The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
HOOPS AND HORNS.
Range Notes Selected from the
Great Stock Papers.
Prices and Movements of Cattle.
Texas Cattle in Chicago.
Providing Indians.

Here in the city corn fed beeves are
selling at l. p to cents, but they are very
scarce. Good COWS sell from $40 to $15
per head yearlings IS to Sc.
The time may come when rival beef
packers will station men with spy glasses
on top of their buildings to get first sight
of a car load of fat beef as it rolls to-
ward market. The mills of the gods
grind slowly" rs we know, and the fat
beef supply will be ground wondrous fine.
The Texas supply will keep up the long
est and be in the ring when the change
comes.-Fort Worth Texas Stock Jour
nal.
Henry Sinner, of San Antonio, reports
that his large shipment of cattle from his
McMulien county rancho Melted him $3.50
in Chicago. This stock averaged 1850
pounds on the market and graded equal
to Indian Territory cattle.
Some crazy people are determined to
cross the buffalo on common cattle in Or
der to obtain ~ cent beef and a 81 hide
The buffalo stralghtly bred is worth III
cents per pound as a rarity, and buhalo
robes will soon be worth $40 to $50 each,
independent of value as curiosltles. Inc
journal would suggest that the expert
mentalists raise buffalo and not mongrels.
Fort Worth Texas Stock Journal.
Most of the northern and northwestern
part of the Pan has been receiving heavy
rains without let through the season. Our
exchanges down that way have most all of
them reported bridges carried away and
other damage done by the high waters.
Exceptionally good crops are beng raised,
and wheat and oats have yielded i'm
mensely-Mobeetie Panhandle.
Word came in Monday that consider
able band of Indians, either Kiowas or
Comanches, and supposed to be the for
mer, were prowling and taking exercise
in the r. U. range. In few hours
Lieutenant Paddock with Il troop, Fifth
cavalry, and a ndmber of Cheyenne Indian
scouts left Fort Elliott to escort the
rover5 back to their reservation in the
territory.-Mobeetie Panhandle.
NJ. B. Pulliam turned over 1000 head of
twos to Conner Bros. this week at $40, and
L. M. Higginson, of Concho county, 800
yearlings at $7.-San Angelo Standard.
The round-ups from Fort Sumner, N.
NJ, east, has been abandoned for lack of
water and grass. The water holes contain
water sufficient yet for the cattle but the
grass is lamentably short, which seriously
affects the horse stock, and altogether the
condition of affairs is about as bad as it
can well be.
The fear, az expressed by the Hoof and
Horn, that northern Arizona is to receive
100000 head of New Mexico and Texas
cattle this season, will not be borne out
by the facts. 1t Is said northern Arizona
has not room for one-third of that num-
Der.
The Powder River Live Stock company
~ 600 I,,,,r of
their farm III Nebraska and few days
since sold three carloads for $475 per
hundred at feeding pens. This would be
considerable above So at Chicago
enne journal.
to the Territory Thursday.
Col. O. G. Poole, of the l.. 7. cattle
company, shipped thirty-two cars of cat
tie to the Territory last week from Colo
RADIO City.
Winfield Scott, of Colorado City, ap-
pears to have a grain of confidence in
the future of the cattle business. He has
bought 5000 yeaIlings lately. He pur-
chased 1000 of the number from William
Hilton few days ago for So per head.
Dallas News.
Felix Mann is selecting herd of 5000
onel Slaughter. He is paying Sc to 81.
VIM. Ragland, of Fort Worth, recently
bought eight carloads of beeves of W. A.
, Pettus at $40 per head, which passed
through here on Tuesday en- route to
Chicago.
The Texas Land and Cattle company
shipped twenty-eight carloads of beeves
Street stable cars from Corpus Christi
Chicago last week.
Crops good, grass fine and cattle faU, is
the report from Matagorda county.
Towers & Gudgeil have moved 1850
head of yeaflings and 2-year old steers
and heifers from the Colorado and
Neutral Strip ranges to the Little Mis-
souri, in Montana. The stock passed up
the Cheyenne Northern last Sunday.
recent issue of the Chica go Drovers'
journal contains the following important
paragraph: among the arrivals at mar
ket one day this week was lot of sleek
fat Texas steers weighing over 1900
pounds, which sold at $3.50, while
many lots of native cattle aver
aging 1900 to 1900 pounds were
selling for less and the bulk of the
Texas steers were selling at about $3.75
said the salesman: these cattle were fed
in Texas on corn and cottonseed meal,
and were fed just as we would feed them
10 Missouri Now there is 9 ute sermon
in this short text, which Texas cattle feed
ers should take and preach to themselves.
They should not only preach it, but apply
it. Somehow the idea has long prevailed
that Texas was pre-eminently ca'f coun-
try. This may be true, but it does not
follow that it is not, as we'll, an excellent
beef country. Anybody who saw this lot
of cattle would no longer harbor the
opinion that Texas cannot make choice
beeves."
Two Candidates.
From the San Francisco Examiner.