Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-24
BBzF REFRIGERATION.

summer fattened. From November Until
May Texas cattle were generally unit for
the butcher pen. Those who are In q po-
sition to profit by experience have said
that beef refrigeration In Texas would
have to visit for an Gall the year round
supply" Further, 1t WAS stated that an
Improvement in Texas cattle in quality
aud weight was necessary in order to
furnish quantity Of ripe-fat mstured
beef weighing upwards of q thousand
pounds. TIE GAZETTE Is in g position
to say that both conditions are fulfilled,
and that the ell the year round supply Of
marketable beeves can be had in Texas,
and further than this THE GAzETTK
would prove that Fort Worth Is
the most available point for corcentrs-
ticn Of the cattle Of the class required.
The cattle association centerlng upon
the city of Houston last week snd meet
ing at that city sent forth to the world g
complaint that the railroads would not
give them proper rate for the transpor-
tation of their cattle. The natural sup
position of persons not initiated into
Texas cattle matters would be that the
stockmen centering upon Houston had
prime beeves to ship to the great beef
markets and they wanted to ge. them put
in dressed beef coolers at once. The de-
plorkble fact remains, however, that the
stockmen of the Houston district have no
beef and never had enough beef in the
Houston district worthy Of the name to
supply the local Houston market.
TIE GAZETTE does not hesitate to as
sert that the Southeast Texas Cattlemen's
Association wanted to get rates to ship
young cattle out Of the Houston district
where such cattle cannot be matured and
iattened, into the Fort Worth territory,
where they can be fsttened-and ripened
for market. The men wanted rates to
transport cattle 70 the Panhandle and to
North west Texas, known to be directly
tributary to Fort Worth by IA esns of the
Fort Worth and Denver Railroad They
wanted rates to points on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad in the Iadian Terri
tory, 500 miles from Houston, but
only $50 miles from Fort Worth. They
were also asking rates for ouch places
as Purcell in the Indian Territory, only
It's miles from Fort Worth and 4s5 miles
from Houston. Allowing this country to
be most excellent cattle maturing
country and permitting (by courtesy OF
the Houston Posi) that Fort Worth is
cattle market-then is sill the territory
the Houston cattle are shipped to nearer
to Fort Worth than to ST. Louis or Kan
sss City.
The position taken BY THE GAZETTE
can be verified by the stOckmen meeting
at Houston. Let those who would es-
tablish refrigerstipg establishment In
Southeast Texas interview the great
Shanghai" Pierce, whose life has been
spent driving and shipping steers that
would not fatten, out Of the Hous-
ton district. Let them interview Mr..
D. R. FAINT, who WAS also st the meeting,
whose steers are now isttening near
Camp Supply in the Indian Territory,
nearer to Fort Worth than to any other
important city in the cattle trade. Call
on J. A. McFadden aud A. G. Jones,
prominent stock men who attended the
meeting, and many others who are desir-
GUS OF taking their cattle out Of district
known to be the best country on earth to
multiply cattle but the poorest country
on earth to raise them to quality ii for
the dressed-beef trade.
The railroad system centering upon the
city of Fort Worth was not built in vain.
The Denver Road, with down-hill pull,
will give better rates to Fort Worth from
Denver than other roads will to Kansas
City, and the famed Colorado steer will
be tributary to Fort Worth equally with
other markets. The Chicago and Rock
Island coming down from Caldwell, Kan
equal TO the Santa Fe territory or that Ct
the Missouri Pacific, will make the fourth
line centering on Fort Worth, running
through the greatest grass, beef-fattening
territory in the world. Then sgain, the
Texas anc Pacific, with q soc, mile
sweep westward, through beef
country only second to the great
beef country just named, aided
by the Fort Worth Western now
building and the Fort Worth aud Rio
Grsnde now extending, absolutely cen
trolls the grazing territory Of the west.
Southwark and eastward into the corn
feeding cattle. country are the Santa Fe,
the Missouri Pacific, the Central rail-
roads, and east and north the Trsnscon.
tinentsl, the Cotton Belt, and again the
Texas and Pacific is feeder OF Fort
Worth. Is Fort Worth the center of the
beef trsflc7 He who denies it knows
not what he saya. Great as may be sup
plies Of beef put out from
Texas and the Indian Territory,
shipping fully 100000 to Chicago and
about the came to other markets,
the greet majority are directly tributary
20 Fort Worth.
Hot Only 10 the beef cattle N Texas and
tie Indian Territory tributary to Fort
Worth: but the proof is very clear. In