The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-06-21
HOOPS AND HORNS.
News Items Gathered From All
Over the Range.
Movement and Price of Cattle.
Other Items of In
terest.

The local market for cattle has been
dull during the past week.
Rube Caperton went out yesterday to
look at fine bunch OF butcher cattle.
Jim Martin will reach the city to-day
with fine lot of cattle which he proposes
to slaughter.
Prices during the week have been steady
at 81 % to $3.50 for fat beeves, and $12 to
Sl5 for good COWS. Yearlings bring from
81 to Sc,
OVER THE RANGE.
Messrs. Yeager & Withers, LaSalle
county, recently purchased $1,000 worth
of young bulls in Williamson county.
Some 1,400 pounds western range cattle
sold at So per 100 pounds at Chicago last
week.
Messrs. Turner & Napier sold three cars
of three to four-year-old beeves at $12 so
to $19 in San Antonio last week.
About 500 cars of livestock have been
shipped over the Victoria division of the
Southern Pacific during the present
month.
Some twenty five cars of cattle were
shipped from Cuero Tuesday via the
Southern Pacific, mostly to the Chicago
market.
Two men were arrested at Brownswood
on last Thursday inlpossession of 100
horses that were stolen in Preside
county. The names of the parties are
Durlon and Brantley, and they claim to
have bought the horses from one Garner,
of Tom Green county.
Stockmen of this section are at present
in more prosperous condition than they
have been for three or four years. Ship
ments of stock have recently been very
large and sales have been quite sa'isfac-
| tory. Stock are also fat and there is an
abundance of pasturage Bulletin.
Whether or not Arizona, and the west
generally for that matter, can dress the
beef it produces and sell it at a living
rate direct to the consumer without first
sending it through the hands of Armour,
Morris and the other dressed beef mag
mates of Chicago, is the issue that is be-
ing fast forced on the stockmen of the
west. Whether or not it will end in the
dis comfiture of the old ring that has
grown rich by running the cattle business
to suit themselves, will depend entirely on
the stockmen and their ability to unite
and organize dressed beef concerns
throughout the west, which will be under
their own management and CONTROL Hoof
and Horn.
For two years but little money has
been invested in ranch property in any
section. Capitalists have turned their
attention to property which for time
seemed more attractive. A disposition is
manifested this spring, however, to invest
again to a limited extent; and, although
good deal of caution is displayed, it is
plain that confidence is in some degree
strengthening again. The greatest in
vestment that we have heard of for long
time is that of the Goodrich Cattle COM
pany just organized to operate in New
Mexico, with capital of 100000. There
is not likely, though, to be an early and
heavy rush of money In this direction.
And the country can we'll afford to hope
that capital will never again set in cattle
ward as it did few years ago on the
plains.-National Stockman.
The big ranches of California are dis
appearing with frightful rapidity. They
will soon be among the things of the past.
Until very recent years the large ranches
of California were in the nature of pub
lie calamity. The owners could not or
would not cultivate them, nor would they
subdivide and sell them to persons who
would cultivate. The payment of reason
able taxation was skillfully and success
fully parted. The big ranches consti-
tuted for many years barrier to the de-
velopment of California. Most of them,
which in many cases embraced leagues of
land capable of furnishing profitable en-
ployment to large population, consti-
tuted the field of industry of a few
vaqueros. But the day came when the
holding of large uncultivated tracts of
land became too expensive, owing to the
natural and unavoidable increase of taxes. |
Then began the era of their dissolution,
and one after another of the principal do
mains, granted under Mexican rule, to
the dons of that period have been disap- |
pesring.-San Francisco Echoes.