The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
LONG HORNS.
Interesting Items From Over the
Great Range.
Prices of Cattle at Home, and
Notes From All Along
the Line.

Butchers complain that hogs are very
scarce, and lot of real fine ones would
bring good prices.
Ed. Haigler has bought $50 head of
very fine corn fed beeves for Mr.. W. S.
Davis, paying cents for them.
Mr.. Wade Smith brought in car load
of beev,s Friday night from San Antonio
which Mr.. Caperton disposed of at round
figures.
Ed has also bought $50 head of fine
beeves from a ranch near Cotulla, La
Sale county, and yesterday sent man
down after them.
Billie Heiligman, the short stop carver
at the Union market, is preparing for the
great drill and will be equal to any and
every emergency.
OVER THE RANGE.
Fallen hides are not worth much money
American live cattle and dressed beef
are dull in British markets.
Exports from. Boston last week included
1888 cattle, with no dressed beef.
McCutchen & Boyce are gathering up a
drove of cattle for the trail in Victoria
county.
1t is reported that Dull Bros. have re-
Gently made sale of $4,000 acres from
their ranch in LaSalle county.
The name of the Cherokee Hereford
Cattle company has been changed to the
Kansas Hereford Cattle company.
About 10000 head of cattle will leave
the country from about Alpine, Maria and
Fort Davis, for the north and Territory.
1t is estimated that 100000 gallons
of cotton seed oil were used in this coun-
try last year in manufacturing "fine lard"
The $4,000 for the Sullivan ranch, re-
Gently turned loose in Bee county is said
to be doing lots of good where most
needed,
1t is reported that Ed. Taylor sold a
train load of grass beeves at Cotulla a
few days ago for $50 per head. That
beats feeding cattle up north on 90 cent
corn.
Millett Bros, of LaSalle county, are re-
ported as buying 600 head of steers, 4
years old and upwards, from the Tibbs
estate at Sabinal, Uvalde county, at SIG
per head.
A stock meeting held at Estacado,
Crosby county, on March IL arranged to
meet at Double Lakes on April 20, 1883,
and start from there with their work with
drift cattle.
A report from Victoria says that Levi
g. West sold 5000 head of two and three
year old steers to s. S.Cobb,Of Indian Ter
ritory, and that A. j. West sold same man
1000 COWS and bulls.
1t is said that the Texas Land and Cat
tie company will move 10000 head of cat
! tie from their lower ranch, 1.-THE Laurels, in
Nueces co1nty),t to their ranch in Hemp
hill county, known as the Horse Shoe
! ranch.
The Ell Paso refrigerator has suspended
while they remodel and enlarge by the ad
dition of machinery for increased eapac
lty, expecting to resume about October
with their own cars. They have in view
the California and Mexican trade.
Senator Palmer claims that contagious
cattle diseases, especially pleuro-pneu-
monia, have not only caused a direct loss
to the country of $5O,000,000, but theil
| interference with interstate commerce
| and the restrictions they have brought
upon our export trade in live cattle have
occasioned loss of many millions more
In view of the general reduction OF
stock all over the country by selling COW:
and calves ana spaying, and now thu
heavy die-ups by recent storms in thu
north, would it not be good idea fol
the cowmen of the southwest to study thu
situation carefully to see whether there
would not be good demand again fO1
wanna, stack at better fiOureS than COulC
be realized for them by maturing.