Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-02
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Cattle Being Slaughtered Now viii
Not Compete with Texas Stock
in the Spring.
The Dates OF the Meetings of the Texas
and the Northwestern Live Stock
AssocIations-Local Events,

i Mr.. Smith, horse raiser OF Brown
wood, Tex, yesterday brought to Young,
Andrews & Kuhn's yards 8 carload of
Texas horses. They are in very fair con-
.dition for the season Of year.
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1t is generally understood that the meet
ing Of the Texas Live Stock Association
will be postponed until after the meeting
of the Northwestern Live Stock ASS cia-
ton, which will be held in Gainesville on
March 8. It is thought the meeting Of the
state association should be held after the
meeting of the local ones.
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Messrs. Turk & Hall OF Southwest
Missouri, shipped day before yesterday
two CATS of fine stock, consisting of thor
ough bred ShortheTn bulls snd heifers,
four Jacks and four daft stations, among
them one imported p ereheTon to Messrs.
J. S. Powell & CO. this city. This stock
will be placed uson the market immedi-
ately upon its arrival. 1t
Mr. Kinney of Paris, KY, arrived in
Fort Worth yesterday with twelve head
of the finest Kentucky jacks from J..
Monroe Leer's Clearwater stock farm in
Beaibon county. The animals are shipped
ID Price, Maupin & Co. Of Fort Worth and
were placed in Young, Andrews & Kuhn's
yard. They are undoubtedly q fine lot of
beasts and will plsy an important part in
the raising Of the future stock of mules
in Texss.a
Mr.. T. 7. D. Andrews, agent Of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, was seen last
evening at the Ellis. Mr.. Andrews had
just returned from st. Louis, and being
asked for news of interest TO stockmen,
said the reports ne had received from the
northwest were to the effect that stock
had not suffered there to any great extent
so far. In Montana, particularly, they
had been leniently dealt with, and he did
not think the losses there were OF SUI
fcient importance to deter the rangemen
from stocking with Texas cattle.
Mr.. Andrews WAS asked where
all the cattle were coming
from that were being unloaded on the
Chicago market, the number of such be-
ing unusually great for the time OF yesr.
"They come from the small stock farms
of Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas and
other nothern stStes."
nave LnSSG S4l nuy
to the Texss stockmen?"
81 should say so. II these cattle are
slaughtered now, they will be so many
less to compete with when the Texan be-
gins toehip his stock to the market"
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80 Frisco, N. M, correspondent of q
western newspaper says: "Jess Pitts
has made 8 contract with Messrs. Young
blood, Hubbard and Graham, of Ameri.
c6n Valley, to catch wild cattle in the
mountains, Of which there is supers
bundance. Jess is an excellent hand to
WELD the lasso. There are old moose herds
in the mountains adjacent to the Amer
lean Valley, who have evaded all previous
attempts at capture, yet We incline to the
opinion, that many of them will succumb
to Pits lssso, or vacate the fats. The
wild cattle in these mountains are per-
feet nuisance to the csttlemen of that re-
gion, and II all men who have
cattle there would join to-
gether and make sn indiscriminate
killing of them it would be good thing
for all concerned. Owing to the lay OF
the country aud its denseness it is next
to impossible to get them out without
killing them. II one catches one and
brands it the chances are he will never
see it again. There are cattle in these
mountains ten or twelve years old with
out mark or brand on them and, instead
OF diminishing, they are increasing every
year. Gentle cattle get with them and
in the course of few months
are as wild as the original ones. The
only remedy for this evil is to remove the
cause; in other words, aunihilate the en-
tire herd of wild cattle. But even to do
this it will require experts, and not law
yers, doctors and railroad men. When
one starts after those wild cattle he wants
to have his'life insured. We have made
it practice for the last five years, every
spring or fall, and sometimes in both, of
leaving shirt sleeve, vest back, q coat
collar, and sometimes piece of hesh, to
dry snd wither on the stiff cedar limbs,
in those God forsaken mountains, while
wildly pursuing the fleeing bovine"