Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
R0UND'UPS
General Livestock Agent John Nesbett
Talks About the Cattle Outlook.
he Has no Hope Of an Immediate Improve
ment-The Refrigerator Rendy for Bu'i-
ness-General Stock News.

Gen. John Nesbitt, general livestock
agent o. the Chicago and Alton railroad
is In the city, and will remain in Texas
for week or ten days. He came III
from St. Louis yesterday morning, and
was compelled 10 sit up oil night, as the
train was so crowded that he could not
get n sleeper This may have made the
general little gloomy, and may have
been the cause OF his taking rather a
gloomy view of things in general, the
cuttle outlook especially, as he evidently
does, Judging from what he said 10 q
GAZETTE reporter.
1.-THE murkPt is rotten said he IN
answer 10 Il GAZETTE reporters question.
''Rottener thHn 1 ever knew il 10 be,
and | see no hope for an improvement
this season. Texans who have cuttle
and can manage 10 hold them had better
do It. The fact of the matter is the cattle
men are being slaughtered most uu-
mPrcifully, and there appears TO he no
help for 1t just now. There will be but
light de muud for feeders this year. The
Strip men are holding back their cattle
as long us possible, waiting until frost or
unti' the quarantine against Territory
cattle is raised intending 10 ship and drive
their feeders into Kansas, Nebraska and
other feeding states, but there will be no
demand for them there, for these states,
on account OF the high price of grain are
even now Shipping their feeders TO mar
ket.'
"What do you think OF the supply of
cattle next spring2' asked the reporter.
big shortage lie not well founded. There
is going to be no 1000, 900 or 8 900 900
cattle short. Us some people are claiming
there will be. Tint is all nonsense.
There will undoubtedly be less cattle in
the feeding states and the states gener-
ally, but do not think there will he
more than 500 ,O90 less in all the country
next year than there are this year"
"Whnt nLout the closing out of the
Indian Terriiory?'
hThere will, OF course, be fewer cattle
there than there has been, but the diff
ference is not going TO be so great us you
think. While there will be compare
lively none from the Strip OF from the
trib Of the blanket Indians. the Creek
Nation nld the nations OF the other four
civilized tribes will lie crowded 10 their
utmost grazing capacity with cattle. |
Besides, Texas Is going to have more |
cattle next year than this. The cattle |
that she furnished the Indian Territory |
mud which were shipped from there 10
market will be kept in Texas and shipped |
from here TO market. As said, the
states may be short In cattle. but the
range country will make up almost the
difference. Montana will have an in
crease OF cattle next year over This
yenr's supply. tell you l do not re-
gard the outlook rs bright by any means.
wish I could say different, but Gun
not 4"
"You mentioned the fact that the cat
tlemen were being slaughtered. Who
by?''
"By the men they sell their cattle to.
Did you ever figure mp the profits of the
dressed beef meh2 Nor Well you
should 10 it, and then you would realize
The truth OF what say in all Its fuilness.
These fellows are growing rich and the
men who raise the cattle are growing
'oorer the longer they stay in the cattle
business. Nearly nll the caitlemen have
ost money this year. l know some of
our Texas people whose losses will 90
ugh up in the thousands, bur the profits
Il the dressed beef men still 20 on all the
anne.
Nov just look herel' said the gem
raj, figuring away on n piece of paper,
"a beef steer weighing 900 pounds
that's fair average of the range steer),
it sells at So 80 q big price) will bring
q Chicago SIC. 10, but II will ID ore fire.
uently bring less. This steer will dress
SO pounds of beef, 200 of which is hind
unrter, which the dressed beef men get
x cents for. making Sl2; fo.' the other
10 mounds they get five rpGts. or SIP so,
laking for the meat S24 80. Add to
his IS for the hide and 81 for hoofs,
orus, blood, etc. md they get SIS so
r. the steer, or clear profit of 81 so
men they pay 81 30 for him. Now
utcher in Fort Worth, or anywhere else, '
no kills only one or two beeves per day
build not live on any such profit, but {
hen we consider the fact that these
ressed beef men kill as high as 1900 {
cad II cattle per day, We see that these c
rodts run mp TO at least $3.50 daily, or O
yer 81 600. COO per year. Z
'But these fellows do not pay $3.50 |
'r all their cattle 10y a long shot, pay I
IL 81 % nnd 81 80 twicsA and three c
mes where they pay So 80 once. just v
Iade the calculation on the g % tasis I
tcause II shows the smallest profit made a
them. Take 900 pound steer that &
Ills for S2.25 and he brings the pro- | II
icer only S22 20. leaving the profit OF b
&c dressed beef man Sc 20, or when O
llinR OF 1900 per day, profit OF over Y
u 200. o. course they make no such ! &
offs every day, but these figures are. q
ir samples of how the thing runs. And | II
liz you, IL makes no difference what q
ry bay for beef cattle, S225, $40, b
80 or 800 they sell the meat ct the Il