Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-30

Market-General Notes.
/ Stock cattle in Tom Green county are
selling at $3.50 per head.
The San Angelo Standard reports that
twO-year-cld steers are rapidly increas-
ing i'll demand and price in that section.
Cattlemen from all parts of the Terri
tory report the range about Clayton in
much better condition than in their re-
spective sections. Indeed our range is
in a fine condition.
1t is stated that Capt S. w. LomaX has
resigned his position as manager of the
Espuela ranch and has been succeeded
by Fred Horsburgh, who has been as
sistant manager for several years.
NJ. q. Smissen had two train loads of
Tom Green and Territory steers on the
Kansas City and Chicago markets last
week which sold for $50 per head. He
says that Kansas City is the best market.
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P. NJ Moore of Wheeler county re-
Gently purchased a Poland China SOW
for which he paid $50. His neighbors
purchase, but when the SOW dropped six
pigs those same neighbors bought the
pigs at $40 head. Fine hogs as well as
fine cattle are what is wanted in Texas.
W. 2. Marshall, q stock farmer Of Col
lin county, last week bought from Frank
Lerch the J . Reiche survey of GAO acres,
situated on Main Concho seven miles from
san Angelo, at So 80 per acre. At least
| fifty acres can be irrigated. Mr.. Mar
shall viii Immediately fence the place
and engage in mule and horseraising.
He will move his stock out from Collin
county in the fall.
Capt. Lee and wife OF Roswell came in
Tuesday evening. Mr.. Lee is manager
of the Lee cattle company, and came to
the city to deliver 2400 head of the COM
pany's cattle to S. Hawks, assistant
manager of the Soda Springs land and
cattle company, which sent out 100 car
loads from this point to Soda Springs,
Idaho, yesterday and to-day - Clayton
IN. NJ Enterprise.
G. c. Perry, resident manager of the
EsLibeTty rauch center of Dawson county,
in a letter Of July %, says: Our crops
are as fine as one could wish We had
good rain two weeks ago, another last
night, and it looks like rain again to-
night. Who was it that said it never
rains on the plans? We have melons in
car loads and garden truck in abundance.
Corn, mIllet, kaffer corn, etc, all
thriving as well as in any agricultural
county in the state. Grass fine every
where and cattle fat.
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John s. Powell was rounded up by a.
GAZETTE man Yesterday, and in aeon
versation on the cattle situation said that
absolutely nothing was being done. He
said there was some prospect for the
horse market reviving soon, but so far
as cattle was concerned hope was dying
out
"'The fact of the matter Is, - said he,
"'the markets East are being ruined by
the rash of trashy balf-fatted cattle.
This causes the price of good beef cattle
to be kept down. Until this rush is over,
and don t see that it will be soon, there
is going to be no Improvement in the cat
tie market. [ hope, however, that it
will result in good in the long run, and
believe when the surplus of scrubs are
gone that people will begin to raise a
class of cattle that will command at all
times good fair prices.
cone thing that is depressing the
market for good beef cattle at present, -
said Capt. Z. b. Harold to a GAZETTE
man yesterday, els the fact that large
numbers of inferior cattle are being
rushed into market. This rush, to some
extent, is caused by the fever scare in
the Indian Territory. Men who have
cattle there that are about half fat, and
really unfit for market, are rushing
them out to the markets, fearing the
fever, and the result is that good beef
cattle are depressed. How much fever
exists in the Territory l do not know.
Some shy there is considerable and others
I clam there is none to amount to any
Shng What is there, 1 understand,
was introduced by Arkansas cattle, and
not cattle from Texas. I don t think
these depressed conditions will extend
into next year. l believe there is a goodk
outlook for cattle in the future. 49,
TO STOCKNlRN.