The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-08
STOCK NOTES
Gathered from All Over the Great
Range.
Market Values of Cattle and
Sheep, and Other Items of
Interest to Stockmen.
COLORADO oLrppER

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Geo. A. Scaling shipped fifteen cars of
beef cattle to market Tuesday.
A.. p. Bush sold PSI steers, s75 pounds, in
Kansas City last week at $2.45.
A. W. Hudson shipped fifteen carloads
of cattle to Chicago last Saturday.
Seventy to ninety two pound sheep sold
In Chicago last week at from 81 05 to
1886.
The Nave MoCord cattle company
shipped fifteen cars of cattle to Chicago
yesterday.
Judge j. M. Frazier, of Toyah, recently
sold $500 stock cattle to the Sierra Land
and Cattle company at $3.50 round.
John Carlisle was in st. Louis this week
and bought the Rake B ranch and cattle.
j. N. Ellis will be here about November
with from 800 to 500 three to four-year
old steers, feeders, which he will offer for
sale cheap. All good cattle.
Earnest Bros. have been rounding up
their pasture this week and branding
calves. They have number of fat beeyes
ready for shipment, but will hold them
until the market shows an improvement.
Last week while at Amorilla Clay Mann
sold his eighty brand of cattle and horses
to I. N. Ivy, for the sum Of $4,000. The
brand consists of 5000 cattle and 75
horses. The cattle are ranging in San
Miguel county, N. M.
SAN ANGELO STANDARD.
Seaton Keith sold to Andrews a. Gates
between 800 and 400 calves, which are to
be fed this winter in Eastern Texas.
John Gaddis sold seventy head of two's
and three's and up to Major Erskine, on
the 25th, for $1,000.
Returns have just been received from a
shipment Of spring wool that was sent to
Galveston last spring from this country
1t Melted 8 cents. Galveston is gigantic
failure as wool market.
Fayette Trankersley will ship 400 head
of fat COWS to market on the 9th of next
month. He says that Wilson 4 Tankers-
ley and the S ranch will ship 10000
head of cattle to the Nation early in the
spring, and unless the Santa Fe enlarges
their pens here the cattle will be driven to
Colorado City.
MoBEETIE PANHANDLE.
Mr.. Sheehan has sold his cattle to p. e.
Carroll and Geo. Deans.
A bunch of j A cattle, averaging 1900
pounds, we're sold in Kansas City last
week at 8 cents per pound.
Frank Cole was studying the latest mar
ket reports in Mobeetie last Friday. He
had shipped two carloads of beeves and
was anxious about the market.
A beef roundup has been in progress
in the North Fork and Mcclellan range
the past week. Circle @ and j A cattle
are the principal brands being cut
There has been shipped from Panhan-
die City up to date, October 26, 1890 cars
of cattle over the Santa Fe since April IL.
FORT WORTH STOCK JOURNAL.
L. W. Pease shipped three double
deck carloads OF muttons to st. Louis,
which he picked up in Bandera county.
OF the cattle purchased by Doctor Ed
wards from the Western Land q Live
Stock company, 1000 steers 90 TO Mr..
Wick, of Little Rock, Ark, to be fed at an
oil mill and cost $500 per hundred weigh
ed upon delivery.
Henry Burns, Of San Antonio bought
double deck carload of muttons OF John
Wickland, of Bexar county, for $2.25 per
head, with the fall fleece on. They we're
shipped north the middle of the week.
DR.. J. L. Edwards, OF Ennis, has pur-
chased 3,400 steers from the Western Land
a. Live Stock company. These cattle are
to be shipped on the beef market.
Ben Hackett, of Fort Worth, has sold
recently to Huffman q Ellis $50 head of
two-year- old steers, to W. A. Huffman 400
yearlings, and to s. B. Burnett 100 head of
two-year-old steers.
CATTLE rates will be higher as soon as
the weighing system is generally adopted,
so says ST. Louis telegram.
The Continental Cattle company will
place 5000 head Of cattle in the Dixie
pastures to be wintered and pastured until
next May.
The sale of sheep in Texas of late do
not denote anything like desire upon the
part Of feeders and farmers to fatten NUT.
tons for market, and this is a misfortune
for the sheep interest and for the farmer
also. Last spring sheep sold or Q cents
higher than cornfed cattle, and probably
will do SO again.
Mr.. Wells, manager OF the Five Wells
Cattle company In the Midland district,
has just sold 800 head Of steers, fours up
and fat, at $26 per head on the range.
The cattle will weigh 1,050 pounds average
in market, and we're purchased by Messrs.
Doran Bros, of Dallas. Mr.. Wells says
that his district is more heavily stocked
than other ranges, and the condition of
his beef lie as much due TO careful hand
ling as TO good range.
The beef trade is very slow In south
west Texas just now, as ranchmen want
Chicago prices, which, of course, does not
offer shippers any msrgin. Bot the
trouble is that at present Chicago prices
are not more than we should realize here
on the ranch, and as we are not forced TO
sell, We can wait till that market improves.
The Live Stock Weighing association
declare that the weighing system will go
into effect on the Southwestern roads" in
q few days. Do the Southwestern
roadsr include the Texas railroads. This
Is what we are oontending for, snd have
been for many months, and II can't come
100 soon, as our beef stock will soon be.