Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-26
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
The Benefits to Accrue TO The Land
Owner from the Settlement OF
the West.
The Natural Growth and Condition Of the
Country Have Lsssened the Profits
of Rsnge Cattle Growing.

The Natural Growth and Condition Of the
Country Have Lsssened the Profits
of Rsnge Cattle Growing.
It is estimated that so, 900 COWS were
speyed on the western ranges during the
year 1887.
The local market is not very brisk just
now. Stockmen are getting prepared for
the spring work.
Four carloads OF range cattle sold in
Fort Worth during the past week for
Texas butchers brought cents per
pound. -
The stock ranges of Eastern New Mex
leo have suffered considerably from prai
RE fires started by the carelessness of
railroad campers on the new lines that sre
being built.
A letter received By gentleman In
Fort Worth yesterday from Manager Mat
lock OF the Capitol Syndicate ranges, says
the cattle on the northern and middle
pastures have not suffered to sny great
degree from the weather thus far this
winter, but since the norther CT ten days
ago nothing has been heard from the
southern part OF the ranch. No great
damage is fesred, for the cattle would not
drift far without being stopped by other
ranches.
Mr.. G.. G. Pickett, Of the Townsend
Pickett Cattle Company, sWhose ranch Is
in the lows reservation, l. T., Wss in the
city yesterday, having come directly from
the ranch to Fort Worth. Mr.. Pickett
says the heavy norther which swept over
the country was the severest he ever felt
in his section OF country, after residence
there of ten years. The mercury got
down to To- below zero. The cattle have
not died in any great numbers, but they
have been greatly drawn and reduced, es-
pecially young cattle.
Las Vegas Stock Grower: a Texas
nomad named Hall. who Is leisurely drift
Ing across Grant county, had his herd cut
last week and various Grant county cat
tlemen recovered number Of head OF
stock Hall had picked up In his travels
The average Texas cattleman is not heart.
lily welcomed in New Mexico by reason oil
his eccentricities which show themselves
In many reprehensible ways wherein the
law Of mine and thine is not too carefully
observed, especially if there are any STRAY
cattle in the Texans path.
The Ballinger Leader In calling the st.
, tentioa Of the farmers and landowners Il
, the benefits to accrue to them from TIL
, settling OF the west, has this TO say: 9TH
time once was in Western Texas Whel
cat.le raising on the rsnge was profita
BILE, but the natural growth and condition
r of the country have greatly lessened tn
e profits of the industry, from the fact tina
in former years q man could run all tn
= cattle be was fortunate enough to own o.
( | free range, with no cost except tn
g branding and gathering ofhis cattle Unds
e the present circumstances the interest o,
8 the money invested in so much wild an
!, uncultivated land is worth more than tn
? profits on all the long horned cattle th
Land will support. It takes about tel
= acres on an average TO raise an ANNA
: and it takes four years use OF the te
acres to make the animal worth $40
it happens to be 8 be ca!tle-0ut other
wise in four years it will not be worth S
e much. Putting the value Of $50 on tn
8 ten acres, and the average land Of tn
county is well worth that amount, at l
. per cent. the interest in four years coul
J, amount to SIP on the land, and then 20
e must have $40 cow to bring this CT
! and look after him the f:st year. tn
;, interest on the $40 invested in the COW
e at 10 per cent. will amount to So in th
? four years, making the investment
the COW and the land at 10 per cen
interest $40 or about the price Of q four
year-old steer. TIE profit over 10 pe
cent. can be invested In replacing th
b lost, stolen or starved ones, Of which th
stockman can always count On e'feW. TIL
profit in raising stock in the future mu!
r. come from raising improved stock an
. cultivsting your land 60 raise feed &c
them. We must close this chapter Il
y the present, but may say more in OF
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