Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-12

ms sOoul oUUU nead, ranging neSr ROSilli
Mountains in Bucnel county.
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Following prices are about what buy
ers are Offering for cattle in Frio county:
Yesrlings 50 80 to Sc; twos frsm 81 to
So; tbrses Sl2; fat COWS $40; cow and
csi $40 to sI2; extra mich cows from
Sl2 to $40.
The Victoria Advocate says: Captain
J n. Keerau yesterday bought from Mr..
JACK Hines nf Hines bay, 1900 steer
yearlings at s5 per head, the cattle TO be
delivered at Csptsin Keeran's ranch, in
this county, on the 25:h Of this month.
A. 3. Combs, OF the james II. Camp
bell & Co. commission house. has return
ed from trip smopg tie cattle districts
CT H.sS Texas, where be found every
thing spring like, with prospects OF the
production OF good beef when the cattle
have time to take on flesh.
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OF all thu esttle companies in America
controlled hy Scetch-Americau syndicates
iealY two show credit balances for the
year tS87, they being the Matador and
the Western. In 1856 the Prairie Cattle
Company, together with the two first
mentioned, had q slight balance to the
good.
A cQmmission NAH eeid yesterday that
the middlemea had very little margin on
mutton these dsYe, for though the prices
ruling are better thsn they have been be.
fore in years, the growers are very stiff in
the demands, and are firm in The c1nvic-
lion thai their sheep are worth al! Ihst is
being offered for them.
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Mr. S. A. Thompson hiss returned from
q ten days trip through the ranges OF
Messrs. Greenlee and Sam Schwing, Mrs.
L ;zzie CrossoD, Captain G. L. Nevill, the
Preside Live Stock Company and others,
and says stock Ct all kinds could not be
doing better than ct present. Mr.. Thomp-
son took in his Mesa ranch on the rip,
which lies west of the Crosson range, and
selected suitable location for wells, which
will be dug at once, and the sheep owned
by himself, z. L. Gage and others placed
on this range Fort DsVis News.
Mr.. Dennis O'Connor, one OF the part
ners in he banking house Of O'Connor &
owners and rancheros in Southwestern
Texas, speaks in the most enthusiastic
manner of the outlook for the live stock
interests Ct that section of the country.
Although he has an abundance of water
In his extensive ranches, he has deter
mined to supplement his water supply
with artesisn wells, and on Monday next
will begin boring with the largest well
f1
O'Connor has also just completed dam
five miles in length in his pasture in
Refugio county.
Mrs. Mabel Day, the Texas cattle
queen, canie up from Coleman yesterday;
ar1 IS registered st the Windsor. Mrs.
Day is thoroughly charmed with Denver,
and is understood to have come up for
the purpose OF securing good suburban
size upon which to erect handsome
residence, The lady's well known apathy
to schss1ing suitors has relieved her of
much trouble, but she is understood
to have resolved that Denver is the
proper pace for her, and will erect s
residence that will be credit to
herself and Denver. Mrs. DAY refutes
the story circulated regarding her adven-
ture with New York sutton who went to
the Lone Star state to WOO her, but 1t Is
believed to have some foundation in fact.
The pair of horns carried by the cowboy
band, which is said to be the largest
owned by any person in the country, are
not as large as pair that grace the draw
ing room entrance of Mrs. Days Coleman
mansion. The horns measure from tip
to tip i've feet eight inches.-(Denver
News.
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