Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-18

Mr.. Eugene Roche, VINO o~ns one Of
the finest STOCK farms N tGa vicinity Of
Fort Worth, was in The Gig ?: gterdsy.
He speaks rather gl0omily IF the effects
of the late storm.
The Fort Davis News, published before
the ncrther struck Texas, says: "Cattle
and sheep are doi9g well from reports OF
our stOckmen; the grass is good yet, and
the moisture nOw in the ground will
probably be promise for early grass"
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San Angelo Sta3QarG: S. J. Blocker
for S. J. Murphy, sold TO the Murphy
Cattle Company Of Wyoming, Wednes-
cay, 200 head of two, three and four
yeaT-uld steer cattle It private terms.
They viii DE driven 20 Wyoming about
April l.
Mr.. Oxford, 81 Erath coua'y stCckmsn,
whose horses and cattle range on tn fer
tile a0nks Of the Paluxy, is IN Fort Worth
With twenty-five head Of what are CON
si1ereG about the best h0tses that have
bae3 taken through the city IN soma tins.
He IS tsking thsm 20 Alabama, accom-
panied by II. 2. Miller Of Fort Worth.
Lincoln IN. M Independent: Back
Powell and Billy Mathews were in loHD
a couple OF Days this week. They report
heavy 61cW storms On the P,nascO, and
that sheep have been p5rishing by the
hundreds. In one bunch OF forty hesd
OF cattle only three survived the storm
week before last. Many other csrcasaes
Of cattle were seen in various places on
the ranges, having persisted IN the storm.
SIN Angelo Standard: 'E. E. Cr0ssop,
foreman Of Patterson & Williams sheep
ranch, wSs in town last week, and in con-
Versstion with Standard pump, said
that during ali TIE eight Or ten winters he
hss spent in West TtXss he never knew
the cr&p Of buffalo clover to be as large
SIS /, Is st prSceLt On the plains. Buffalo
clover is very nutritious, grows long
enough for cattle to get hold of, and
coming o. ibis tine CT year, when almost
everything else II the vegetable world is
dead, i Is Godsend to the cowm6n."
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Tie Rocky Mountain NaWE, Denver,
Col SAYS: The second uesday in Feb
Tuary is he day fixed for the third annual
meetiag Of the Range Association. No
cali has yet been issued, because of gen
ersl expression from cattlemen in the
southwest for postponement until tie
F0It Worth road connects with Trinidsd.
l. is believed that if this concession is
made it will add largely 10 the attendance
aud be an accommodation to good many
intert sted parties. There is 6 strong
probability that the meeting will be held
aboEt che middle of March and that this
action VIII be legaliZe6 by a meeting held
fer the purpose on the regular date.
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Colonel W. C. Young Of the Llano Cat
tie Company, one OF the best posted cat
tIemen Of Texas, ssid yesterday: "Whst-
ever De the result of the lste blizzard in
the northern stStes and the nOrther in
Texas, one thing may be relied upon
very l59 cattle for northern ranges will be
boaght II Texas this year. There is no
doub: there has been sufficient
less iG the north 20 discourage most
cat;lemen N restocking their ranges"
as il not little too esrlV TO torn any
judgment upon that pOint?"
"Wen, yen never saw msn burns with
the same coal twice, If he was in his
right sebBes."
Thai seltIes it.
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Captain T.. w. McGee. WeSEnerfOTQ
stockmsn, well posted on the horse and
mule trsde of Texse, was in Fort Worth
lsst Night. Asked how the stock bust
ness stood. h sSid the storm would have
the eff CT q keeping everything quiet Tor
some time, but that when commerce
Opaned up, in month or two, he
thought there would be g good
demand in states east of Texas for mules
in par ,icular. He vas in Louisiana late
in the f2ll, end from Indications at that
time AID correspondence recently he was
leo TO bsheve there would be good mar
ket here. Mules will be most in de-
maGd. The country has been 0verrun
with Inferior stock till the people are dis
gusJad with suCn, and want 6 good Class
Of f&rm auimsls.
Captain MCGEE has just come from
Parker county. He had not heard how
cattle had come through the norther, but
lass week there we're reports Of losses in
Parker county, AID ne thought the freeze
of Sunday would prove very disastrous.
EUERHAN