The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-06-28
CATTLE CHATTER.
News From Over the Great
Range.
Sale and Movement of Cattle
New Stock Companies Or
gapized.

The cattle market here in Austin has
been dull during this week.
There was wreck of cattle train on
the Arkansas Pass road last week in which
eighty beeves were killed.
Some say dehorning hurts and some
say it don't. Meantime, the cattle have
to bear it, hurt or no hurt, and can't even
grin.
Johnathan Miles bought twenty-nine
head of from one-half to fifteen-sixteenths
Jersey stock cattle last Saturday, deliv-
cred at his pasture, from l.. l.. Logan, of
Williamson county, for 000.-Colorado
City Clipper.
The Texas Land and Cattle company
proposes to move from $4,000 to 10000
head of cattle this year from their south
ern Texas ranches, near Corpus Christi,
to their ranch in the Panhandle. They
have made one shipment of forty car
loads
herd of 700 cows with fine and fat
calves at side, from Rowe Bros ranch,
passed here Wednesday on the way to the
Canadian. From that point the calves
will be shipped to the Kansas City mar
ket, The COWS will be returned to the
ranch.-Mobeetie Panhandle.
A. Martin d Co. this week sold fifty head
of 2-year-old heifers at $25 per head TO
Mr.. Beckard.
L. W. Stack passed this point on the 1st
with 1875 head of 3-year old steers which
he was shipping from Childress and Cottle
counties, Texas, to Montana.-Cheyenne
Live Stock Journal.
ha Df
have recently slezed several large punches
of cattle in Their rsrge for violations of
the quarantine law, which provides that
no cattle shall be driven in between May
l and October l The cattle are adver-
tised for sale, but the owners have ap-
peaed to the United States authorities to
nterfere.-Colorado City Clipper.
The George West beeves, sold at Chi
csgo, by Gregory, Cooley d Co., for j. L.
Harris, averaged 1,040 pounds, and
brought $4.S5 per hundred. They were
grass beeves, there we're 252 of them
aud were the top for the season.
In the same shipment, from the same
ranch, we're 127 cows that averaged 757
pounds and brought 1926, which footed
up $24.6) per head in Chicago.-San An
tonic Stockman.
| 1WO TduCum6u vi LEXIS are
reported to have made deal in cattle
recently that smacks strongly of dealings
in futures such as are practlced usually in
commercial exchanges, and has some
bearing now when the question of live
stock exchange is being agitated. They
are rumored to have contracted to pay So
per 100 for $4,000 head of steers to be
delivered in st. Louis during the month
of August the steers to be 900 pounds and
upwards.-Fort Worth Gazette.
The H-Y ranges are troubled with
plethora of cattle owing to the long con-
tinued depression of the cattle markets.
One thousand seven hundred steers have
already been moved out this spring, and
to further tighten the ranges, 1000 COWS
and their calves will be moved shortly.
The calves will be shipped direct to
market at Kansas City, and the COWS held
in the Cherokee Strip few weeks to i'm
prove and fatten, after which they will go
forward to the beef market.-Mobeetie
Panhandle.
W. d. Reynolds, large cattle owner of
Albany, Texas, when questioned by Fort
Worth reporter as to the number of cattle
that had been driven out of Texas this
year, replied that he thought 10000 or at
the outside 10000 head was the limit of
the drive, great many of which, perhaps
a majority, were steers going to the pub
lie land strip, and in a few cases to the
northwestern ranges, but not over 10000
head were breeding cattle. These figures
stand as mere spectre of the former
numbers that came up from Texas every
year.
The Magnolia Land and Cattle com
pany held meeting at the Colorado Ma
tional bank last Monday, and organized
by electing the following officers: J.'B.
McFerran, president; Jno. Z. Moore, vice
president; j. W. Shallcross, jr., secretary
and treasurer; A. Pruit, assistant secretary;
directors, j. B. McFerran, R. j. Menefee,
j. P. Moore, Chas. Bremaker, Fl. M. Cat
lett, W. V. Johnson and j. W. Shallcross,
sr. A. A. Wiley was reelected ranch
manager. The capital stock of the COM
pany is 100000, which is all taken up
Colorado City Clipper.
stock company, to be organized IN
der the laws of the territory of Nav Mex
leo, in which are parties named Hammond,
Baker and Dane, is reported to have in
contemp lation the establishing of an i'm
mense ranch in New Mexico on a capitol
stock of $10,0OO,OOO, which will control
some of 100000 head of cattle. One hun
dred thousand acres of land and 10000
head of cattle have been purchased in the
southwestern part of the Territory from
Doc Bolton, of Texas, and negotiations
are about completed for the procurement
of other large tracts of land surrounding
that already secured. The association is
known as the New York and New Mexico
Meat company. Mr.. Hammond has
turned into the company his long line of
meat markets in Baltimore, and also
complete slaughtering plant in Kansas
City, near which place the company will
establish large feeding pens.