Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-02
ROUND-UPs.
UnmHtured Mutton is Worth Moro 10
the Texas sheepmxn Than 10 Rhs
Northern Feeder.
Bloodsc CATTLE Being Moved-rhs Success
of Pear Feeding In Southern Texas.
TAe New Orleans Market.

A train of twenty Palace stock cars
passed south over the Santa Fe Railroad
last night.
On the \ .w Orleans maIkat LAST week
the prlce tor choice grass ted Texas cat.
tie was So 0o@ss.75; fair 70 COMMON,
% 00@S2 Is.
Nat Powell reached Fort Worth yester-
day with bunch of biooded csttle, Hol-
stems, Jerseys, Devons and Herefords,
which he is taking from Collin county to
Beaumont.
E. d. Wilkes Of Wilkes & Co., Coleman
county. was in Fort Worth yesterday
with bunch of beeyes, which will be
sent on to Chicago in care OF one Of the
commission houses there.
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D.A. Constable OF Missouri, and W. T.
Cobb Of Hearne, were In Fort Worth yes
terdsy looking for some five or six hun.
dred head Of two-yeAr-olds, and were
tex IN out to lock st bunch few miles
west Of town.
FAINT & West are snloping from Linton,
station on the San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass Railway, 5000 head of best cattle
which they recently purchased frem the
O'Counor Bros. The cattle go to the
Indizn Territory.
The Texas Land and Cattle Company
proposed to move from $4,000 to $4,000
head Of cattle this year from their South
Ve
their ranch in the Panhandle. They have
made one shipment of forty carloads.
Pesr feeding n Southern Texas ap-
pears not to have been SO profitable dur
ing .he past winter as the winter previ-
GUS. Owing to the unusual quantities OF
rain the feeding value OF the pear has not
been so great, while the grass has been
so good that where stock have had &C.
cess to it the pear has beento sn extent
neglected.
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Burk Burnett, who has recently returned
from O trip to his ranch, says the range Is
in fiue condition and that csttle are tax
ing on weight rapidly. Many pound of
meat will be made in thst section this
summer, and heavy shipments Of fat cat
tie will be made from there between the
1st and 10th Of July.
Mr.. Burpett's business at hiB ranch was
to turn over to G. Burnett OF Gonzales
2200 head of cattle, mostly steers, which
the latter will drive to Colorado and put
on the open market.
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&C. French, the genial representative
Of the commission house Ct W. VI. Nell
hanY & Co., returned yesterday after q
long and extensive trip through the
tztHhwest portion of the state. He cor
roborates the tales that have come up out
OF that country, of abundance Of water
and grass, and fat and frisky cattle.
There will be large number OF fine look
ing beeves shipped out from those parts,
he says, in the near future, though they
are not yet in good enough shape to go
On the market.
The recent drop In mutton on the
northern markets has had dsmpening
effect on the sheepmen out west, said
Mr.. French. The cause Of the decline
was the more than sufficient receipts Of
inferior stocks, but he did not think the
depression would continue long as re-
garded fat muttons, the prices tor which
had not been brought down through any
weakness In the market for them, but
through the liberalization which always
accompanied a drop in the market for 5
particular animal. Mr.. French advises
those whose sheep are not good and fat
to keep them at home, where they are
worth far more than they are to tie feed.
ers up north, at the prices now ruling.