The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-29
SOME INTERESTING STOCK NOTES
ROUNDED UP FOR CATTLE
AND SHEEP MEN.
Preparing for the Great Prairie Fires in the
Observation-Disclosures and
Other Items.

Burt Simpson bought no sheer
from Sanderson Bros, at Big Springs
last week at $2.35 per head and ship
ped to Chicago.
The local inspection law is getting
a black eye in the courts on constitu
tional grounds.
There is probability that amounts
almost to n certainty that the NUT
tons that are taken good care of the
coming winter will pay for all of il
next spring.
Experiments in Western Pennsyl
vania and Ohio in crossing full-bloot
Oxford Down bucks with high grade
of Blacktop Merino ewes promise the
best results in wool, lambs, mutton
and hardness.
G. ID. Lake, of Cotulla, was here the
first of the week. He has just com
pleted the purchase of the T. G
Wright sheep, Nueces county, some
$500 head. He is talking of using
some Southdown rams this fall
The fall roundup of the Nolan and
Fisher counties stock association will
begin Mt the Hattenbough ranch, on
Eagle creek, on September LIST. One
wagon will be sent to the middle
| Colorado work.
S. G. Simpson, of San Angelo
bought 100 head of stock cattle from
y. E. Wisenbaker, both of Grare
Creek, at $3.50 per head.
F. b. Ewing, of Tom Green county,
Is having tough time with his regis
tered Jerseys. Two of them have died
since their arrival. The remaining
three are doing well.
The following lots of cattle were
shipped from Colorado City to Chicago
Thursday: George Smith, l car; N.
Rogers, cars; Smith Bros, II cars
b. Gatewood, 3 cars; Scoggins &
Brown, 8 cars; w. B. Holloway, car
j. c. Criswill, l car; A. B. Robertson,
2 cars.
Graham Kennedy has leased his 49,
600 acre pasture on North Concho,
Tom Green county, to S. ]. Blocker.
The Del Rio Record says: Del
Devices and James Stone have made a
trade with Ike Stevens & Co. to sell
them 200 beeves per week. The
beeves will be shipped to the City of
Mexico.
The Nolan and Fisher County Stock
association has contracted with par
ties to pillow fire guard 100 yards
wide on each side of the railroad from
Eskota to Lorraine. The Mitchell
county stockmen should take up the
line there and continue it across the
county. Tie grass is becoming very
dry and there will be some disastrous
fires if the matter is not attended to
The New Mexico Stock Grower,
after careful investigation, estimates
the number of 2 and 3-year-old steers
in that territory at present at 10000,
and feels confident that it is not 5000
out OF the way.
A herd of 693 cattle destined for the
Indian Territory from Seven Rivers,
N. NJ, and were shipped from ANA
rillo few days ago. The T. Anchor
people will ship herd of beeves from
the same place in few days.
A successful stock farmer states
that his experience has proved that
oats cut rs it enters the dough state
and cured and put up as hay pos
sesses better feeding properties than if
permitted to mature and threshed.
The Texas cattle trade just now is
decidedly sluggish-the reason is our
cattlemen don't have to-" In this
respect they are better off than they
have been for some years. They are
not so hard up, their ranges are not
overStocked and the majority can hold
over until another season with very
little inconvenience, and if the market
improves in the meantime they will
be able to get the benefit of it. 1t
certainly can't get much worse.
The following Texans sold cattle in
Kansas City last week: c. c. Slaugh-
ter, 80 steers, 1,1l9 pounds, 1905; A.
p. Bush, 10 steers, 1,076 pounds, $2.70;
80 cows, 9lS pounds, Sl.T5; e6T calves,
1925 each; Winfield Scott, % steers,
951 pounds, $3.50; 81 calves, 1926
each; 10 at 81 each, and "a at So
each.
The following are the latest Change
prices for Texas cattle:
Grass fed steers, 1000 TO HOO
pounds, $40 to $3.50 per 100 pounds.
Grass fed steers. 500 to 900 pounds.
81. 50 to $500 per 100 pounds.
Grass fed steers, 200 to 500 pounds,
sa.S5 TO $3.50 per 100 pounds.
Grass fed COWS. 500 to 900 pounds.
s1.S5 to Ss15 per 100 pounds.
Grass fed cows, 700 to 500 pounds.
1855 to Sl.S5 per 100 pounds.
Grass fed bulls. 100 TO 500 pounds,
sl.T5 to $3.50 per 100 pounds
Grass fed bulls, 900 to 1000 pounds, /
sl.50 to Sl.65 per 100 pounds.
Grass fed yearlings, $50 10 600 .
pounds. sl.65 to $500 per 100 pounds. /
Grass fed veal calves. $50 70 800 .
pounds. $3.50 TO 500 per head.