The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
THE GREAT RANGE.
IMPORTANT AND INTEREST,"
ING CATTLE AND
HORSE NOTES.
DAILY DRIVES FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STOCK GROWING
COUNTRY.

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A writer in the Western Rural says the
"an purpose COW" is creature of "pure
fancy
At all the market centers, last week.
COWS and inferior stuff generally, was sac
rificed.
Big, fat Illinois and Nebraska steers
sold as low as $3.50 and $4.75 at Chicago
last week.
The controversy on de.horning cattle
goes on, with the odds apparently in favor
of the dehorners.
Exports from New York last Friday and
Saturday included $50 live cattle, 3,16O
quarters of beef.
A Denver gentleman estimates that 90
600 beeves from Utah will be marketed in
his city this fall. Pretty steep!
Dressed beef from America has declined
in Liverpool from eleven to eight and
half cents within ten days time.
Live stock rates between Omaha and
Chicago which were cut down to 500 and
$50, have been restored to $40 per car.
1t is estimated that the Chicago market
will absorb this year of the range cattle
product $4,000 head of Texans and 210,.
600 northern cattle.
The Rocking Chair company shipped
a head of 760 of the finest beeves ever
shipped from the Panhandle on Monday
last. They go to Kiowa.-Mobeetie Pan
handle.
During June $4,000 cattle, $4,000
hogs and $4,000 sheep arrived at the I'm
ion stock yards, Chicago. For June, 1885,
the totals were 156,l17 cattle, 590,96O
hogs, and 1929 sheep.
Mr.. Ator has bunch of 400 head of
cattle in quarantine few miles from
town. Messrs Locke O. Clampitt have
purchased twenty-four head from the
herd.-Mobeetie Panhandle.
Il The Texas Stockman should not make
any unkind remarks in relation to cheap
Old Mexico "dogies." Cattle can be
bought as cheap in Texas as in Old Mex
leo to-day.-El Paso journal.
George Cassell, Texas cowboy, in the
employ of E. S. Newman, was drowned
Monday while assisting in the crossing of
herd of cattle at the ford above the
post on the Yellowstone river in Mon
tana.
c. 0. Howe, of the Wabash Cattle com.
pany, Apache County, Arizona, has pur-
chased of the Mexico and Texas Land a.
Cattle company, of Ell Paso, 1,500 head
of cattle, which will be at once shipped to
the Wabash company's range.
Arkansas stockmen are greatly alarmed
owing to the breaking out of disease
among the cattle on tine range in Loan
oke county. The disease is pronounced
murrain by some, while others hold it to
be something else. 1t is very fatal, the
animal dying shortly after being stricken.
1t is proposed to amend the New Mex
leo quarantine law so as to have an in
spector for each county. The office will
be made salaried, and the fees for inspec-
ton go either to the territory or county
treasurer, depending upon which assumes
to pay the salaries of the inspectors.
A cattle car has been patented which
has an arrangement of food bins, feeding
sacks, and water trough ofnovel construc-
ton, so contrived that the car may be
used to carry cattle in one direction, and
freight or merchandise on the return trip,
the feeding boxes being adapted to fold
back out of the way.
The total receipts of livestock at Chi
cago since January l have been $4,000
cattle, 3,221,500 hogs and $4,000 sheep,
against 886,649 cattle, 3,151,164 hogs
and 5I0,692 sheep for the corresponding
six months of 1885, thus showing an in
crease of over 10000 hogs, and decrease
of 100000 cattle and $1,000 sheep.
1t does not pay the Texas sheepman, or
any other man for that matter, to send
cabby sheep to market. A drove of AL
Texans was sold to-day at $3.50 per 100
lbs. They Melted the shipper just 1858.
Being afflicted with "scab," farmers would
net buy them, and they were too thin for
butchers use.-Chicago Live Stock Re-
view.
The Colorado Live Stock Record con-
tains the following: Ike T. Pryor has
of his trail herd of cattle. He
sold 2,100 ones and twos to Hall Bros, for
SIS around, delivered at their ranch in Las
Animas county, and the balance of the
herd, 1000 in number, were sold to Major
A. W. Towers, to be delivered at Hanne-
we'll, Kan
Now that the breeders up north and east
have decided to make more steers, Texas
will, perhaps, get better class of bulls
than have hitherto been brought
here. The FL Paso journal says that
there is much complaint that grade bulls
do not show the results expected of them,
and the inferior grade bulls that have
been shipped to Texas and sold at long
prices no doubt furnish the reason.
The shipments of beef cattle over the
line of the Santa Fe road from the west
will largely increase this season over for
mer years. Colorado will have an increas-
ed number of beet cattle to turn off,
while New Mexico, western Texas and Ari-
IONA will add an increased number to
their shipment over former years. The
present outlook for an increased number
Of beef cattle from the section of the
country referred to is at this time quite
Dodge City journal.
The total number of cattle forwarded
from the United States to British markets
Turing the first half of 1886 reached al
most $4,000, while q, 504 went from Cana
lian ports. About $4,000 head sailed
from New York, being on an average of
$500 head per month, or 145 head per
lay during the six months. Out of to-
5al of 1895 cattle shipped 32,225 we're
consigned to Liverpool, while 26,273 went
20 London, and 1916 to Glasgow.-Chi
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