The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
LONG HORNS.
Round-ups of General Interest to
Texas Stockmen.
Pri. e, of Cattle and Sheep al Diff
ferent Points, and Ship
ment OF the Same.

Here in Austin the cattle market has
been quiet, with fat butcher COWS selling
at from $40 to $l2, yearlings 81 to So,
and prime beeves at private rates. Fat
hogs are scarce at from 3 to 6 cents gross
swEETwATER RECORD.
Nolan county has 10000 head Of sheep
and $4,000 head OF cattle.
D. s. Arnold bought 76O head of sheep
this week from Fred Goddard.
The excitement about the damned
creek and the dam bridges across the
aforesaid damned creek has not yet sub
sided. Dam your feelings, boys, and dc
not let the dam bridges make you mad.
A wool buyer was in town this week
buying wool, and he tried to pull the
@'wool" over some OF our woolgrowers
eyes by telling them that if Harrison was
elected he would give them II cents g
pound for their wool.
SAN ANGELO ENTERPRISE.
Range cattle are now selling better
than they have sold for fully two years.
The Concho Cattle company is fencing
in 100000 acre pasture.
NJ B. Pulliam has just bought 400 ones
anu tgOs, PecO5 county cattle, from Riley
Cross, of Brown county, for 81 and S11.
This season the Shropshire breed of
sheep is being introduced into the Concho
conptry TO great extent, and all the
flock masters are going over them.
One of the greatest attractions to wool
growers at the Dallas and San Antonio
fairs will be the Universal sheep shearing
machine in full operation, invented and
patented by George Richardson, of Concho
county.
Fayette Tankersly and Nub Pullism
started herd of $40 head of beeves on
the 2lst from the Arden pasture, few
miles from San Angelo, for shipment
from Colorado City to Dallas county,
there to be fed during the winter. They
say that the reason they did not ship from
this place was because the stock pens are
too small to handle their cattle properly.
The Santa Fe officials should make a note
Of this.
COLORADO CLIPPER.
Two carloads of burros were shipped
from Amorilla TO Little Rock, Ark, last
week.
A. B. Robertson sold eighty-threa 1913 T.
pound cows in Chicago last week at $1.90.
There is still great scarcity of stock
cars here, and shipments are being greatly
delayed.
j. B. Dale shipped fourteen cars of
cattle to Chicago Wednesday, and another
train load Thursday.
Forty-one thousand six hundred and
thirty.six head of cattle have been driven
into Montana from the south the past
season.
Many of our cattlemen confidently
expect big revival ia the beef mark ct
NEXT spring. Winfield Scott has over
10000 steers which he is holding over.
b, Gatewood sold forty stays in Chicago,
averaging Liza pounds, at $215, and
forty-two steers, averaging 1,042 pounds,
at 81 60. On another day he sold twenty
1,090-pound at So.
The following west Texas cattle were
sold recently in Chicago: Clay Mann, 81,
9S1 pounds, So. A. B. Robertson, As,
967 pounds, $3.50; SO cows, 1888 pounds,
81 So; McWilliams a. King, 56 COWS, sos
pounds, $780,
San Angelo can never hope to rival
Colorado as cattle shipping point until
they have stockyards that can hold more
than 100 head of cattle. One hundred car
loads can be handled each day with ease
at our yards.
John Blocker, the big cattleman of
Travis county, is gathering herd of 3d..
900 head of cattle to drive to the Pauhan-
die for the winter He will hold them all
until next spring, when he expects big
rise in the market.
jim and Billy Gilliland recently bought
1900 steers from Hearne & Son, of Belle
Plain, paying s. for yearlings, $l2 for
twos and $lS for three and tours. They
intend to carry them all through the win
ter, part of them having been driven to
their blackberry pasture, and part held in
Callahan county.
FORT WORTH STOCK JOURNAL,
Only one-half the number of sheep in
Penusy lvania in 1888 are there now. Penn.
sylvania and Ohio each have lost million
sheep since 1888, but New York has only
lost 100000.
Quotations from the Boston CONNER
cial Buletin-Texss fine, II months, $50
20c; do do, 6 to months, 15M1Sc; Texas
medium. II months, 2O@23,; do do, to
months, l6@2Oc.
Oregon sheep weighing III pounds, 1913
pounds and 1879 pounds average, sold at
Chicago for $40, 81 and $3.50 per hun
dred. Such sheep must come from good
ranges and make some money.
Robert Driscoll sent twelve carloads of
mixed beef cattle to Chicago this week
from his Nueces county ranch, and is
awaiting the returns of the Chicago stock
appraisers.
The Coleman-Fulton Pasture company,
of San Patriotic county, sent fifteen stable
cars of beef to market few days ago.
They went to Gregory, Cooley g. Co.,
Chicago.
sale of several thousand fat lower
country cattle are reported at San An
tonic at $3.50 for cows, $40 for bulls, 81
for stays and $12 for steers years old
and upwards. Names are withheld by re-
quest.
AIonzo MiIIett, of La Sale county, was