Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-10

An attachment was served last week
upon all cattle and horses OF the P B
| brand, ranging in the southern part of
New Mexico, III 4 suit by the Columbia
| Cattle Company. A bunch of the cattle
| that were brought up TO Deming for
shipment were seized at the stock yards
and started for the ranch south of
there
If those who doubt that farming can be
made to pay here viii take the trouble to
visit the ranch of Mr.. w c. Irwin, they
viii be thoroughly convinced Last year
he raised enough corn to feed 100 saddle
horses, fatten 500 pork hogs, feed other
stock about the ranch and still have 1000
bushels LETT for sale. Mr.. Irwin, however,
is different from most men in this section;
he cultivates his fields, rain or no rain,
breaks up the land deep duringthe winter
| and by 80 doing has never failed to raise
an abundant cfop.-CCotulla Ledger.
ID. r. Webb of Baird who is connected
With the Ravenna Ranch Company OF
Callahan county, was in Fort Worth last
evening on his way to Albany. He gives
most encouraging account of the condi-
ton of things in that part of the country
tie says there is more water on the sur
face than was ever known before at this
season of the year, and that the whole
country retains its summer-like appear
ance, the mesquite holding their green
leaves even up to this time. The cattle
men are well fixed for feed in anticipa-
ton of hard winter, but up to the pres
ent have had no use for it. The Ravenna
company have 2000 bushels of oats for
feed for their horses, but it is not being
touched.
The stock growers of New Mexico are
becoming thoroughly aroused on the wild
animal question. The press all through
Northern New Mexico and the Panhandle
country is a unit in demanding, of their
respective legislatures, some sort of re-
lief. The Las Vegas Stock Grower says:
''The depredations of wolves and other
noXiouS animals is a reality and griev-
Gus evil, and heroic measures must be
applied to meet it. This is a contingency
Of range cattle raising that can be
handled without consulting the wishes of
the dressed beef combine Our legislature
has the power to put into operation
method of action which viii remove the
curse of the herds and focks. A bill is
now being prepared which will be laid
before our legislators for enactment into
a law. -
Major ] . D. Warner, secretary of the
live stock sanitary board of New Mexico,
and one Of the leaders of the cattlemen
Of that territory, was in Fort Worth yes
terday, and was interviewed by Ga
ZETrE man regarding the cattle business
there. Everything was satisfactory on
the ranges, he said. Although there was
a shortage of grass and a scarcity of wa
ter last fall, betokening a hard winter
on stock, thus far they have come out
first rate, the weather having been pleas
ant and mild, and unloozed-for rains
having come to fill up the
water holes and make the grass
bloom again. The losses so far have been
down to a bare minimum. The cattle
men expect to put their produce on the
market next spring under conditions that
will net them more money than has for
merly been the case. They will first
ship to the Indian Territory or Kansas to
fatten, and then put them on the mar
ket, for, though New Mexico is a first
rate breeding country, the best to be
be found anywhere, the arrangements up
to this time for fattening are not COM
plete, though the progress made in that
direction # late years has been highly
before long the cattle bred in
that territory win all be fattened there
Major Warner through the columns of
the New Mexico Stock Grower, of which
paper he is editor, has from its incipiency
been a persistent advocate of the move
ment toward the passage of state and
territorial livestock inspection laws, and
spoke very enthusiastically of the chances
for the securing of such measures in the
near future. AS far as New Mexico and
Arizona are concerned, he said, the
people are a unit in favor of them, and
little or no opposition will be made to
their passage. In Colorado their is opposi-
ton from the railroad interests as well as
from those under the influence of the
combine, out assurances have been re-
ceived that the support will be sufficient
to secure favorable action by the legisla-
ture, Notwithstanding such strong oppo-
sition. The action of the city of Denver |
very plainly shows the drift of sentiment |
on the matter up there. AT an early day |
a bill of this nature will be introduced in |
the Texas legislature, the delay now be- |
ing on account of the document not hav-
ing yet been drafted by Colonel Broad |
head, who is taking extra precautions to
make it such as will hold water |
whatever the pressure brought |
against it, for there is no doubt |
the Big Four will move heaven and earth |
to have it declared invalid if possible.
The combine is greatly exercised over
this movement, went on Major Warner. |
In it they see wave that viii sweep |
them out of existence if they do not pre- |
vent its approach. Phil Armour vir- |
tually admitted that much to one of the |
big New Mexico cattlemeu, who met him
in club room in New York, and talked |
the matter over with him. Armour COM
planned of the antipathy borne against
him by the cattlemen as unreasonable,
and said the passage of these inspection
laws meant the destruction Of his bust
ness.
''The story of the freezing out of the
butcher plant in Pueblo, told in this
GAZETTE, is very ordinary I
thing these days, said Fort Worth
to reporter yesterday, ''for
instances of that kind are occurring all
over the country, and the effect of
the Chicago competition in dressed
beef is felt with depressing force
right here in Fort Worth. You wouldn t
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