The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-03-27
STOCK NOTES.
BLOCKER'S OUTFIT IS BUSY
ROUNDINGUP
Six Thousand steers Other Notes From
Over the Great Stock Range OF
Interest to Dealers
in Stock.
COLORADO CLIPPER.


with the cattle.
NJ. Il. Smissen shipped twelve car
loads of steers to Guthrie, l. L.
Wednesday.
w. J. Cook of Nolan county is feed
ing beef steers on Johnson grass at
his ranch and says they are "simply
immense"
DIR. Lewis will soon commence
job OF spaying 1900 heifers for the
Magnolia Cattle company. He also
has large contracts with John L. Beal
and A. P. Bush.
NJ. u. Smissen this week started a
herd of $500 steers from his Borden
county ranch on the trail for Arma-
rillo, to be shipped from there to the
Territory.
Robertson & Harris started herd
of LOO steers on the trail for the
Comanche reservation last Thursday.
These are the cattle they sold to
Dick Forsythe last fall, to be de-
livered in the Territory. George
Robertson went in charge of the
herd.
We understand that number OF
trail herds from the Pecos and beyond
have passed Midland this week, but on
account of the unsettled condition of
affairs in the Indian Territory the
owners are perfectly at sea and do not
know where to drive to.
The Magnolia Cattle Co. had herd
of $500 steers gathered last week to
drive to Amarillo and shin from there
to the Usage nation, but on account of
the presidents order against driving
cattle to any part of the territory,
they have put the cattle back in the
pasture to await developments. Mr..
Wylie, the ranch manager, thinks
that the matter will be Strengthened
in few days.
The new live stock tariff of the
Texas and Pacific, which went into
effect March 90, makes the following
rates on cattle from Colorado to Chi
cago: Twenty-eight foot cars. $9l 20;
twenty-eight to thirty-one foot cars,
$9l 20; thirty-one to thirty-three loot
six inches, $9S.40; thirty-four foot,
$99.75; cars over thirty-four foot,
$l05.6O. No extra charge will be made
for stable cars. This is a reduction of
about $l2 per car over last years rates.
Ghe rate on double-deck carloads of
sheep to Chicago, thirty-three foot
cars, is $142.lO, only slight reduc-
ton over last year.
SAN ANGELO STANDARD.
John Blocker's outfit is busy round
ing up the Sanderson and Arden pas
lures preparatory to starting a drive
of three herds of 1000 steers each, on
or about the 25th, to the Stoddard-
Howard Live Stock company's ranch
in Wyoming.
Stilson, Case, Ryburn & Co., own
ers of the half circle ranch, are ar
ranging to drive 5000 steers and 1000
spayed heifers to the Nation. The
drive will commence toward the close
of the month.
On Monday Schauer & Pulliam sold
1000 dry sheep at 50, and 500 at $1.75
to Lewis & Mauzy. Lewis & Mauzy
bought 200 wethers, delivered after
shearing, from B. M. Nichols, of Shei-
wood, at 500.
FORT WORTH STOCK JOURNAL.
The New Mexico quarantine against
all so called Texas fever districts went
into effect last Saturday.
The Matador Land and Cattle COM
pany are preparing to ship from their
ranch, in the Panhandle, 1000 or 5000
head of steer cattle and spayed COWS
to Kansas.
A French company has been formed
to import beef cattle from South
America.
Chicago lately shipped GOT car loads
of live stock in one day, breaking all
previous records.
Nelse Morris recently sold ISL car
cases of dressed beef, average Cos
pounds, in Pittsburg, at 1913 per cwt.
Ira Johnson is reported as purchas
ing 1000 head of beeves of A. B. Frank,
held on the Indio ranch, Maverick
county, for which it is said he paid
from SIT to $21 per head. Last year
he bought 1000 head from the same
ranch for which he paid $3.50 per
head, and the majority are
said to be in better fix than last
year. He also bought some 600 head
of E. II. Carr, Dimmitt county, for
which it is said he paid go per hea |,
and that they are extra fine grass
cattle.
The average price of horses is
greater in New Jersey than in any
other State, being $116.50, while in
New Mexico it is the lowest, 5000;
Arizona next lowest, $40, and Texas
next, 1889. Mules are worth on an
average of $120.54 in New Jersey,
$67.S2 in Texas, and 1888 in New
Mexico, which is the lowest.
The sentiment in favor OF refriger-
ators in Texas as the best thing for
the cattle industry of Texas is grow
ing stronger in this part of the State
every day, and the indications are
that they will take hold Of the matter
much more readily than they would
have done a few years ago. The re-
port of the committee appointed to
examine the three refrigerator plants
at Fort Worth COlumhus and Vic