The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-04
Range Notes Gathered From The
Statesman's Exchanges.
Prices of Cattle and Other Stock
Matters of Interest 10
Stockmen.

Goats' ''''............ 'Io0gl'z0
hogs, gross. .............. 5OO@5OO
During the week among others the fol-
lowing stockmen were in town:
Crosby, of Llano, seventy head; j. W.
Mathews, f Llano, fourty head; H,
t. Dunn, of Llano, thirty head; A. d.
Merchison, of Bastrop, thirteen head.
There were others in, but The STATES
MAN could not learn their names.
All of the above stock we're for butchers,
and Ed. Haigler bought the most of
them.
COLORADO CLIPPER.
A. P. Bush sold 1920 yearlings this
week to A. Nicholson, of Fort Worth.
Terms private.
Doak Good sold eighty eight and
4-year-o.d steers to A. W. Dunn this
week, at $50 round.
A. W. Dunn bought lot of 800 mixed
cattle last week, one and two-year old
steers, heifers and cows, at 81 round.
Gstewood d Brakebill bought seven car
loads of beef cattle from t. H. Snyder
last Saturday, at good price.
Ira Duckworth shipped one car of cat
tie to Chicago last Saturday, T. S. Snyder
six oars and G. A. Scaling four cars.
Burt Simpson sold 767 seventy-s seven
pound sheep in Chicago last week, at
$3.1215, and $40 eighty-two Founders at
$3.50.
All yearlings are now long yearlings, and
all twos are long twos, and for the first
time in several years are selling on their
merits and age.-Live Stock Journal.
E. ]. Simpson, of the Aztec Cattle conf
pany, recently drove herd of cattle from
the range of the Continental Cattle com
pany, at Weatherford, Tex, to Holbrook,
A. r., at total ex pense of seventy cents
per head, and with loss of only six head
out of bunch of $50.
DIR. W. X. Lewis returned last Saturday
from Van Horn, where he has been at
work on large job of spaying for j. G.
Ford. He left Sunday for the Magnolia
ranch, where he has contract for 700
head from there to W. O. Bishops for
for 1000 head.
SAN ANGELO STANDARD.
Bird g. Metz received this week for the
Las Moras ranch in Menard county,
eighty head of Cotswold rams. Wethers
from this ranch sold IN Chicago last fall
for top price and weighed 122 pounds.
j. A. Caldwell says that in his opinion
the price of wool will range this fall from
! 10 to 16 cents per pound. He sold $500
pounds of this seasons wool for Lapowski
& Bro. at 10 cents.
Messrs, Knapp, Williams g. Rappleye a
few days ago received 3-year-old Nor
man Stallion from the north. 1t is the
finest year-old ever brought to this sec.
ton.
On September 10 Captain William Tur-
ner traded 1920 ewes to P. B. Irvine for
204 head of stock cattle.
Jefferson, Mile: g. Ellis, of Kickapoo
springs, sold 600 steer yearlings for 81 so
and 100 twos for $11.50, to S. j. Blocker,
of North Concho, to be delivered on Sep
TENDER 26.
FORT WORTH STOCK JOURNAL.
Geo. Kinney, of Ness City, Kan. is offer
ing to trade Kansas ranch for Western
Texas cattle.
Maj. j. W. Burgess has returned tc
Fort Worth after making tour OF
Kentucky and Missouri fairs.
The cattle markets were full on Monday
last, there being 1900 in st. Louis, 1900
in Kansas city and $4,000 in Chicago.
1t is reported from Colorado city that
Mr.. A. W. Dunn purchased small stock
of cattle containing no beef steers at 81
around.
1t is said that the Cherokee Strip Cattle
association has Dissolved. For all this the
Cherokee strip will again be offered for
lease and will be leased.
The large runs on the mark ct denote
nothing except that men who eed money
will sell anything they have. Cattle are
becoming reasonably scarce in Texas.
Messrs. Hatcher, Woods d CoppiDger
have sold 200 more young colts at $5 per
head; fifty of them go to Illinois and the
remaining $50 will be matured in this
vicinity
The drive to Kansas may as we'll stop al
once. The rates are not restored, but to-
day the cattle rate between Kansas City
and Chicago is to be raised to $50 instead
of $50 as it was before the cut.
Three lots of Texas sheep sold at st
Louis ON Tuesday. There we're 432, aver
age So pounds, at So 35; 2O9 Texas sheep
70 pounds, at 1915; 116 Texas sheep, &c
pounds, at SO. If wethers can be bought
in Texas on the above basis there ought to
be money in feeding them.
j. Lytle d Co, Maverick county, have
sent 1000 muttons to the City of" Mexico
where they find better market than in
Chicago. That is business, and this fall
and winter we will probably have Cali
fornia here again as a competitor OF
Chicago.
81 cannot praise Hoods Sarsaparillf
half enough" says a mother whose son
almost blind with scrofula, was cured By
this medicine.