Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-26

Dick ForsYthe of the Forsythe Lsnd
and Cattle Company WAS in the city yes
terdsy.
The Texas and Pacific yards were
pretty well filed Yesterday with cattle,
sheep and hogs going to northern mar
kets. The cattle were from the neighbor-
hood OF Abilene, are cotton seed and corn
fed, and are fine lot. West Texas can
mature beef, and mature 1t well.
M. G. Campbell and A. Il. Jewett Of
Wichita, Kan, were in Fort Worth yes
terday. They are in search of two, three
and four-yeer-old steers for pssturage on
the Cherokee Strip, II they do not ar
range for what they want in
Fort Worth they will go to
Greer county for them. They
are rather of the opinion
that the kinds of stock they want are not
very scarce, ard mention the fact, in sup
port of their belief, that large numbers OF
steers are on the market at Caldwell, and
buyers are not taking them up with q
rspidity that would indicats 3 shortage of
supply.
a prevalent disposition on the part OF
the cattle owners to decrease their herds
is being observed and commented upon
Just now, and the comments are generally
to the effect that q scarcity of beef will
result from q continuance of the decima-
ton Of the herds If it is carried on for
long at the Iate and by the methods now
in, ,szy6ede. There have been
large numbers OF she cattle put on the
market both this spring and last fall,
which will have an effect on the herds in
short time. Then spsying is being car
ried on in every part of the state and the
practice is yet thought to be but In its
incipiency. Wherever group OF cattle
men is gathered some mention OF these
matters is almost always made.
W. D. Reynolds of the cattle firm OF
Reynolds Bros. Of Albsny came to Fort
Worth last evening over the Texas and
Pacific, and takes the Fort Worth and
Denver train for Denver City this morn
ing. Mr.. Reynolds is going to Colorado
to look after some cattle he
has on the Colorado state
line, on the Cimmaron, detained
under the quarantine regulations of Colo
RADIO. There are three herds detained,
head each, snd one of W. R. Moore's,
numbering 100 head. The quarantine
regulations of Colorado stipulate that
cattle entering the state from Texas shall
have been at least ninety days above
the quarantine line recognized by the
Bureau of Animal Industry, which line
passes through the pastures Of Reynolds
Bros. IN Throckmorton and Haskell
counties, from which their cattle are
taken. For the past three years, Mr..
Reynolds says, his company has been in
the habit of driving cattle over the same
trail and from the same range as those
now held on the line, and so fsr as he is
able to decide from information in his
possession, the excuse for the present
trouble is mere bubble, raised on
point never before brought forward by
the Colorado sanitary authorities. NJ
Reynolds says there are several herds
behind hie, some of which are from Sec
tons further south than are those now
detsined on the line, and for the most
part they will have to be returned to
their original ranges, for delay Of ninety
days to comply with the regulations and
drive Of three or four months afterward
would put them into Montana too late in
the year to be of any value.