Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-25
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
By the Law Of Supply and Demand
Texas Cattle Must Bring
Coed Price.
In No Part OF Texas Has There as Yet
Been any Loss OF Stock of any
Importance,


Importance.
The Clipper says the round-ups of next
spring are going to be long and expen-
sive.
a Houston; Tex, party yesterday pur-
chased from Powell Bros. G fine large
jack and half dozen graded and thor
oughbred stock.
It does not pay to bring grade stock to
Texas from northern parts, said dealer
last evening who had tried the expert
ment. Texas is as good q market for
thoroughbred stock as there is in the
country, but the stock raisers of these
parts have not sufficient faith in grade
breeders to make it profitable to bring
them great distance for this mRrket
X.
~ notice everyone is ticking -8fF going.
into the steer business these days." safd
stockman to q reporter yesterday.
"Now, consider that paying business,
and the intention to go into it is SerY
communicable; but I question whether
such departure be advisable for the
Texas stockmen. Northern stockmen
are doing the same thing, and they de-
pend entirely upon Texas to furnish the
steers. There is going to be a big de-
mand for them. 1 should think those
who had the breeding stock would have
corner on the market"
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Everything at this time points TO rich
harvest for the stockman in the future
especially for the Texas stockman. There
has not!been an occurrence during the past
year In the live stock industry that has
not appeared to have been brought about
with the intention 70 benefit the Texas
stockraiser. The Colorado Clipper says
West Texas Of course lost some cattle by
the cold weather, but while Texas herds
lost q percentage the herds of the north
mated. BY the law Of demand and supply
Texas cattle must bring good price this
year.
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Mr.. -, prosecuting attorney of the
Forty-second Judicial district, was in the
city on his way from Dallas to his home
in Abilene, and paid THE GAZETTE
friendly call. From Mr.. it was
learned that the reports Of cattle dying in
large numbers in the west are untrue.
"You can say that there have been COM
parativeIY few cattle died from cold in
our section, and 1 have been all over the
district. The grass has been abundant
and cattle went into the winter fat. The
winter has been such that the grasses |
have not had an opportunity to rot, and
are therefore good yet. OF course occa- |
slonally an old range cow that went into
the winter thin and weak may
have succumbed, but as rule |
there has been no losses Of cattle
TO speak Of. We have the best season in |
the ground that has ever been known and
If ne do not get another drop OF rain our
wheat crop is an assured success. The |
amount OF water that is in the ground |
will also insure 3 luXuriant pasturage for
stock on the range, aud, altogether, our
prospects are brighter than ever before.
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A great many stockmen have not been
fully convinced that there has not been
much loss of cattle in Texas this year,
and 1t is difficult matter to convince |
them-an impossibility in some cases
for when you prove the loss up to GER
tain time has been nil such 8 man will |
say: swell, the cattle have been en-
feebled, and the loss Is yet to Gomez"
and II he is then convinced that that
statement does not nolQ ne Will n1Ve
some other morose idea in his head. AS
q matter of fact, in no part Of Texas has |
there as yet been any loss OF stock to
smount to anything, nor has there
been any weakening Of stock,
unusual at this time of the year. The |
only exception that can be made to this
statement, speaking after reports have
been received from all parts of the state,
and giving time for reliable information
to be received, is in the case OF the plains
cattle, many of which have drifted so far
and to such places that they will never be
recovered. It has been maintained that,
though in the central parts Of the state
there had been few deaths of stock, when
facts were in from the Panhandle, it would |
be found there was big loss up there.
Such fears may now be cast
aside. The Texas Panhandle says
though there may be losses |
along the fences where cattle drifted up
and failed to break through, where the
movements of the animals had not baen
impeded, or they found breaks, they will
certainly be found all right. The storm
was without precipitation OF any kind,
and that is not the kind that kills.