The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16
STOCK NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Papers Pub
lished in the Stock Country.

Items of Interest Culled From Papers Pub
lished in the Stock Country.
FORT WORTH STOCK JOURNAL.
Godair, Harding & Co., Chicago,
sold for w. H. Godair 597 steers, S74
pounds, at $2.35.
u. T. Wakefield, of Colorado City,
sold to D. N. Arnett 1879 stock cattle
at 81 round, calves counted.
John Scharbaur, of Midland, bought
of Herman Snider, of Chicago, an
undivided half interest in 1000 head
of sheep, 700 head of cattle and ranch
of $4,000 acres of land.
Mr.. J. w. Lynch, buyer for the
Dahlman refrigerator, is out among
the boys looking for fat beeves to send
to our English cousins via the Fort
Worth and London line of steamers.
He says there will be no difficulty in
getting all the beeves wanted.
The ocean vessels that the Dahl
man Refrigerator company have char
tered to ply between Fort Worth and
London 1--WE say Fort Worth and
London, because these are really the
termini of the routes, although the
ships come no further than New
Orleans) must weigh anchor and out
on the appointed day every two weeks.
They 60 loaded with 600 tons of
refrigated beef.
SAN ANGELO STANDARD.
About 100000 pounds of wool were
sold at San Angelo since last Satur-
day at from Is to 20 cents.
M. Meek of McKavett will market,
in San Angelo 700 pounds of the tieecy
today. He took chance i'll the sulky
pillow yesterday.
Ten car loads of half circle six steers
were shipped to St. Louis Saturday
night.
On Wednesday G. B. Metcalf sold
500 Y OF steers to NJ. Il. Smis>en,,
and the latter sold the former 100
head of horses.
James Temple of Seguin arrived
Monday with 200 head of horses look
ing for ranch.
Stevenson & Hadley sold close on to
sixty bucks this week.
T. G. Leedy returned to Santa Anna
yesterday morning. Thursday he sold
$50 stock sheep, unshown, to Mr.. Faulk-
ner for $500.
DR.. J. w. Hous, of Burton, Wash
ington county, was in the city several
days this week and with the assistance
of Nub Pulliam and Allan Mac
lane sold 100 steers, Is. 2's and 3's,
in the Arden pasture, to Graham Ken
edy, terms private.
For the eight months ending Aug.
81, At ,404 900 pounds of wool was i'm
ported by United States from the
United Kingdom.
Wool is selling in San Angelo as
high as % cents; San Antonio at Is
cents and Colorado, Big Springs and
Midland at 10 IL cents. No further
argument is necessary to establish the
fact that Angelo is the boss wool
market in the state.
Bird & Merit, for ]. B. Cherbino,
this week sold rams as follows: To
Berry Bros, 20; Rouse, 5; M. Meek.
IL; w. G. Bartlett, Z; Stark, McCul-
loch, county, III.
A 10000 pound lot CT Texas scour-
ed wool recently sold in Philadelphia
at 80 and 56 cents.
COLORADO CLIPPER.
The sheep men are preparing to.
drive south.
Cattle are in fine fx-fatter than
ever before at this season.
Claude NARROW says the reward of
$25 is still out for the roam filly.
A. B. Robertson has an order from
Chicago for twenty cars of cattle on
the 10th.
Nave-McCord Cattle Co. of Chicago
has an order for fifteen stable cars.
via the Santa Fe for Oct. IL.
F. G. Oxsheer made a purchase of q
lot OF l and 2 year old steers on Tues
day-number and prices unknown.
J. M. Williams shipped on Monday
to st. Louis eight cars of cattle-one
car OF steers, one car of bulls, two cars
OF COWS amid four cars of calves.
G. G. Slaughter of Dallas bsson
order for forty carloads of beef cattle
to be shipped on the 18th. STRAIGHT
stable cars.
Fred Simpson bought on Wednes
day nine head of hogs weighing l350
pounds gross, for which he paid S4S5
per hundred. N Yf'''
Xix Bros. & Co. have sold a half
interest in their sheep business, con-
slstlng of 1900 head, to ]. B. Incas
consideration 1926 per head ''
;, inos. Van Tuyl, who has swine on
the ranch, will probably be the fr u
shipper of car to the new Tars oS
packing house at Fort Worth tr~na