Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-21
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lad cations thss Bssf Cattle VIII Bring
| <. More Rsxsans b.e Prices Durlng
The Coming Season.
j A Committee IF the Nortbwest Texas Lave
ssock Association 'nicets at Fort worth.
| Action Tsksn-sbipping to Ar:zons.
Fourteen double-deck carloads Of sheep
passed north through Fort Worth over
the Santa Fe Sunday morning.
The Warrenton ssock farm of Parker
county is shipping large bunch of thor
oughbred ishort-horn bulls to the Aztec
Cattle Company Ct Arizona.
Colonel B. B. Groom of Lexington,
KY, who in times past had large interests
in the live stock industry OF Texas, and
who yet owns considerable real estate in
the western portion of the state, was IN
the CITY yesterday, shaking hands with
his friends.
On Saturday meeting Of Messrs. A. P.
Bush, s. W. Lomsx, Captain Lee, 8. 8.
Burnett and j. c. Loving was held in
Fert Worth, they constituting commit
tee Of the Northwest Texas Live Ste OK
Association, with power to take action for
the association in the matter of establish
ing agencies for the detection Of cattle
thieves and attend to other matters for
Thich the association is maintained. No
unusual proceedings were had, and the
meeting adjourned after taking steps to
continue the detective establishments in
existence in the past year.
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There has been q couple Of ssles OF
steers made, one 8. Fort Worth and the
other at Ennis, during the last week,
which are regarded IS about the best that
have been made in Texas in the past two
years, and II, for the sake of argument it
could be SAID that one swallow makes
summer, then the indications are all in
the direction of better and more reasons-
BILE prices for beef cattle during
the coming season. One Of
the trades referred to was of
SEQ head of steers, corn-fed and grass
finished, from W q. Walker of Tarrant
county, to 81 L. Barnes, commission
merchant Of Denver, who wsnts the cat
tie for slaughter at the latter city. TIE
sale WAS made through W. G. Rodgers, Of
Fort Worth. The animals were as fae
looking cattle ss ever went out Of Tar
rant county, weighing 1900 pounds. aver-
sef,s were SIX and seven years old, and
She bunch brought $11, Ace, or SIS per
he.d. The other sale was of 1928 head
of steers by Berry Gatewood of Ennis to
representative of 8 Chicago commission
house, the price being S36 per head.
These animals were fed on cotton seed
and hay, were four years old, and are
said by those who have seen them to have
f5sen extra fine beeves.
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The following herds have crossed the
Canadian river at Canadian, Hemphill
county, up to this time: Reynolds Land
and Cattle Company, two herds, 34o0
head Of steers, one herd, 100 head Of
steers from Tnrockmorton county, Texse,
and bound for Dakota. Smithson & Co.,
two herds, 1900 head Of steers, one herd,
100 head of steers, on their way to the
Pswnee agency, Indian Territory. Bur-
ton, Porter & Taylor, 99s head of steers,
on their way to Days pasture in the Ter
ritory. The Mstsdor Cattle Company,
one herd, 1900 head, bound for Dskots.
Mr.. "Muk" Smith of Sherman, Tex, Of
the well known firm of Smith & Forsythe,
has shipped 1900 head of steers from
Canadian. They are to be pastured near
Caldwell. Mr.. Smith has jast purchased
from Charley Goodnight $500 head Of the
w brand. This will wipe out the brand.
I1ase5xre tours and fves and formerly
Befonged to the London Cattle Company.
The price paid WIGS $22 so per head.
These also will be shipped from here and
placed in their pasture near Caldwell,
Kan. Mr.. Smith says that more cattle
will be shipped from Canadian this season
than from any other one point in the
country; that it is the best, snd in fact
the only excellent shipping point in the
that cattle will come from
$50 miles west in Lincoln county, New
Mexico, and as far south In Texas as the
Texls Pacific Railway.