Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-18

SUCK CdIllt lO lIc AusLIu anu ~ VI dt1tiI IL
Land and Cattle Company for $3.50,
range delivery.
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Receipts for 1888 TO December l at KAN
sas City were 973 Al cattle, 1923 ,672
hogs, and 1928 ITO sheep, showing gain
of $50 ,9l9 cattle, 375 ,423 hogs loss, anu a
gain of 127 $50 sheep compared with
1887.
The receipts of cattle on the Chicago
market on November % were the largest
ever recorded for one day, numbering
20 ,06S head. The nearest approach to it
was 1G 1866 head received January y I,
1886.
A 5-year-old buffalo COW was lariated
near Agate, Col. last week and brought
to Denver, where she was slaughtered
for Christmas meat. The COW was roll
ing fat and cost the butcher SIS. This
kind of cattle pays better than Texas
steers.
All fear for the successful wintering of
cattle i'll Texas this year has departed
from the minds of the cattlemen now =.
There is not a section of the state i'll which
the weather has been such as to hurt
range stock, according to all reports, so
far this season.
The scarcity of ears and the large num-
Der of cattle being moved over the
Southern Kansas Road puts shippers to a
great deal of trouble. A bunch of cattle
from the Hamburg ranch was made to
wait six days at Canadian City recently,
there being no cars at hand with which to
move them
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There is fair tradiI g on this market
now in live stock. Dealers i'll thorough
bred cattle are having all the success they
could reasonably expect, the prices re-
ceived being considered good as compared
with those ruling elsewhere. The trade
i'll horses, as i'll other parts OF the state,
is light, but is better now than during
the eaySyipart Of the season. The influx
of eSsfa fat cattle for the Xmas market
has not begun.
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Kirby & Cree of Fort Stanton, who
drove bunch of steers to Amarillo for
shipment to Kansas feeding pens, and
which, it is said, was the best bunch of
graded steers that have gone ont of New
Mexico this season. sold the yearlings of
the bunch to Captain Kearney of Cedar
vale, Kans at Sll 80, the two-year-
ODDS to Gaddis s. Biggers of Higgins,
Tex. ut Sl4, and the three and four
year-olds to the same firm at SIS so.
There are good many fine feed steers
III Colorado, and they are being bought
by Nebraska, Kansas and Indian Terri
tory feeders. One company sold nine car
lnniS of fpntiprs IN Kansas rNoTtiaS 10 St
week for S25 per head, and another firm
sold $50 head to Nebraska parties for So
per head. Steers are bringing from So to
81 per head more this year than last,
which is an evidence of a steady but slow
return of prosperity to the business.
II Field and Farm.
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The San Antonio horse market has been
remarkably dull during the past week so
for rs large sales for shipment are con-
cerned, though the yard sales have been
fairly good. Dealers are somewhat puz-
Zled to account for the inactivity rs very
little has been done in the way of ship
ments since the season for the northern
trade closed. The yellow fever quaran-
tine threw damper over the eastern
trade early in the season, but it was con-
fidently expected that a good business
would be done when the quarantine was
raised. So far these expectations have
not been realized.
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Mr. Alexander Swan of Cheyenne, in n
conversational way, says the range is
rapidly decreasing. The settlers no
longer spread out over the country, but
creep along the streams. They utilize
the water for irrigation and shut out the
cattle. Ranges that would be good Il
hundred years II there was access TO the
water, are fast becoming worthless. The
high land lying back of the streams can
not be farmed, for it is too dry:
now can ii be grazed, far the settler has
cut off the water. Hence, every COW
that can be made fat is sold. Not only
this, but every large rangeman is spaying
the heifers, thousands and thousands OF
them. Mr.. Swan says that when spayed
young they sell about Us well as steers.
Whilst four years ago the ranchmen were
buying up every heifer they could find,
now they are selling all the stock.
A live stock commission dealer of Kan
sas City says that the whole country is
cattle, and to such extent al
ready that the butter market is affected
by reason of the great shortage of cows,
ana that the butterine and oleomargarine |
makers now stand chance to make q |
fortune, rs genuine butter is going to be |
too high for the masses to eat. The same |
authority declares that ''the corn crop is |
the heaviest the country probably ever |
raised and the number Of cOrn-fed cattle |
will be correspondmgly large. Corn is |
worth 20 cents i'll Kansas and 80 cents in |
Missouri and Iowa. The feeders o fthese |
states and in part of the entire !
feeding region are drawing largely on the |
Panhandle and Colorado for feeders. |
Last year they wanted nothing but ma |
Lives for feeders. This year they want |
nothing but range animals. Range feed |
ers are, in consequence of this lad worth |
81 more per 100 pounds than last year. |
A lot of extra feeders from Goodnight's |
ranch sold few days ago in Kansas City |
FOL. s. 80 to s. So The best price for |
su cattle in that market last year was |
81 n. From the way in which the feed
ARE putting their money into steers |
aiey evidently expect good prices in the
spring."
Shipped From Colorado.
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