Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-19
BEEF REFRIGERATION.

suAutE lhtt6ueu, T EOm NONcuUcI unbn
M,y Texas cattle were generally ur At Tor
t1e butcher pen. Those who are In po-
sition to prt a. By experience have said
that beef refrigeration in Texas would
have to wait for an "sll the year round
supply" Further, 1t was stated that an
improvement In Texas cattle in quality
a1d weight was necessary In order to
furnish 8 quantity of ripe fat matured
beef weighing upwards OF thousand
pounds. TIE GAZETTE is in position
to say that both conditions are iplhiled,
and that the oil tie yesr round supply OF
marketable betves can be hsd IN Tezss,
and further than this THR GAZETTE
would prove that Fort Worth is
the most tvsiIstle Point fer concentra-
tion CT the cattle OF the class required.
The cattle association centerlng upon
the city of Houston last week and meet
ing at that city sent forth to the world 4
complaint that the railroads would not
give them 8 proper rate for the trauspor-
tation of their cattle. The natural sup
position OF persons not initiated into
Texas cattle matters would be that the
stcckmen centeriDg upon Houston had
prime beeves to ship TO the great beef
ms1kets and they wanted to get them put
in dressed beef coolers at once. The de-
plorable fact remains, however, that the
stockmen OF the Houston district have no
beef and never had enough beef In the
Houston district worthy Of the name to
supply the locsl Houston market.
Tax GAZETTE does not hesitate to as
sert that the Southeast Texas CGttlemeD'E
Association wanted to get rates to ship
young cattle out OF the Houston district
where such cattle cannSi De metured and
fsttened, into the Fort Worth territory,
where they can be fAttened-4od ripsned
for msrket. The men wanted rates to
transport cattle to the Panhandle and to
North vest Texss, known to tie directly
tributary to Fort Worth By N cans of the
Fort Worth and Denver Railroad. They
wanted rates 10 points on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad in tie Iodisn Terri
tory, 600 miles from Houston, but
only $50 miles from Fort Worth. They
were also asking rates for such places
as Purcell In the In ilaa Territory, only
l75 miles from Fort Worth and 4S5 miles
from Houston. Allowing this country to
be most excellent cattle maturing
and permitting (by .eourtt sy Of
the Houston POSI- that Fort Worth is a
cattle market-then is all the territory
the Houston cattle are shipped to nearer
to Fort Worth than to St. Louis or Kan
sas City.
The position taken BY THE GAZETTE
csn be verified by the stOckmen meeting
at Houston. Let those who would es-
tsblish refrigersting establishment In
Southeast Texas interview the great
Shanghai" Pierce, whose life has been
spent driving and shipping steers that
would not fatten, out Ct the HOus-
ton district. Let them interview Mr..
D. r. FAINT, who was also at the'meetiDg.
whose steers are now f4ttening near
Camp Supply in the Indian Territory,
nearer to Fort Worth than to any other
important city In the cattle trade. Call
on j. A. McFAdden and A. C. Jones,
prominent stock men who attended the
and many others who are desir.
Gus OF taking their csttle out OF district
known to be the best country on earth TO
multiply cattle but she poorest country
on earth to rsise them to quality a. for
the dressed-beef trade.
The railroad system centering upon the
city of Fort Worth wss not built in vain
The Denver Road, with a dowr-hill pull,
will give better rates to Fort Worth from
Denver than other Tosds win TO Ksnsac
City, and the famed Colorado steer will
be tributary TO Fort Worth equally with
other markets. The Chicsgo and Ro, K
Island coming down from Caldwell, Kan
running tfr)ugh beef country fully
eq1sl TO the Santa Fe territory or that II
the Missouri Pacific, will make the fourth
line cen;erlpg on Fort Worth, running
through the greatest grass, bsef.fsttening
territory In the world. Then sgsin, the
Texas sac Pacific, with soc mile
sweep westward through beef
only second to the great
beef country just named, aided
,y the Fort Worth Western now
building and the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande now extending, absolutely cen
rolls the grsE!ng territory of the west.
Southwark and eastward into the corn
eedirg cattle country are the Santa Fe,
he Missouri Pacific. the Central rail-
.osds, and east and north the Tssnscon-
mental, the Cotton Belt, and again the
Texas and Pacific is feeder Of Fort |
Worth. Is Fort Worth the center of the
,eef trafH,i He who denies 1t knows |
lot what he says. Grsst as NAV be sup |
lies OF beef put out rom
Texas and the Indian rerritor,,
hipping fully SOC. GOO to Chicago and
bout the same TO other markets,
ne great msjority are directly tributary
o Fort Worth.
Not only is the beef cattle n Texas and
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