Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-22
ROUND-UPS.
cattle FAt and Grass Good In South.
ern Texts and Cat;lemsn are
Rather Independent
The Loss of Cattle In Texas Will BIS onL
sufi Client to Esse On Over Stocked
RaDgss-Notes.

sufi Client to Eass On Over Stocked
RaDgss-Notes.
Joe Funk, we'll known San Angelo
stocknAn, was at the Msnsion yester-
day.
The demand for western two-yesr-old
steers is greater than the supply. Don't
give your steers away San Angelo
Standard.
Abram Nave, widely known cattle
man of st. Joe, Mo-, who makes his
headquarters al Fort Worth, was in the
city yesterday.
The applications for berths on the ex-
cursion to the range convention st Den
Yer on the 28sh, continue to come in such
numbers that those DESTROYS of going had
better apply soon or they will be left.
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Sheep have been fat ever since they
we're shorn last year. There has been no
dust snd the frequent rains have washed
GU. most Of the grease, conse Quently the
west Texas spring clip Of '88 will be the
oest on record. If it don't bring d good
nrice the sheepmen are being robbed
San Angelo Standard.
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The Cotulla Times says: Ed Fl. Taylor
has sold his interest in the oTo brand to
his father, DR.. NJ. A. Taylor. Ell retains
the Hester and Pierce stocks, which will
continue on the Dimmit county ranch, and
he started from Maria about the 16:h
INST. with herd of 1900 steer cattle for
the Indian Territory, where they will re,
msin until July or August, when they will
be shipped to markets east.
seFTere is no section of the state where
5the cNttlemen feel more Independent just
now than do those in Southern Texas.
They have no Iesr for the future, because
they hsve their prosperity grabbed.
With cattle in good shape, grass in abur-
dance, ranches not overstocked, and,
above all, with prices being offered for
their cattle such as allows them fair
margin of profit and remuneration, there
is no reason why they ehould not deport
themselves as with a consciousness Of
independence. A buyer who recently re-
turned from trip through those parts
says cattle owners are not disposed to fly
at the offers being now made for their
cattle, which northern cHttlemen would
be glad to take, but think by holding
awhile they will be able to do even better.
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a catteman who has made it his bust
ness to ascertain, says the loss of cattle
in West Texas through the past winter
will be above 10 per cent. Some owners
have suffered such defamation in their
herds as will effect them; but in the
larger number Of cases the loss has only
been so great as to carry OF the overplus
on ranches which were overstocked, and
there were q CREST many IN thst fix.
o wing to lack Of sufficient transportation
fseaities last fall, and to the low prices
nat were of sring for cattle, many ranch
men had failed to ship and had more cat
lie than their lands would support. Snd
the loss of the past winter has been
mostly in such herds. A little nice
weather that would last ten days or q
fortnight would put the cattle cut OF
danger of the heel fly, and bring them
through in good shape.
western csttlemsn said yesterday
that he could not see any reason why 8
refrigerator on q small scale could not
at Fort Worth and run st a
llF0ft to its managers. 1t would not
be necessary to start out on q
scale to carry on q competition
with northern concerns of the same sort,
nut the first ventures could be made in
supplying Texas cities with meat, and
gradually the,Abusiuess could be ex
tended. Many people thought
tlas guch q business could not
De carried on except by some one who
hadSgrown up in the business. While this
was true to q great extent, il modest
beginning were made those who had
charge Of the business would be able to
expand their knowledge as the expan-
sion of the trade required. The
at FL Paso was an example,
In small way, of what might be done.
That concern had been kept busy from
the day it WAS started, and was yet ex-
tending its trade.