The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05
STOCK NOTES.
For Cattlemen and Wool Growers.
Prices of Cattle and Sheep and
Movements of the Same.

Mr.. Felix Shaw has just returned from
Tlauo county where ne purchased 100 head
of S-year-olds and upward at $3.50. He
will place them in his pasture.
Ed Haigler is now off on a purchasing
trip.
D. P. Atwood shipped three carloads of
sheep from Big Springs to Chicago last
Wednesday, and Burt Simpson shipped
four carloads of sheep to Chicago from
N Colorado City.-Colorado Clipper.
The Staked Plain says that since May
20 there have been shipped from Midland
1O44 head of cattle, 6,315 mutton and
1922 bags of wool.
Two hundred thousand pounds of wool
we're sold at San Saba Tuesday, at prices
ranging from II to II cents.
A. W. Dunn shipped trainload of
beeves from Midland to Chicago last Sun
day, and Winfield Scott shipped two cars
N of excellent grass fed beeves> from Colo
RADIO City.
Conan & Shear sold this week $4,000
pounds of wool, at prices ranging from II
to IA cents.
D. R. FAINT shipped thirty-five cars of
stock cattle from Corpus Christi to Pur-
cell, Indian Territory. These go via the
Santa Fe road.
Wilkins Bros, of Langtry, bought 200
head of and 5-year- old steers from Scott
) Dole, of Val Verde county, for SIS per
head. They were beeves, and will be
shipped to Chicago.
1t is said that New Mexico rears 1,000,-
900 lambs, and shears 100000 poands
of wool annually.
cattlemdn who, few years ago, could
have cashed up for over 100000, came
out few days ago with 100000 cash, and
did we'll. When asked what he proposes
to do with his money he said: "Buy cattle,
if can find place to put em."-Chicago
] Drovers' Journal.
1t is openly charged by Mr.. Stephens,
\ of Lang d Stephens, butchers of Los An
geles, that one of the largest butchering
/ firms in that market has made an alliance
with Armour d Co. to sell Big -Four beef
and thereby discourage the shipping of
/ live cattle to that market. The Big -Four
is simply preparing the firm guilty of
such conduct for practical kno Wedge of
4 the great swallowing act.-N. M. Stock
Grower.
The Galveston wool market has sold
/ 1885 pounds of wool this season, and has
stock on hand of little over 100000
pounds. The entire receipts, including
through shipments, amount to about
100000 pounds. So that Galveston had
not sold per cent of the receipts up to
the official reports at the end of the last
week Fort Worth Stock journal.
To those who assert that southwest
Texas can only be breeding country, we
refer to the Geo. w. West steers, raised in
j Live Oak county, which never saw an ear
of corn, sold in Chicago last week at
$3.50 per head. That is what the
northern quarantiners did for us; they
made US find out how good and great a
country we have got.-Fort Worth Stock
Journal.
Hugh Burns, of Taylor, recently sold
eighty head of steers to Wright g. Allison
at $28 per head.
Lee g. Adler shipped twenty five cars of
the George Reynt Ids beeves from Reynolds
Station to Chicago last week.
Last Saturday @. B. jackson bought
1850 head of Merino stock sheep from p.
NJ. Hall, of DEVILS river, for 81 800 cash.
San Angelo Standard.
Mr.. Morris, a beef buyer of Waxa-
hachie, bought this week about 600 beeves,
threes and up, from Sam and John Hem
derson, of Kickapoo, at $2050 per head.
He also bought sixteen head from W. j e.
Skinner, at $22.-San Angelo Standard.
1t is now possible to ship cattle from
the Texas Panhandle and md them upon
Montana ranges in a very few days. For
merlv it took the whole summer season,
and the stock being thin in flesh and IN
acclimated laid down by the way5ide and
died during the winter if it happened to
be hard one. The chances being SO
great against Texas cattle passing through
their first winter, and the old trail being
SO obstructed by settlers, drivers
from that state were out of the question
Ell Paso Tribune.
Whether the cattle move slowly or
rapidly in getting back to basis in values
with which the public shall be satisfied,
says the National Stockman, one class OF
men at least are convinced that their bust
ness has touched bottom and is now NOV
ing the other way. Ranchmen feel that
last year was their turning point, and that
whatever the future may have in store fol
them, they are reasonably certain that the
worst is over. Advices indicate that the
feeling among frontier cattlemen il
steadily improving, and at rate which
promises to restore fair degree of con-
fdenoe again. A single fairly good sea
son would be sufficient to bring farm
stock raieers to like way of feeling.