Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-08
ROUND-UPS.
The Facts About the Purchase OF The
Qui to Que Ranch BY Good-
night & Moore.
The Aztec Land and Cattle Company Find
Market in California-WhR5
1t Indicates.

There is some little animation in the
local market.
Very few sales Of range stock have yet
been made, so far as learned.
-.
Seymour Scimiter: Jim Fridge, one Of
Baylor county's thrifty and rustling
stockmen, q few weeks since sold to par
ties in Fort Worth 100 head of steer
vearlings st $3.50 per head. AS the
days for wild speculation in cattle are
numbered among the things of the past,
these figures would indicate that cattle
are gradually working their way back to
the old standard price, and the day is not
far ahead when it is thought by cowmen
that the ruling figures for stock cattle
will be SIS.
From Judge J. l. Darnell OF Seymour,
who yesterday came to Fort Worth from
Dallas after conyersing with gentlemen
prominently connected with the trsnsAc-
ton, true statement of the Qui to Que
ranch trade has been learned. The prop
erty exchanged from Lady Adsir to
Charles Goodnight and Mr.. +. P.
Moore of Kansas City, consists
of the Qui to Que lands,
amounting to 1877 900 acres
with is. 900 head of cattle and the pur-
chase money paid was on basis of 81 %
per acre, being altogether 1854, 900. 1t
is understood Goodnight now has con-
troll of all the property in the Panhandle
hitherto owned in part by Lady Adair,
ha Of [ba yn&o - T.
Moore in the above mentioned ranch.
There are three ranches, the Tule Canon,
the j A at Pale Duro, and the
Out to Que. The ranges are very
fine, those on the Tule canon
ranch, being said to De the finest pasture
land in Texas; and Goodnight's cattle are
all very well bred, for that gentleman has
of late years spent great deal of money
in the importation OF thoroughbred
breeders.
From the 1883 report OF Henry Warren,
manager Of the Aztec Land and Cattle
Company, to the stockholders, the fol-
lowing Is taken: In 1886 our steers net
ted in Chicago 5000. The market was
still lower in 1857, and had we sent our
steers east, the result would have been
ruinous. In March last We made our
first sale to the Southern California mar
ket. From April to September they fat
ten their own beef there, consequently
we made no sales during the sum.
mer. Though money was scarce, and
hard to get for use in the cattle bust
ness, your management determined to
hold our steers at all hazards, and wait
for the fall and winter market in Sosth-
ern California. Our sales began again in
November, and will probably continue
through January, February and March at
good prices. Should the population of
Southern California continue to increase
st the present rapid rate, We shall have 3
market throughout the year, IS the local
supply Of beef will be insufficient, even
during the summer months. We could not
move any cattle last year from the
Pecos river in Texas, owing to qusrSn-
tine restrictions in New Mexico and Ari-
iona. About zoo head were gathered
along the Pecos in New Mexico above the
Texas line, and driven to the Arizona
ranch, together with 175 horses. No
rainfall OF any consequence occurred on
the Pscos until August. Cattle suffered
greatly, and [ estimate our loss st 1000
uc1O' VIC SaLnS4cO OOO t04J Lnlu sLScLS
there in July, and shipped them to good
pasture in Parker county, Texas,
where they ere doing as well as
could be expected, and can prob
ably be sold to advantage this year.
Since the rains, the grass on the Peccs
has been excellent, and our cattle there
will winter we'll. The value Of our herd
has not bsen diminished by sales OF young
and immature steers, nor of young She
cattle. 1t is In q condition to pay an in
come each year, and to increase rapidly.
Our calf crop wss not so large ss I hsd
expected, but this is accounted for by the
fact that, in 1856, our shipments from
Texas to Arizons we're necessarily made
during the breeding season, and con-
sisted LARGELY Of mother. COWS.