Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-08
Be6ND-UPs.
Sheep 1ctusIIy Being Buried Alive
y11st6e Succnlens Grasses Of She
Concao Country.
in West rexas-OaItle sh ppsd from
CoIoraa0-PriskIy Pear Feeding.


in West rexas-OaIsle Shipped from
CoIorado-PriskIy Pear Feeding.
John Harris OF Colorado City has de
livered 10000 head of steers IL the nation.
The Odum & Luckess Cattle Company
Is driving 1000 head Of cattle to the
NATION T..
J. W. Gibsun b sending several hun
dyed hesdof steers from Truehart to the
neaian nation.
IS On4 thousand two hundred unshorn
sheep were recently delivered st Ballinger
Tor 80 per head.
Cattle buyers are offering SIS for fed
four year-old steers, and $40 for grass
fed four-yeSr-olds ct Breckett.
Tom Goodwine Of San Angelo last week
sold seventy head of stock horses to J.
T. Hoover OF Abilene for sl4 per head.
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T. Il. Jones, Well known stockmin
Of Vernon, is in the city with hsytering
report OF the condition OF live stock
affairs in his section.
Sheepmen In the west fnd 1t more pro-
ftsble to drive sheep to the local market
to sheer them than to psy freight on the
wool from the ranch.
The San Angelo Standard says: Sheep
sre actually being buried alive in the sue
culent grasses that wave on the prsiries
Of the Concho country.
The Uvalde News says: The good
effect of the shipment OF the surplus stock
from this county is very apparent. Money
matters are much better, and many OF
the stockmen are out Of debt.
Forsythe and Smith last week shipped
from Clarendon over the Southern Kag SIS
Road more.than thousand head Of the
cattle recently obtained by them from
Sam LAZARUS. The cattle 60 to the
Strip.
WI Montreith, a horse dealer Of Fort
Worth, says the prospects appear very
encouraging for brisk trading in horses
and mules during the coming season, he
being in receipt Of numerous letters from
iesstern dealers regarding prices, coDdi
| ton of the market, etc, In North Texas,
which would indicate that they mean
| business.
| Zsck Mulhall, the popular representa-
| live OF Hunter, Evans & Co., returned
| yesterday after . short absence In the
Panhandle. He says the northwestern
cart of the state Is in need Of rain, for
hough some slight showers have fallen
atelY, there has not been enough moist
| ure to bring up the grass, and the cattle
l,sre looking rather thin.
The csttlemen in the neighborhood OF
Colorado City are taking to the scheme OF
spaving cattle with considerable vim
This week G. W. Hudson is having 1000
calves and yearlings spayed, and as soon
IS that lot is a ished the surgeon who is
doing the work will commence on large
contracts with M. z. Smissen, Winfield
Scott and D. P. Atwood.
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The following shipments OF csttle and
sheep are mentioned in the Clipper as
having been made from Colorado City to
the Indian Territory during the pas,
week: Sawyer, McKoy s Rummery,
sixty car loads Of cattle; D. P. Atwood
four car loads Of sheep to Chicago; j. B
Wilson, fifteen car loads cattle; 81. W
Catlett, fifteen car loads cattle; W. Il
Godair, forty i've cars Of cattle,
From the same source comes the infor-
nation that Colonel G. G. Poole is about
to move 1900 L T cattle from the ConchC
country to the Indian Territory.
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The business of feeding beef cattle on
lprickly pear and cottonseed meal will
soon be suspended here until next win
ter. Nearly all thst are in the pens now
are fat enough to market and will soon be
shipped OF. 1t Is needless to say that the
business will be carried on extensively
here next winter as nearly all Of those
who tried it the past winter have made
money at 1t and will 60 at 1t again at the
proper time. They have learned by ex.
perience what class Of cattle to feed to
max the most money, and know more
about the business In every way than for
merly and can feed to q much better ed-
vantsge than ever before Cotulla
Ledger.
"Good beef steers are going to be
worth pretty good money before the
season Is over" declared Zick MuIhalI
last evening In his most emphatic tones,
''for there is q going to be q
scarcity of them. There are plenty
of scrubs to be found all over the
country, and great many OF them
are being pu. on the market, but good
grsssfsd ste ! are not plentiful, and the
pr ces paid to- them this year will be
higher than were thought of last season.
The boys must begin 70 talk high prices,
for II they continue to howl about the
depressed condition of the market the
Big Four will think We expect low
prices"