Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-30
ROUND-UPS.
Gems Of the Best Texas Cattle Ever
seen Il Chicago Rsrs Mnksted
There LAST Week.
Cattle men In Roufhern Texas who Intended
70 Market Besves-Importationo of Sheep
From the Old Country.

SAVE.
" II Texas COWS
sell at Sl.75@
,-fy4xa 225 and Texas
GNET steers fetch
MN .YS44 So 5@3.25.
M3fIl "a Texas and In
NH{sMSSS disn cattle are
&L now penned In
AlS any division OF
SfGF the yard, the
quarantine hsv-
+ g expired. There bsve been some Of
the choicest thorough Texans ever seer
here marketed this week, but the grest
ms jorltY were OF an inferior sort. On
the general run of cattle that grade below
choice present prices sre abou. the same
as those OF year ago, bu. choice cattle
are 25a SOC higher and extrs fine beeves
would sell 5o(9.6c higher than ct that
time. Prime l4O0 to 1900 pound steers
were much pleTtier Yesr ago than row,
which sec 1unts for the difference. The
best beeves are no. likely 20 advance
much rOw before the holidEya, but With
tbs decreased receipts Of western rangers
the general run Of natives are petty sure
to sell better. Texans are marketed
throughout the yeSr, but the bulk OF them
will be csnairg lots, which will not come
into competition with native corn-fed
beeves.
Reports from the range districts con
| tinue favorable. Cattle are fst in all Of
the country north of the Union Pacific
t2kilrosd and there is generally an sbund-
tMcs Of feed. Cd COWS as rule will
be cared for and losses on other classes
are generally light.
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Good horses are always il demand ct
good figures. The horse stock Of the
county has been improved to such an ex-
tent that there are now number OF brood
msres that would bring fine colts with
the proper attention paid to their breed
ing. Cattle have been very low; common
horse stock have also sold at low Il yures
during the past few years, but good heavy
Draft and carriage horses have com
msnded good figures. This being the
case II our stockmen would plck their
best msres and breed them jldiciously in
the next i've years they would bs cur
prised 10 see how much they had realized
on the undertaking, and the cost outside
OF good stallion would be very little, az
the same pasture will raise good stock in
the same condition as it will poor. 1:
will, IS above stated, cost but little, and
even IL cattle go Cp in price few dollars
extra for few head of god horses will
not come amiss, while on the other hand
should cattle not 60 up in price the
money raised from this source will be
very acceptable. Try it, and let youl
brother stockmen see for them selves
Pearsall News.
Allu ion has several times been made
says the Ma ional Stockmin, to the heavy
importstions Of English sheep now beine
nsde into the United States; and
sltn ough lste in the season, these sheer
are still coming over in liberal consign.
ments. A great deal Of money is thus be
ing Eraneferred TO the other side of ths
Atlantic, and il is to De hoped that VIVA
Is obtained for 1t will be so valuable as t
fully warrant the expenditure. Americ
is pro5sbly the best customer the U oitet
j Kingdom TOW has for sheep, and every
&shirg feasible will be done over there Il
hold and increase the trade already estsb
lished. AS fsr ss we are able to lear
anything about the prices paid, they az
such as should secure the best stock; an
If the result is not that we will in fey
years have more good English sheep tina
England has, indications are not to b
trusted.
The senate Investigating committee, i
session At St. Louis. is collecting evi
IEce to corrsborlte the populsr belle
Ithkt few wsh in Chicago SUBSTANTIAL
s control thesesef trade and tx the prices
Tnt&HilhyF6Dably form the gist of 1t
III WORK. 9estimory ss to Isilrosd dlscrim
7 instion years sgo, which the inter- stat
. conn erce law now prevents, or at leas
for which it furnishes a certain remsdy
can have little bearing upon the evil
complained CT. To restore competition
which furnishes the only guarantee TO
fair trade, is tough problem. II tn
senate committee can outline plan b
which c1nnivsnce between men in tn
same line Of business for PURPOSES thu
sfe rjust can be frustrated, its member
%sll be entitled 70 the public gratitude
Denver News.
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IN c. c. French, agent Of the Campbell
= commission house, who has recently re-
turne from Southern Texas, says this
cattlemen down there have on hspd
great many fat beeves, which the.
bad intended shipping to msrke
st once, but they will be compelled
10 hold them for swhile longer now, 8
Eshe rains which have fallel
unnecessarily there for the pas
three weeks have washed the nutrimen
from the grass, hurting the range ant
setting fat cattle back bit. The cattle
men sre now undecided what to do, bu
Mr.. French thinks the few days Of mic
siNeathsr lately have put things in bette
shipe. Mr.. French sEys Q great man
fat beeves will be sent north during thi
winter. -.
Some buyers from Eastern states look
ing for horses for their home market sr
expected in Fori Worth early next week
: The trade IN that direction has not bee
go good this year SIS In the past, hayin
lbeen interrupted az 1t was about to set i
: 4g yellow fever sud quarantine, but deal
ers here yet look for something Of spur
in that way.
Field and Farm says that when the pres
ent cattle soippine season is over, which
will De II the EEK. twenty DAYS, there vii