The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
LONG HORNS.
What the Jolly Stockmen are
Doing.
Items of Interest Gathered at
Home and Rounded Up on
the Frairles.

The cattle market has been very quiet
here during the past week, with prices
ruling at 3Q315c for good butcher stock.
Ed Haigler and Billie Sheehan have
leased the refrigerator rooms at the Capt.
tol Ice factory, and the week before the
drill will slaughter about 100 head of
choice beeves to enable them to supply
the demand. The beeves are now in
Haigler's pasture, a few miles south of
the city.
During the month of March there WAS
shipped from Cotulla 1859 head of cattle,
1850 head of mutton, and SO calves, re-
quiring seventy-three cars to haul Them
Uotu la Ledger.
The telegraph said that at Denver a
string of Panhandle yearlings were sold
at $40 around. They were sold by Charles
Goodnight, of the Panhandle, to Smith
d. Elliott, of Montana, and numbered 1900
head.
Messrs. Wooten & Coon, of Tarrant
county, sold to Thomas Willis, of Vinita,
1900 3 and 4-year-old steers, to be de-
livered at Mustang. These steers cost
about $3.50 around at the shipping
pens.
I. s. Bugbee, of Kansas City, whose
ranch is in the Panhandle, has sold to Mr.
Phillips, of Montana, 1920 head of 2-year-
old steers, at $146215 per head, the steers
to be delivered in the Fort Worth and
Denver shipping pens at Giles, in Donley
county. This is the first trade in ranch
cattle where the half cent has ever cut
figure, and shows how close cattle are
selling.
At Denver some 5000 or 1000 steers
were sold to John Mckenzie, manager of
the Creswell ranch, at $3.50 for yea,lings
and $14 for 2-year-o'ds. The sale was
made by Sam Doss and delivering at Fort
Sumner, New Mexico, where the cattle
are.
John f. Camp, of San Antonio, so d
about 1000 head of steers, years and
upwards, to Turner g. Fuller, Musoogeey
l. r., for $3.50 per head. They will lie
gathered off Mr.. Camps Wilson county
aud neighboring raLohes The intention
at first was to take them from the Pecos
county raEch, but the Southern Pacifo's
freight WAS so high that stock would not
pay to ship over it.
Mr.. James Jer me, of the Saginaw Cat
tie company, who purchased 5000 Mata--
dor steers delivered on the Saginaw ranch
at SIC, also purchased of the King County
Land aud Cattle company, 1000 2,
3 and 4-year-Old steers; this q
year at $14, and 3-year olds at
$3.50. These cattle are from the stock
formerly known as the Mabry, Crawford
d. Gla'gow stock, ranging in King county.
The quarantine laws of the northwestern
states and territori have proven bless
ing in disguise, just as prominent ranch
men of the southwest predicted
several years ago. We are now
maturing our own beef stock, instead
OF allowing others to do it for us, at
profit to themselves. The enforcement
of the long and short haul clause of the
interstate commerce law would act IN the
same way by forcing us to establish re-
frigerators and cannerits and send our
meat product out by our gulf ports,
thereby cutting loose from Chicago, or
bringing them to US instead of going to-
them. Texas Livestock Journal.
The fair of the Williamson County
Stock association will be held at Taylor
on May 2, 3 and 4.
Conspicuous among all the visitors is
the form of Dan Wagner, than whom
none of the boys have longer experience
in the cattle business lin Texas. He is
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United States, having now on the range
not less than 100000 head. Dan is purely
a product of Texas, having lived and
prospered since boyhood in that state.
His residence at Decatur is the NEST gor-
geous IN the whole state, the building
alone having cost $4,000 1t is located
on an elevation overlooking the city of
Decatur, and commands view of tho
entire country in that vicinity. Mr.
Wagner is interested in the banking
business, also.-Denver Times.
The Texas Livestock Journal, published
at Fort Worth, one of the best stock jour
na's published, says: "Stockmen and
others are still talking of big advances in
the near future and now everybody Is
coming around to that way of thinkin g
True, it may not turn out so, but some are
willing to stake something on the out
come"