Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-28

fGS[, SL44i LCb DlSu ~ Duj-
i.g, 10, view Of the uncertsiGtY which
IN sssEserizes the situation 81 the points
ssYssFsffsu mption.
Manufacturers are buying more or less
from wesk to week to &eep their machIu-
eZy in operation, bu. are not stocking up
for The future. The tendency to run only
on orders was never mere marked Than
st present. In one OF two lines of pro-
ductior little better feeling is apparent
than for some time past, but or the whole
The condition OF business and the outlook
ere nosascouragiDg.
as nsu5l when g tumble occurs IN the
ca sssH market, those interested are i1quir
!aeshto the cause OF the drop which Was
III last week, and ara wondering if there
IS any connection between it ana tbe
Doom which preCsded It. A2d there are
few who ere not dispose to lay the whole
mater at the door OF those who h8Ve
long been known to run the msrket
to suit their Cwn fortunes.
MSrket correspondence from the tiade
centerS, a. the lime the boom was on, is
interesting. TIE Chicago correspondent
of the Texas StoCkman of June IA ssys,
stter giving quotations on the days sales:
"These are the highest prices since 1884,
and the recent boom in the market-the
direct result Of lighe r supplies Of native
5eeves-hss made some Of the croakers
and Big Four shriekars think they have
not known Wh%. they were taking about.
C3untrymen have had their backbone
stiTeGed bv this substantial advance, and
they are Lot SO likely to knock the mar
ke: I'll to pieces with big runs-in fact,
the big runs of ripe cattle for the present
must be pretty well over"
The St. Louis cores pondent Of the
same date says: "When round strings
Of Tex IS cattle are selling here at the
zane prices they are bringing OF the esst
eTn markets with 80 cents per 100 pounds,
freight 10 be added to first cost, and feed,
expenses and shrinkage not considered,
It looks to your correspondent that there
is 't3 Niger in the Wood-pile" Eastern
buyers and spectators paying IS % 10
81 80 for grass Ttx,s cattle is good
thing for T,Iss rsnchmen, and thorgh
they may hope snd pray that these prices
may be firmly established for the summer,
they should remember that the prayers
If the wicked svsileth not, and nay X
pect drop CT nesr Sl.0O per 100 p unds
as soon IS the "nigger" is discovered ("
President Edgsr B. Bronson, OF the FL
P4s0 National Bank, cSttle- rsiser snd
dealer for several years paat, has written
the following interesting letter to friend
in Chicago, on the condition OF the range
man:
note ell you say about the bright fu-
ture Of cattle and agree with you in the
msin. But She business Of the raugeman,
on large and profitable scale, is prac.i-
cgliy done. In T, sc there remains com
payat.vely few ranges cspsble Of tlrriG 9
IF f=ir ggss5 beat. Settlement of the good
lands End eating out oftho poor is draw
irg the nes down narrower every yeSr;
ALd every gear the ditticu ties ard cost OF
ge.iing e.. steers is eating deeper and
deeper inTo the ran chnan's patieucs and
pocket, o. course there are isolated
ranges where men nay hang on yet
awhile but they are not many and must
soon fall easy prey 20 the ploWehsre.
When one has to Lessee land in Texas, buy
water fronts In the territories and
build fences his fate is sealed. There
is not che such enterprise In
the west worth Q d-n where tie land
Tas MOI bougd. prior to 1881, The soon
eT the ESngentn reduces his numbers,
gets better bulls and goes on tame grass
the better ne is of. Times and condi-
lions sre now changed to s point th,t
makes corn shock q more profitable
close-herder than any COW puncher thst
ever wore spurs. Il is sad thing for sr
old rsngeman to contemplate, but it is,
nevertheless, the simple truth.
The merry crack Of the six-shoo.er
soon will no more be heard in the
land, It's Wild and WooliY manipulation
beiag driven over the last divide, with
f.int show Of resistance, By 81 unas-
suning granger and bis all-consuerirg
hoe. The rapgeman, like many another
in the past, has served his purpose snd
survived his usefulness. His work is
practically done. And but very few in
America know Whist a noble work Il has
been or what its cost OF pri-
vation and danger. refer, Of
course, not alone 10 the de-
velopnent cE crest industry which in
its time hiss added millions 30 the ma-
terial wealth Of the country, but to it's
collateral results and Influences. NIL
.Eons OF acres Of the gyes. plains from the
faGulf 10 the Bow river, now highly cult
waited, and the peacesble prosperous
homes OF thousands Of thrifty farmers,
would to-day be whas it had
previously been from the be-
ginning, battle-ground for the
Indian and safe retreat for wild game,
but for the venturesome rsngeman and
his riff. And what the hsrdships ard
personal risk with which this CREST piop-
eer work has been accomplished, few