Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-18
R0UND-UPS
Benefits of Bureau of Statistics and
Information.
The Refrigerator People Begin Buying Cattle
An Explicit Order in Reference to the
Territory Cattle-StOck Sale.

FoRT McKAvETr, TEX, Oct. IA. 1880.
To the Gazette.
was more than ever impressed with
the Importance of "bureau for infor-
nation and statistics in the cattle bust
nesr after reading Senator Vests views
on the situation. He says:
'fThere were marketed in Chicago dur
ing the last year 3,023 PSI cattle, of
which % to 80 per cent. were COWS, and
4 per cent. calves, etc. He goes on to
show that population in our country is
rapidly increasing, foreign demand is
growing fast, and that the range pro-
duoing district is being reduced annually
By the development of agriculture.
This is all very true, and it requires
very little force of imagination to see
that in the course of time change for
the better will take place, but what is
the sense of waiting an indefinite period
for natural reaction if 1t is possible TO
create a reaction by the application of
modern business methodist
Now we will take the figures of Sena-
tor Vest, which l am quite sure are as
near correct as can be had, and we will
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$40 ''runs,'' which would be one for
every day in the year, excepting Sun
DAYS. They admit OF $500 head for each
sruu :" which l think would be con-
sidered very satisfactory one for most
shippers to have their cattle arrive in.
But the trouble is that some of these
rruns" amount to 20 900, and some-
times 81 900, % 900 and % 900, and this
Is where all the trouble comes in. II Is
not the total shipments, for the 3 ,023 PSI
head are all consumed, which clearly in
dicates q very healthy condition of trade,
and we should congratulate ourselves
that we have market capable of taking
such an enormous SUPPLY of our product.
The trouble lies in the irregularity OF
the runs which gives to the "Big
Four" the opportunity of depressing the
market on the 'big runs and string
up cattle in their cold storage rooms to
tide them over the "small runs.
What we need is a "bureau of infor-
nation and statistics. - located in each
of the shipping or producing states, to
tell us daily how many head of cattle
have been started for this great market
of ours, as well as Kansas City and st.
Louis.
The 'sTexas bureau for instance,
can learn through the gateways or Tex
arkana and Denison, and such other
points of exit as are necessary to watch,
how many carloads of cattle, and what
kind, have passed there at s O'Clock q.
IN. each day. The secretary of our
state bureau should Immediately tele-
graph Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming,
Nebraska, Kansas and all other states
interested, and they in turn should be
wiring TO Texas the amount of cattle that
had left their state in the same twenty
four hours. The result would be that
about 8 CLOCK in the morning every
state bureau would be in possession of
information az to how many carloads OF
steers, cows, calves, ETC., etc., were in
transit to Chicago, Kansas City, St.
Louis or elsewhere.
Now, is there a COW man in the state
of Texas so hollow-h headed as to ship cat
tie il he knew that his cattle would ar
rive on run of 20 900 head? 1 don t
think there is-unless he lives in South
Texas. II that is SO, would it not be
very valuable Information for
shipper to have, In guiding
bis shipments, both as to quantity
ard destination? If it was reported that
80, 900 cattle were in transit from the