Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-19

4Ef5pelnS FSSaIed Win some pretty naru
,Ss6sies OF the number OF fish he caught
up thaaf4n very short time.
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Trading in cattle a. Albany continues
quite lively, the most i'm ortant purchases
.Seported from lsst week being those Of
Voc steer yearliugs by Webb, Campbell &
Hill, fromH.B Keyser of Esrth county, ana
from the former Of 1900 two and three
year-old steers by D. a. Constable Of
Indisn Territory.
The Hsllettsville Herald says: Through
AfFiend we learn of large ssIe of beef
cattle made last week by Mr.. George W
West, formerly of this county. The sale
consisted of 3S6 beeves at $35 per head
and $50 three year-old heiters at $40 per
head, nggregating Sill 500. These were
all grass cattle from Mr.. Vests Live Oak
county ranch, and from the excellent
price at which they were sold must have
been in the best condition. They were
purchased by James Lee Harris, of Chi
cago. This is thought to be the largest
single sale of beef cattle ever made in
Southwest Texas.
One of the heaviest cattle owners of
North Texas was met Yesterday, who was
extremely anxious for information re-
gardipg the progress of the pending eff
forts to put s refrigerator in operation
in Fort Worth, to whom was rendered
the few facts touching the matter in the
possession OF the reporter. az want TO see
that refrigerator open up in Texas"
said this cattle king, sand when
thas occurs the necessity for live stock
exchange will be brought effectually be-
fore the cattlemen. These suggestions
about q cattle exchange have in them
something more than even their originst-
ors are aware, think. So long as tn
consumption of cattle mot mea) is ceur
tered at one or two pisces, or at points
on direct transportation line from the
place where the cattle ere raised, and so
long IS the manufacture of
meat is Carried on by
three or four firms, sll OF whom work in
each others hands, it does rot seem to
me st all beneficial to establish live
stock exchange, for will not this same
combination Of meat makers still control
the price OF cattle? And, so far IS the
cattle raiser is concerned, the business is
in the same shape IS before. But If this
ring, this big Four" monopoly, can
be broken up, or If refrigerat-
ing establishments can be oper-
ated so IS to successfully com
pete with them, at different points in the
country, so that the cattle raiser will
have choice of markets, the live stock
exchange, operated through branches in
different parts Of the cattle growing terri
tory, will become not only benef. to
the cattlemen, but 8 necessity.
"The time is st hand when cattle
sIaughtering will be done on a scale Of
less magnitude than heretofore, sut more
economically. The plsnts for this pur-
pose will be dotted throughout the range
country, and instead of the cattle being
slaughtered st the plsce OF consumption,
they will be slaughtered st the place of ma
turing, and the meat will be shipped TO
the place Of consumption, thus efectiug
an economy both by the cheaper trans
portAticn rstes and the salvage of flesh
usually lost in the transportation OF live
animsls, not to mention the better con-
dition in which the meat can be placed
upon the market. At 8 point contiguous
to both the range country and to
the COST will be located plsnts
for the refrigeration Of meat
for expsrt, while meats for consumption
at home will be made st interior points.
Plants established at Fort Worth, FL
Paso, Denver, Kansas City and Omaha
need never come into competition with
each other, but can fad markets peculiar
ly their own II not carried on upon q
scale too stupendous to be economical.
"But the man who has cattle to sell,
say in the panhandle of Texas, will not
be able TO ship his cattle first to one Of
those places and then on to another to
find the best market. ALI may be equally
good or equally bad, and
the cattlemen will feel the
embarrassment Of 8 choice OF markets.
II he starts his cattle to Kansas City
while the supply Of his class OF beef Is
low on that market, he may on his arrival
there find thst the yards are overstocked
and prices are down, while at Denver
maybe his animals would bring an enor-
nous value, II he only had them there,
but IS it Is he will have to sell
st a price that barely pays freight
charges.
"Then any system, such So this live
stock exchange, that steps In and says to
that man before he ships his cattle, 81
will buy your cattle st fair price and
take chances on the Shipment" con-
slider a good one, and all the beef pro-
ducers would look at II In the same way
II 1t were not so new scheme as to sort
o. paralyse them. 1t would OF course
put an end to those fabulous values
being received for stock that we used
to read about, for your cool snd collected
dealer in cattle futures would not be very
likely to offer price not warranted by
the probable supply and demand as indi-
Gated by figures collected BY his exchange,
but the cattle man could always expect,
and could demand price for his proper
~ pretty near its sctual value.
zone OF the chief reasons why no re.