVER THE RANGE.
PERSONAL POINTS AND
NEWSY MUG
GETS.
DAILY ROUNDUP BY THE STATES
MANS TRAIL
MAN.
Grass is beginning to rise.


lands yet remain unlicensed in TeXas
The price Of yearlings and two yeai
olds il on the rise with firm market.
Sinner Bros. sold 1000 head Of l-year
old steers, south Texas ranch delivery, a
$l3.
There are n good many steer twos in
the country between the Pecos and Fl
Paso.
The Goliad Tex Guard says that 81
has been refused for steer yearlings in its
section.
The sa Miguel Live Stock association
of New Mexico, will hold special meet
ing at Las Vegas, March 8.
II takes nerve in cattleb buyer TO insist
that young steers will go begging for
buyers in Texas this spring.
We learn that Mr.. Ike Stevens has sold
his interest in the Independence ranch
and cattle Consideration, $l35,0OO. lie
has invested in old Mexico.
Rumors are ahoat of sale of MajoI
Seth Mabry, of 1000 south Texas year
lings. The air is full of cattle-trade talk
as we go to press. They want em.
Nathan Hail. of Socorro county, New
Mexico, is in Toyah, Texas, where he is
holding 5000 yearlings, which are being
gotten in shape for the drive to New
Meai,o.
Mccullough county cattle man says
he can lease land at fair rental, fence it,
and make more money raising cattle than
upon the open range, with the present
tendency TO overstock.
D. Strother Brown, of Sherman, Texas,
had cattle and hogs in Chicago from Del
awGre Bend, Texas Two carloads of
l0i5.pound cattle sold at $3.50 and car
load of 2l4-pound hogs Mt $3.50.
Major Seth Mabry says that hereafter
he will buy ycarings according to three
foot guags. They must be at least three
feet nigh, or no trade, as all under that
height were showed under, last winter.
The Elyria Land and Cattle company,
OF Greeley, Weld county, has filed articles
Of Incorporation with the secretary of
state The incorporators are Frank II.
Hill, Arthur Il. Hill and Alexander Mead
and the capital stock is $4,000.
Some buyers went to the Taylor country
last week and offered SO for steer year
lings They were probably surprised that
the people did not turn out with a brass
band to meet them. But they heard
music in the air before they left,
An experienced Texas. ranchero SAYS
that there is more money in raising
straight Texas yearlings, at IS n head, |
than thoroughbreds and improved Mt so. |
The straight Texas COW has II calf every
year, while the improved cannot be de |
PENDED upon.
Colonel p. r. Smith, manager of the
OAK Grove Fine Stock company, Silver
City, and G. f. Foraker, of Foraker Bros,
9. F. Ranch, Black Hawk, all of Grant
c6Nnty, N. NJ, recently bought some 400
hundred head of well-graded stock cattle
OF j. >. Giddings Ennis, Texas at $l1.50
p3r head,
II is said that Driskill d. Blocker while
~ the Denver convention, contracted
with Il. w. Earnest, of Nebraska, to de-
liver them 22,0O0 head of Texas one and
two-year at SO to Sl4 Their re-
cont purchase from Lyle d Mcdaniel, re-
ported last week, is said to be in fulfill
ment of said contract
Tho Chicago Times is authority for the
statl nent that the Grand Trunk railway
Will protect the interests of its patrons,
Che dressed-beef shippers, even to the end
Of di7rupting the pool. Nothing official
has yet been done, but the Grand Trunk
holds the key to the situation, and will
doubtless make it interesting for the pool
combination.
Messrs. Seth Mabry and Ike Pryor
have bought 5000 yearlings and two-year
old- from r. A. e. j. d. Houston, of
Gonzales county, to be delivered at the
Lockhart prairie, for S. and Sl2 a head.
respectively. 1t is also reported that they
bought herd of Upper Pecos river two
year-olds, to be delivered at their Mason {
county ranch, for $l5.75 The latter are I
said to be well improved. {
Knott has sent message to the Ken !
lucky assembly in which he expressed his y
reasons for not signing the pleuro- pneu- :
MONA bill His objections to the meas
ure are based upon purely constitutional
grounds, and several able and strong rea-
sons are given why it should not become !
\ law. The governor, in his annual mes =
sage pressed upon the legislature the i'm "
portance of the passage of somelaw lock- l.
ing to the eradication of the disease in u
Harrison county.
The interview of General Ross has :,
been closely examined, and the prevailing 5,
belief is that his position on the land n
question, the great problem before the n
seople of the state, is susceptible of more s
nan one construction, and practically &
amounts to nothing. West Texas and the
tockmen expected something better and \,
more certain from the Waco candidate Az
specially as he had taken ample time to u
ook over the field and define himself - d
81 Paso Stock journal.
Cheyenne Northwestern Live Stock y
ournal; 1t is reported that John A. Nc '"
shame, manager for the Bay State Live
'tock company, while in Denver last week, bt
purchased for his company about 10000 Cl
ores of land in Wyoming, paving there.
or $4,000. The land was purchased 70
rom Mr.. Nj. Harold of Denver, and is
ocated on Pole creek, near this city. ad-
dining lands already owned by the Bay al
tate outfit, the Post Percheron Horse as SO
ociation, and others. doc" Harold
ought the lands, less than two years ago.
rom the Union Pacific railway company.
nd we imagine he has made very suc
essful trade. In
Many of the stockmen of west Texas wi
re disappointed with the statements of a an
General Ross on the land question as ex wi
raesad in his rnbliShaJ Sr