The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-20
HOOPS AND HORNS.
Sales and Movements OF Stock
Over the Great Range.
Items of Interest to Cattle and
Sheep Men Gathered From
Stock Exchanges.
FORT WORTH STOCK JOURNAL.

FORT WORTH STOCK JOURNAL.
Copt. j. O. Richardson quotes all sorts
and conditions of feeders at 2@21S cent?.
The Fort Worth union stock yards is
permitting vast amount of business to
go to waste.
The Cresswell Cattle company, of the
Panhandle, sold lack Mullhall sixty-seyen
steers at $35 around.
Homer Smoot, of Denton county,
passed through town with 100 Parker
county steers for feeding purposes.
Jno. s. Powell g. 90. sold one car of
mares to Mr.. A. B. Quinn, Bridgeport,
Tex, at $50 around. Also, one jack
at 1926.
Geo. Saunders, of San Antonio, has sold
500 one-y ear. old steers to II. j. Hotohkiss,
manager of the Melissa Ranch company,
Kerr county, for 1925 per head, deliv-
cred at Melissa ranch. They were put up
in Hays county by jennings g. Ellison.
A petition is going the rounds for sig
nature requesting the railroads to hsu
cattle in stable cars at the same rate as
cattle are hauled in common cars. Just
the same as is done elsewhere. When
the petition is signed up it will bear the
names'of the principal cattle shippers in
Texas.
Richardson and Hackett sold to r. Fl.
Quarles, Hillsboro, for Young, Andrews q
Kuhen, 125 head Of feeding steers at 500
around. They also sold to G. w. Weaver,
of Llano, 125 4-year-old steers, the prop
erty of j. Y. Hogsett, at $3.50 around.
Messrs. Richardson d. Hackett sold two
cars of hogs to local butchers at SIC.
SAN ANGELO STANDARD.
and one car bulls from Ballinger last
week.
Leon HAHN made the first shipment of
wool last Tuesday, to Boston, over the
Santa Fe.
W.. l.. Aldwell sold 1915 muttons,
averaging SO pounds, in Chicago last
week, at 1915 per hundred pounds.
Pulliam, Tankersley q Wilson recently
sold $50 steers in Chicago which netted
$12.50 per head.
Tom Sanderson returned from Chicago
last Monday. He sold 500 muttons,
averaging 80 pounds, at $500 per hun
dred.
W. H. Godair bought from Felix Mann
200 threes and tours at SIS and from
Max Mayer 300 twos, threes and tours at
81 for twos and $16 for threes and fours.
ia. Caldwell recently sold the R. o.
Smith six months last spring clip of wool,
10000 pounds, to parties in the east at
good figures
Felix Mann has just delivered 1000
ones and threes to M. u. Smissen at 1925
and $1175 and he has sold him half
interest In herd of 1000 yearlings at
$3.50.
George Smith, formerly Lipan cow
man, but now of Pearsall, met with dire
calamity short time ago. He accepted
check on Chicago in payment for all
his cattle. The check turned out to be
worthless, and George has about $1,000
worth of experience that he does not
know what to do with.
MoBEETIR PANHANDLE.
A small herd of cattle passed through
the eastern part OF town last Saturday.
They belong to a new settler on the
Washita, and were from Taylor county.
"Old Man Hamilton" so the warrant
reads, was lodged in jail here Monday on
the charge of larceny in the Territory.
The larceny is understood to have been of
cattle property, and he is suspected of, or
charged with, connection with the whole
sale brand-burning perpetrsted last win
ter. He is fine looking old man, his
hair and full beard white as the driven
snow, and, if he is guilty, he ought TO
have known better at his age than cut such
capers.
CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER.
The following shipments were made
from Corpus Christi this week via the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass railway:
J. Myers, IL cars stock cattle to Indisn
Territory; another party, cars horses to
New Orleans. On Thursday a stock train
of 81 cars left this place, consisting of
5 cars cattle, 112 head, shipped by Lott
d. Nelson to New Orleans; 10 cars horses,
228 head, by Joe Shelly, TO San Antonio; 3
cars horses584 head, by O. e. Hicks, to
same place; 2 cars horses, by L. O. Bur-
nett, to Louisiana, and one car OF colts,
by l.. SarenseD, TO same state.