Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-28
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Ths Sasep Growing Bussness In Texas
hiss basn UnusuzIls Successful this
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hiss basn UnusuaIls Successful this
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The Msxwcn Laod Grant Ocmpany eur.
okes Strlp-rhs Nov, M snt OF Cattle.
Several train loads OF stock bslongir
to the Tx ranch and TO Charles Good.
night have been sent to Kansas for rang
ing during the past week.
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A half-dozen palace stock cars wen,
south over the Santa Fe Yesterday even
ing TO Corpus Christi. They were OF the
kind known ss the Ssnta Fe route cars.
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Mr.. Wilson WaddInghem. \ well known
capitalist OF New Mexico, has leased 100,-
600 sores in the Cherokee strip from Bsl-
linger 4Stoop, and will place thereon to
grazs into wealth 5000 head Of steers.
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There are few sheep going through
Fors Worth to the northern markets
every d.y. They are mostly OF fair
quality, but many are extra fine. There
were ten carloads In Folks yard yester-
day going from Lampasas to Kansas City.
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s. B. Eorbis Of johnson county has
been in the city few days with several
carloads OF beeves, in Polk's yards, which
he has offered to local slsughterers, but
not finding the market in need of his
stock, he will take them on to the north
He has returned home TO. some more
cattle to fill out train load. They are
due locking beeves. all the steers running
over 1000 pounds, and the COWS over $50
80
The mutton raising business in Texas
appears, from reports from different sec.
tons, to have been unusually successful
this year, and flock owners are satisfied
with their present conditions and with the
prospects for the future. The Landing
season has passed, and 1t is safe estt-
mate that 80 per cent Of the lambs have
been saYe0. Those who have placed NUT
tons on the market have received prices
for them that they deemed satisfactory.
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Smith 6 Forsylhe nave shipped 1000
head OF Cattle from Canadian City to the
strip for psstursgs. Mr.. Smith of that
firm hiss just purchased from Charles
Goodnight $500 head Of the W brand,
which will wipe out that brand. Tnose
purchased are fours and fves, and for
merry belonged to the London Cattle
Company. The price paid was $23. 80 per
head. These will also be placed in the
CAes6kee Strip for pasturage.
%The stockmen Of the Panhandle OF
HexaS are taking hold OF the matter of
'up breeding their nerds IS rapidly, con-
si6ering the conditions of their business,
as those of other sections of the state
where such enterprise is more highly
SAaQGh*sQszdd receives more commenda-
tl0H The Canadian Free Press of last
week msntisas the passage OF ten
carloads OF Herefords and Gsllowsys
through that place en- route to Cheyenne,
Texas.
.TkgS Maxwell Cattle Company pur-
chsxxd recently 1000 COWS, three and
faAf5year olds of J. B. Dawson & Son.
Effs lot Of COWS was purchased last sum-
Hder by Messrs: Dawson from Texas par
de. Mr.. Gluten, for the Maxwell
caEl pany, takes the whole lot on the
rsnsszt, aG800. TIE company has also
purchaSed the circle A brand of cattle,
numbering 1000 head, Of Messrs. Devine
& Merton, to be delivered on the Max
well range this summer at $12 so per
hFp4s There Is rpmcr also that the
Maxwell Company is negotiating for the
Ford herds ss the same figures paid for
the circle AS. They are buying ont ell
the dissatisfied settlers who do not care
to become tenants Of the gr.nt company.
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The following herds Of csttle have
crossed the Canadian river, going north
during the past week.
Reynolds Land and Cattle Company,
two herds consisting OF 3400 in charge OF
Butler, and one herd of 100 It. charge Of
W. R. Moor. They consist Of steers
from ones up, with the exception Of $50
COWS. They are from Throckmorton
county. Crossed the river at the old
Jones & Plummer crossing and are bound
for Dakota via Colorado.
Smithson { Co. had two herds Of 1900,
one in charge Of W. F. Smith, forded at
the Springer crossing, one herd Of 100
in charge Of W. G. Mckinney crossed at
the same place. These cattle were not
in very good condition. They are bound
for the Pswnee Agency.
Bunton, Porter & Taylor, Porter In
charge. crossed at the Springer crossing
with 99S, bound for Dsy's pasture in the
Territory.
The Matador also crossed with one
herd, bound for Dakota.