The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-10-10
THE RANGE
SHIPMENT OF STOCK TO THE GREAT
MARKETS OF THE
COUNTRY.
Sale and Purchase Of Cattle and sheep.
and Other Notes of
Interest.
SAN ANTONIO srocKMAN.

SAN ANTONIO sToCKMAN.
Texas rangers are not spotted" this
year, All grass and very wide.
There is boom in the sheep bust
ness in New Mexico.
Canadian buyers have been picking
up Australian wool in Boston.
w. P. Gerfers, Bexar county sold
500 young wethers last week at 1926.
The range for Texas and western
sheep at Chicago last week was 1926
to 81.
The wool market abroad, continues
firm.
The tone of the wool market is i'm
proving.
Heavy run of sheep to Chicago last
week.
Col. Henderson says that wool
growers should keep their eyes on the
manufacturers. The colonel, as usual,
is eminently correct. They need
watching right now.
If present values of cattle are to
remain permanent, cattle must be
raised cheaper. There may not be
much consolation in this, but the fact
remains.
Sorghum fodder will keep well, left
in large cocks in the field, and unless
you want to use the ground before
hauling out to feed, this is cheap
way IN handla
The meat mongers have all the time
denied that there was among them
combination to control prices. They
have not been on the witness stand
yet, but their book-keepers have, who
state that there has been such COM
bination.
COLORADO CLIPPER.
A. B. Robertson shipped twelve car
loads of the Num- cattle to Chicago
Wednesday.
A. A. Wiley has an order filed for
ten Street stable cars to ship some
beef cattle in to Chicago.
Tom Love, manager of the triangle
H ranch, was in town this
week, and says that at last plentiful
rains have fallen on his ranch.
East st. Louis market: G. r. West
Sweetwater, SO steers, 9lS pounds,
$3.50; 56 cows, IT'S pounds, $1.90; 33
heifers, 607 pounds, $2.10. Delaney &
Bro, Sweetwater, "a steers, 1905
pounds, $3.50
A. B. Robertson bought 200 young
steers last Saturday from Geo. Evans,
ranching near Van Horn, at $3.50 for
ones and $11 for twos, the cattle to be
wintered by Evans and delivered next
April.
A. A. Wiley, manager of the Magno-
liza ranch, says abundant rains have
fallen on the ranch, and that there is
now more surface water than for sew
eral years. Grass is fine and growing
rapidly.
Chicago market last week: f. G.
Oxsheer, 215 steers, S54 lbs, $245; B.
w. Jones, 300 sheep, 83 lbs, Mo; H.
w. Mccoy, 223 steers, 1854 lbs, $2.75;
w. H. Gilliland, 81 steers, S4S lbs,
$3.50; 30 steers, 1877 lbs, $3.50; so
cows, 1855 lbs, $3.50; Winfield Scott,
10 steers, 905 lbs. $3.50; 63 COWS, I'll
lbs, $3.50; Iowa & Texas Cattle COM
pany, 2O7 COWS, S14 lbs, S1.9O.
FORT WORTH STOCK JOURNAL.
Very little is heard nowadays about
improving the herds. Low prices
have paralyzed the industry for the
time being.
Andrews & Graham sold this week
for the Fields Valley Land & Cattle
company, of Young and Archer coun-
ties, 5000 three and four-year-old
steers to j. M. Chittim, of Victoria,
Texas. The price was $18 per head.
Messrs. Andrews & Graham, of Fort
Worth, sold l, 700 head of grade Here
ford cattle, all ages and sizes, to Mr..
d. Harrington, of Harrington, Kas.
The cattle were in Concho county and
the property of Mr.. J. G. Mccarthy,
manager of the Fort Worth union
stock yards.
w. s. IkaId, Of Henrietta, sold to
Sam Tubb, of Kickapoo, Texas, the
Berkshire SOW, Sallie Cardiff, Xiv
No. q ,l49, for the sum of $50. Mr..
lizard has sold seven pigs from her
this year at SIS each.
Mr.. B. II. Gale, Colorado shipper
who had received $3.50 per hundred
for lot of fat LII wintered Texans,
said to the Drovers' Journal that when
he commenced shipping. five years ago,
he got $3.50 to $5 for his cattle, with
out any complaint about quality or
docking for "broken ribs" Now they
had much better cattle, which buyers
called "canners," and they we're hard
to sell at the low prices current. Mr..
Gale remarked that this must be an
evidence Of the more highly cultivated,
tastes of buyers. AT the same time
Mr.. Gale said he could see that with
reasonable run Of cattle at market for
while prices would greatly improve.
Mr.. Gale might also remark that with
a reasonable RIM of cattle the tastas