Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-03
ROUND-UPS.
The Financial Benz ii; to Texas Cattle.
men From Shipping rheir Cattle In
improved Sleek Cars.
Will Fatten on Texas Pas!ures-A Prosper
Gus season for Dealers In Mutton.
Oattle I'm Route.

Catue I'm Route.
Seven carloads of horses came in from
the south last evening.
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Sam Cobb, one OF the best known cat
tlemen OF the B. I. T., is in Fort Worth.
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Jot Gunter, the well known fine stock
breeder OF Sherman, csme over from Dial.
lss yesterday.
Two train loads Of the Hoover & Co.
cattle that have been made up st Fort
Worth Went north to the Cherokee
country last night.
W. R. McFsrlane, one OF the most sue
tessful hne stock breeders Of Missouri,
who WAS in Fort Worth last winter with
some of his stock, is in the city again.
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Some OF the western stockmen who had
made up herds OF cattle to ship to the
Indian Territory to fatten have turned
back part or sll of them, and will allow
them to stay on the Texas pastures to get
ready for market.
This has been o prosperous year for
all classes Of dealers In mutton, and the
shippers have scooped in by no means the
smallest part of the profits of the bust
ness. Recently the msrgin per head on
sheep taken from Southern and Western
Texas has been from 81 to 81 15. Whether
the existing prices will hold for long
time will depend upon the number Of
good muttons in the country, and 1t Is
not thought the ewes and poor animals
will be brought forward for some time to
come.
Cal Sugg, one of the genial cattle
barons Of the Indian Territory, is in the
city, having just returned from the City
of Mexico, where he went with the ex-
cursion of KNIGHTS Templar who met in
Ell Paso recently. Mr.. Sugg says the ex-
had most enjoyable trip to
the ancient capital OF the land OF the
Az!ecs, having met President Disz and
hobnobbed with the national Legislators,
who wined and dinsd them IS though
they were commission sent down to
test the effect of the insidlous mescale
that has proved so disastrous to Ameri-
can ministers IN that country.
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The recent experiments OF shipping In
improved stock cars from Texas has not
only resulted in benefit to those who
were fortunate enough to obtain them,
but has opened the eyes of the stockmen
to the advantage that would accrue il
they were put in general use on the roads
running out of Texas. The Stock
Journal in sn article on the financial
benefit OF these cars, summing up the
profits to the shipper, says: "We take
for 8 basis the two shipments OF A. Alder
& Co., from Corpus Christi to Chicago.
The shippers claim that they saved at
least fifty pounds per head in shrinkage
and that the cattle snld for at
least 20 cents 8 hundred more by
arriving at destination il fresh and
sound condition. This is q saving in
shrlDkage on train load OF $50 head CT
fully 5000 pounds, worth 81 cents per
psund, or $3.50. The 20 cents more per
100 for which they sold will make 81 80
per head on 900-pound steer, or an ag-
gregate of S64S on tle train load. This,
added to the saving in shrinksge OF $3.50
will make total saving OF Sl278 on q train
load of beeves by the use Of improved
stock cars. Texas Will market 100000
head CT beef csttle this year in the north
ern markets. The less on these cattle
over and above Whist it would be
in improved cars will be 100000
pounds, IT presenting 16 66s head OF 800
pound steers worth $685. 600 st SO 30 per
100 pounds. Then there is loss of
20 cents per 100 pounds by reason CT
their bruised condition on arrival at des.
tiustion, which is $4,000 more, or a
grand total loss of S1,O65,000. This is
what the penury OF the Texas Traffic AS
ISOLATION is costing the cattle interest of
Texas. In this is n 1t counted the recent
advance In rates on sheep nor the 20 per
cent. now charged on improved CATS"