The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-02-04
OVER THE RANGE.
PERSON AL POINTS AND
NEWSY MUG
GETS.
DAILY ROUNDUP BY THE STATES
MANS TRAIL
MAN.

There will be good market for good
muttons little later.
j. S. Stoveall of the Panhandle, re-
Gently made heavy purchase of Here
ford bulls.
NJ. Taylor, of Menard county, has been
offered and has refused 20 cents pound
for his spring six months clip of wool
The wool trade is so remarkably strong
that the eastern markets are quoted IN
the western associated press dispatches.
The New Mexico Stock Grower says
Texas cattle will go up the trail in the
spring. The Stock Grower has lucid in
tervals.
W. NJ Broyls, of the Salt Works cattle
company located at Albany, reports
water and grass good in Shackelford
county.
The Colorado Clipper says that cattle
buyers are now plentiful in that city and
trades for spring delivery are being
made.
The Messrs. Gano Bros. have COM
pleted their purchases of Hereford and
Shorthorn bulls, 100 in number, and about
equally divided, for their Preside county
ranch
The Dallas News says that Colonel
Carnes, the president of the Red River
National Bank, at Gainesville, has sold
his interest in the Forsyth Cattle com
pany, of which he was one of the found
ers.
The struggle between the dressed beef
and live stock men for supremacy in the
eastern markets can have but one termin-
ton. In the end the dressed beef men
will be victorious. The time when hoof
horns and offal are transported across the
continent is about at an end.
A Medina county rancnman put twenty
one dollars into hogs-a male and six
femaes-two years ago, the sows being
with pig at the time. Since then he has
killed from the product $50 worth OF
pork, and has on hand over $500 worth
! of hogs. Till within the last sixty days
they have not cost him cent for feed
other than what they picked up In the
pasture. There is too much money going
out of Texas for bacon.
The Lexington cattle company have
from $4,000 to 10000 head of well i'm
proved cattle-Shorthorns being the ele-
ment of Improvement A. j. Long is the
manager. The ranch is located on Double
Mountain Fork in CARA county, and the
grass and water are splendid and the stock
are in fine fix. There are few horses in
that section of the country-a couple of
ranches having, perhaps, 1,2OO head, and
no sheep or goats to amount to anything.
number of the company are from Lex
ington, Kentucky, and the balance are
Texas people.
Grass Commissioner Stephenson in his
report recommends the qualification Of
the alternate land sections. In CONVEX,
sation recently with the editor of The
Stockman Mr.. Stephenson stated that he
considered such measure not only prac-
tical but absolutely necessary. There is
no doubt that the odd section system is
one of the greatest barriers to either sale
or lease, not only of the state, but private
and corporation lands, and sooner or later
something must be done about it. Would
it not be proper matter to entrust to the
proposed board of survey that is to re-
survey the state lands!
The atmosphere is thick with trades
about to be. The capitol syndicate mar
is here, looking after steers to stock the
three million acres donated by free
grass legislature to lot of men in Chi
cago to build house at Austin. There is
no trouble in finding the cattle, but the
, agent of the syndicate will not find them
as cheap as the lands. This firm got theil
lands at 80 cents per acre or less, while the
poor devil who wants section (640 acres
can go on some lonely divide and get it
provided water is not to be had except by
boring in the direction of China, ant
> some places it may be that it will take 8
hule pretty nearly through to the Celestia
empire to find water, one of the necessi
ties of people, even on the frontier Of
Texas