The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-04
THE GREAT RANGE
Items of Interest Gathered From
Exchanges for Stockmen,
Sale of Cattle at Different Points
Horse and Sheep Notes.
COLORADO CLIPPER.


tie to Chicago Friday.
Num- Bros. shipped twenty-nine cars of
cattle TO Chicago Sunday.
J.B. Wilson shipped three cars of cattle
to Alfred, 1. T., Thursday.
NJ. q. Smissen shipped fourteen car
loads of beef to Chicago Thursday.
Chas. Kenyon bought Ambrose Petty's
fall clip of wool this week at IA cents.
j. B. Dale has orders filled for fifty car
loads of cattle to be shipped October /
fourteen cars to Bonham, twenty to Sher-
man and sixteen to Kansas City,
Col. G. G. Slaughter will have on exhibi-
ton at the fair a cross between buffalo
bull and Texas COW. The animal will
attract great attention.
j. A.Thompson sold his fall clip of wool,
nine sacks, to R L. Crowdus this week at
1t was a remarkably clean and light clip.
Winfield Scott bought 800 three and
| four-year old steers from the Jumbo Cat
tie company Saturday. Terms private.
Mr.. Scott will leave them ON the Jumbo
ranch during the winter, and not market
until spring.
Pete Scoggins and Boley Brown, of
Double Mountain, drove down 800 steers
for shipment Tuesday, and sold to D. F.
White at $21.30 round. White in turn
sold them to Geo. A. Scaling in q few
hours at an advance of 5000.
SAN ANGELO STANDARD.
| S. j. Blocker sold to f. G. Oxsheer, of
Colorado City, 1,200 head of ones and
twos.
j. R. Mas worthy sold 800 stock sheep to
Vincent Vincent, of Midland, at $1.50 per
head.
d. McKie sold to Kennon g. Lyell 3,17S
head of stock cattle at So for ones, Sc
for twos and IS for COWS.
Sam Montgomery and Doctor Gadis sold
to s. j Blocker their stock of ones and
twos. About 800 in number.
jefferson. Miller g. Elliott, of Kickapoo
springs, sold 600 steer yearlings for $3.50
and 100 twos for $11.5O, to S. j. Blocker,
of North Concho, to be delivered on the
26th inst.
Messrs. Knapp, Williams & Rappleye a
few days ago received a three-year old
Norman stallion from the north. 1t is the
finest three-year old ever brought to this
section.
MoBEETIE PANHANDLE.
The Prairie Cattle company shipped
800 head of beeves to Kansas City this
week.
H. Hamburg and W s. Decker came
in from Canadian Tuesday. Mr.. Ham
burg has lately put 5000 head of cattle out
to pasture in the Neutral Strip and will
receive 1,200 more from the Spade ranch
on the LIST of October. He has about GOO
tons of hay and fodder stacked at his two
stock farms in this county.
The Capitol company shipped from
Rivers this week another batch of beeves,
numbering 2OSO head and loading five
trains. They go to Chicago, to Nelson
Morris. This makes nearly 10000 head
of besves shipped out by this company,
and they will send nearly as many more.
Nothing but tours and upwards are being
sent, and this is the first season when
they have sold any of any age.
FORT WORTH STOCK JOURNAL.
Seldom has the San Antonio horse
market been fuller of common horses
than at the present time.
A man was in the San Antonio mark ct
this week for some 1000 head of 2 and B.
year-old steers.
W. T. Searight, of Kinney county, is in
San Antonio. Mr.. Searight has large
stock interests in that county.
w. S. Carothers has purchased the stock
of cattle, 1000 head, bought by Smith &
Majors of Mr.. Turtle, and has leased the
land of Tuttle ranch.
j. d. Houston, of Gonzales, left for
Fort Stock on Ton Saturday to turn over
the remainder of the steers that he sold to
Pressnail d Ragland couple of months
ago.
NORM Bros. recently sold about 300
head of stock horses held in Wilson
county, belonging to the estate of Jose
Flores, for So per head. They were
classed as ordinary, and this is a very
good sale under the circumstances.
Ohio Durant's herd of about 800 head
left Maria, Preside, Tuesday morning fol
Toyah, from whence he will ship them.
partly to Colorado City and partly to
Chicago. Mr.. Durant will leave in day
or two to join the outfit.
Ike Stephens will soon receive the 400
head of steers that he bought of Colin
Campbell, of Ksrnes county, a few days
ago, paying SIG per head. They we're
three-year-o and only few days ago
Mr.. Campbell was offered $1S per head
for them, proving the upward tendency
that cattle have in this section.
James E. Lee, 80 we'll known in south
ern Texas as an extensive beef buyer, is
back from prolonged visit north and a
short trip to the coast. MIR. Lee will
make San Antonio his winter headquar'
tiers, as he has been appointed southern
livestock agent of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific railway, and will see
the boys about shipping over this new
candidate for public patronage.
So far the grass has been too soft gen
orally throughout southwest Texas to put
big fat on the steers, but, with little dry
, weather now to mature the luxuriap'
growth of mesquite grass that now cover:
the face of the land, the prospects for {
large crop of fat winter grass beeve'
were never better than at present writing
Henry Burns sold 100 head of Vernon
: and 100 head of Michigan bucks to San
tiago Sanchez, of Mexico. The improve
ment of the focks of Mexico is expected
: to be pretty general in the near future
and will offer good market for our fin