Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-25

In the Northwest-stopping st the
Live stock Center
R. E. Montgomery, one of the best
known stockmen of this section, is IN
Fort Worth.
j. 1. D,rnell, 9 well Known stockmsn,
of Seymour, mansger OF the Kit Carter
Cattle Company, is in Fort Worth.
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Il. 81. Campbell, manager of the Ma
tabor Cattle Compsny's ranch, Is in the
city, prepared to step on the train for
Denver on Monday morning.
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T. T. D. Andrews, sgent Of the Bureau
Of Animal Industry, who has just re-
turned to this city after 8 trip through
New Mexico, g Lys cattle interests through
out the west wherever ne has been or
heard from, are in 8 thriving and pros
porous way, and that 30 far as cattle and
ranges are concerned, the stockmen have
little to worry about.
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Although the place and time of holding
the Texas State CAttlemen's Associations
convention has not been officially fixed, q
GAZETTE reporter has been informed on
the best of authority that it was practi-
cAlly agreed by the executive officers OF
the association. whose business 1t Is to
call the meeting, that 1t would be held at
Austin, in May, during the celebration
attending the dedication Of the state
capitol.
1t wss said yesterday that Fort Worth
presented more the app earsnce Of q cat
tlemen's headquarters than 1t had for
years. A great many stockmen were in
the city who had not been here before in
years, but who in former times we're
familiar obi ects on the streets. There is
no doubt the close association Of Fort
Worth with the great Panhandle Railway,
9 route particularly favored by stockmen,
will form another bond between the Texas
cattlemen and this city.
G. F Meek, general manager OF the
Fort Worth and Denver, authorizes the
announcement that the last train of the
excursion carrying Texas cattlemen to
the Denver convention, will leave Fort
Worth at 8 O'Clock on Monday morning
the 2s.h, thus giving more time
for delegates from the south and
east to reach Fort Worth on the trains
that arrive on that morning. There is
still room for all those who may desire to
go, owing to more accommodations hAV-
ing been made. There will not be less
than 500 people take advantage of the
excursion.
So far as known the basis upon which
the Farmers Alliance propose to carry
on the beef refrigersting business
In Texas is the same as that recommend
ed by the most intelligent and conserva-
tive stock men of the stste who have ex-
pressed themselves on the subject. No
great blowout will be made at the start,
but the enterprise will be first opened on
scale commensurate with the actual
needs ofthe business, and will be ex-
tended only so fast as Is warranted by
the trade. Under such 8 modus operandi
there will be no great capital required at
the start, and not much money would be
lost If the scheme proved failure.
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A GAZETTE reporter has been shown
set of resolutions, which will be laid before
the range convention at Denver, looking
to the establishment Of live stock ex-
would be spared to push the business to
focus. The plans proposed have re
oeived 4 the Indorsem emit of all
stockmen and others before whom
they have been laid, Hand II the
range convention expresses itself favor
able to the scheme, q convention will be
held at Fort Worth Immediately after the
Denver meeting sdjourns, at which def
Sc to- <hn rkal Itch
will be made. The plans, as now ar
ranged, provide for the location Of two
exchanges, one at Denver and the'other
st Fort Worth.
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Granville Stewart, at the first s.. Louis
meeting Of stockmen, made the statement
that Montana was as good q breeding
country as Texas. The Righteousness of
this idea has been clearly demonstrated
by the late severe winters which have
killed Of nearly all the breeding stock In
that section. It was always the belief of
many northern rancnmen that their great
est profit lay in breeding, and this idea
has been st the bottom Of the
Efforts to shut Texas cattle from
northern ranges. Disease, of course,
had to be used as a pretext, out the only
motive has been desire to monopolize
the free grass Of the north, and to shut of
Texas as & competitor. Ali OF the Mon
ANA coWmen who have been in Texas
his season looking after cattle have
admitted that the most remunerative |
branch of the stockrAising business in |
heir country is buying Texas two-year-
I'D steers to mature on their luxuriant |
grasses.
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