Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-12

R0UND-UpS.
Sale Of 10000 head Of tt xss CSttIe to
10 10 this Cherokee
strip.
Feeding Cattle Not Making Much Head
. way In North Texas-Prominent Non
tsna Cattle Buyers In Fort Worth.
j. Lea, a well known stockmSn OF
New Mexico, is in Fort Worth.
"a
Colonel A. VI. Hilliard, one Of the lcl-
lest stockmen of West Texas, 1as in
Fort Worth yesterday.
Fri Coggsh.ll and Henry Juster, two
well known stockmen CT Miles City,
Mont, are in the city with an eye to
business.
". G. Rogers, a Fort Worth stock
dealer, who has been up the Fort Worth
and Denver Rosd looking after cattle
matters for some time, has returned to
the city.
The sale CT 10000 lead of
three and four-vesr tlds by
Pierce and Coonts at $lS around has been
whispered to q reporter by good author
!ty. The purchasers are from the Chero-
kee strip.
4. 3. Combs of the commission house
of Carupoell & Co, has recently made &
trip over the feeding belt of North Texas,
ana says the cattle are not making much
headway against the bad weather that has
prevailed for so loIg time.
The st. Paul Globe prints an extensive
report from the open ranges OF tie north
west. The testimony uniformly main
aims that there have been comparatively
no losses from the winter storms. The
reason is that those storms, although OF
great severity, were not prol onged enough
to kill cattle that were not old or in q
very reduced condition. The beginnin G
Of WIUter iouni range stock generally in
good fix. The reports on this subject
which nave appeared IN some Of the lead
ing papers were sensational and without
basis Of fact.
Throughout the extent Of the range
country, from the northern to the south
ern boundary, there is marked interest
in the coming International range con-
vsntion. The only discouraging words
that have been noticed come from a
small clique Of individuals who have been
twicegF disappointed in attempting to
Jockey Legitimate schemes through
| tks pr vIous conventions. They were so
kefectuslly suppressed on both occasions
| that G little resentment Is natural, and
Can do no harm since the motive which
inspires is so we'll known to range cattle.
men. The outlook for big gathering
on the 2Sth at Denver is 81! that
could be wished. There are strong hopes
OF doing something thss will materially
benefit the industry.
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II is of great importance that all stock
men of Fort Worth who believe that this
city possesses the greatest advantages fol
the location of s refrigerator should &C
up to Gainesville to attend the
meeting of the Northwest Texas
Live Sock Association which
conVenes on Tuesday. The members Of
this association are from the countr
I directly tributary to Fort Worth, and they
look upon this city as the point ths'
| should be selected by the executive CON-
m:ttee Of the Texas Live Stock Asso-
citation for the location Of the refriger
etor. This executive committee meets q
Gainesville Tuesday to decide upon the
! location. Subscriptions amounting t
t5s00, 900, which are under the control q.
| this committee, were raised, principally
among Southern Texas cattlemen, with &
| little help from Northwest Texas, anC
there is no reason to DOUBT that this en-
te-prise could be put on its feet: Be-,
80
The live stock market report OF March
II says: The market for fat native ship
pers of good strong weights ruled active
| al Tue HlSne6t punt Va ZIG goaA1 OuH GuS
half-fatted and Immature stock was lit
tie slow st the advance established Mon
day and Tuesday. There were mo-
enough handy butchers cattle o.
any description on the marke
to supply the demspd, and the shsrp com
petition of the various buyers added sd
dition4l strength to the market. There
were but few Texas cattle on the market
enc load OF cactus and cotton seed meal
fed steers selling TO the dressed-beef in
terest at SO 60, load OF wintered Texans
st IS, and load of fed Texas bulls q
| So 60. The cactus-fed steers forwarded
to Cricsgo on Tuesday sold there to day
lat So SIS. and the csctus-fed COWS ST S2.7
per 100 pounds.
4 prominent Fort Worth gentleman In
terested in the cattle industry said, yes
terdsy, that the cactus-fed cattle O
Sout. ern Texas we're bringing a better
-fprice on the market than the Corn-fet
stock of TIE northern part of the state
The stockmen who have availed them
selves of the plan to put their beef cattle
in shape are highly grstiiet
with the results attained, and feel SO con
fident Of their ability to secure goot
prices for their product, that they are be
coming independent Of the buyers, man,