Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-03
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
A Line 10 be Laid Down Dividing the
Infected and Nau.Tniected
Portions OF Texas.
a Reen Business Man Stakes His Pile or
the Conviction That Better Times
Arc Surely Coming.

Fort Worth dealers Yesterday received
orders from Houston for several head oil
fine stock. Those who want breeders
know where the mart OF Texas for that
line of article is to he found.
Yesterday the directors CT the Llaro
Cattle Company net Et the Office of the
president st Fort Worth. Most OF the
dsy YVES consumed Ia going over the &C.
counts OF the officers, and to-day the new
officers OF the company Will be elected.
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Mr.. j. NJ. Kuhn returned yesterday
from trip TO Laredo. When asked il
there WAS anything new in the part OF the
state in which he had been, he said no,
but the cattle were in the finest condition
ne had ever seen them anywhere at this
time Of the year and the grass was better
than it may be expected 10 be IN North
Texas n M.y.
Mr.. Ramon Guerra, OF BenaVides,
Hidalgo county, last week sent carload
of Texas horses 10 the
Fort Worth market for sale. 1t
is very seldom stock from that section OF
the state IS put on market SO far north,
and it is gratifying to know that the con-
signment has already been disposed Of.
Powell Bros. received yesterday from j.
Bush, q fine stock breeder of Centralis,
Mo-, thirty-eight head OF fancy young
cattle, consisting Of grade and thorough
bred Durhams and grade Polled Angus.
The number Of fine stock exchanged at
Fort Worth this winter has never been
fqualed before and the season has no
more than opened as yet.
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AS indicating the view taken by those
Interested in stockgrowirg of the present
depressed state of that industry, stock
holder in the Llano Company, who has
never seen boof CT the cattle he is inter.
ested in, but who is man of fine busI-
ness sense and acumen, telegraphed the
directors Of thst company, who met in
this city yesterday, as follows: "Hold
the forti Better times are coming!
(SigDed) II. D. Likens, Knox county,
Mo"
Mr.. II. M. Taylor, western sgent of the
Bureau OF Animal Industry, left last even
ing for Colorado and the northwest.
Before leaving he said extra efforts were
being msde by the Bureau to collect data
wherein could be based some division OF
the state Of Texas into what can be def
nitely denominated infected and non-in-
fected portions, and il is the collecting of
this dsta that calls Mr.. Taylor north.
The most important subject that will
come before the next convention Of the
international Range Association, which
Will meet in Denver about the middle Of
March, will be the exsmination Of cffi-
cisl veterinarians of the western
stock country, who will be invited TO at
tend the convention to meet agents of
the Bureau OF Animal Industry, who will
likewise be invited. There will be large
numbers OF Texas cattle shipped north
this year by rsii, and it is the Intention of
the Denver convention to have the Bu-
reau take some action toward the de-
termination Of line, north of which cat
tie msY be considered healthy, so that The
rail shipments may go through without
restriction.
Mr. Taylor will be gone about
ten days. He expects that large num-
Der of Texas stockmen will attend the
Denver meeting, with which end in view ne
has been one 80 ask the directors Of the
Association to postpone the meeting
until the Fort Worth and Denver road is
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