The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-22
RANGE NOTES.
INTERESTING STOCK NOTES GATHER
ED FROM EXCHANGES FOR CAT
TLEAND SHEEP MEN.
The Demand for Sheep on the Increase
Prominent Travis County StOckman
Favors Dehorning-Other Items.

Wilson, Runnels county, for $S5.
Lewis & Mauzy, of San Angelo,
bought 440 head of sheep from h. H.
Overall, of Coleman, at 1925.
Garland Odom says that cattle in
the Chadbourne country are in better
fix now than they have been during
the past five years.
Fred Poyser of Colorado county,
las week sold fifty-six head of stock
horses to w. L. Power at SIG around.
Mr.. Power shipped them to st. Louis
for sale.
Sohn S. Powell & Co., sold car
load Of unbranded yearling colts to H.
d. Nelson, Trenton, Tennessee, at $13
around. The same firm Slipped car
load of horses to Chetopa, Kansas.
The Clayton Enterprise says
Sample Bros, received during the past
few days 1000 head of cattle from
Clay Mann, of Menard, Texas, and
about 800 of the Triangle Dot and Y
up and down cattle, delivered by j..
G. Hill. These cattle are to be
branded at the yards here, after which
they will be driven to Dakota.
The Bronson Cattle company have
recently purchased what is known as
the Gray range, eighteen miles south
of Midland, Texas, and will at once
move their Pecos herd and the one on
the Rio Grande, to the new range
The last named herd will be shipped
via the Texas Pacific from Hancock,
while the former will be moved by
trail.
"There has been more demand for
sheep this year than there has been
for many years." says Jack Meara, of
Tom Green county, "the demand is
still on the increase, and stock sheep
is sure to go up" He thinks in the
neighborhood of 100000 pounds of
fall wool will be marketed in San An
gelo this fall.
VIM. B. Blocker of Travis county,
well-known to old trail men, has
adapted himself to the new order of
things and is now thorough stock
farmer and a firm advocate of dehorn-
ing everything on the place. Mr..
Blocker is among the most successful
of stockmen and this season has ship
ped a large number of fine beeves to
Chicago and other markets.
Let the prospective live stock freight
rate war in the northwest extend to
Texas is the fervent prayer of all
pious live stock shippers just now.
Never was a time when the live
stock business should be done by
weight more than now, when the mar
gins are necessarily very narrow.
Mr. j. NJ. Hefy of Cameron, Texas,
sent ten cars OF cattle to market and
sold 21S, $40 pounds of beefin Chicago,
but he paid freight on 1000 pounds,
thereby paying for 1,166 pounds in
each car, that the railroad did not
haul, and could not put in the cars
The excess paid for hauling wind was
1926 per car.
Lewis & Mauzy, Thursday, sold 460
Concho county sheepin Pittsburg, Pa,
at "a 40, and 600 at Buffalo, N. Y, at
$3.50 per hundred.
They also shipped ten double
decked Car loads OF sheep e, 400 head)
four cars from Goldth waite and six
from Angelo, last week. Three cars
went to Buffalo, two to Pittsburg and
five to Pendleton, Indiana. Mr.
Mauzy received dispatch Wednesday
from ST. Louis, stating that the sheep
had passed through there all right and
that the 1000 head lot that ne bought
from J. M. Taylor, of Menard county,
averaged ninety-two pounds at st.
Louis. He paid Mr.. Taylor $3.50 per
head for these sheep; NJ . Kreid, of
McKavett, $50 for 316 head, and ].
w. Martin, Goldthwaite, $3.50 for
1850 head.
What Texas needs as safeguard
for her live stock interests is a home
market of respectable dimensions, sup
ported by canneries, pork-packing
houses and dressed beef establish
ments, not necessarily to consume
everything, but to furnish the safe
guard 80 necessary to relieve the
greater markets of the eternal strain
of over supplies. Such home market
must have a beginning, and to get
that beginning stockman must exert
themselves. 1t is not necessary for
the stockmen as body to go into the
canning or beef-packing business, but
they can offer some inducements for
others to do so. They could offer a
bonus, guarantee the rental of build
ings for term of years, or offer so
much per head for the first hundred
thousand cattle killed and canned in
the state. individual stockmen who
might be able could take stock in the
enterprise.-Texas Live Stock Journal.
II Needs a Cathartic.
Waco Day: The Fort Worth Ga
zette is inclined toward railroad regu-
lation, but the Dallas freight conven-