Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04
LEON TIE PANHANDLE.
r,s Rains, Thriving Cattle and Good Cor
ditions all Round.


,,,. Rains. Thriving Cattle and Good Con-
ditions all Round.
roI. H. Campbell, one of the best
,o.,sd eattlemen in the Panhandle ooun-
.rv and an old-timer on the range,
ryiting TO the Stock Journal of May 3,
lives the following intere sting points to
oattlemen:
tIFor the information of those inter-
s.tad generally, and more especially
,boss who are now on the trail from
Soutbern Texas, l would be glad to re-
mort through your valuable journal that
rs have had the finest rains that have
fallen for nine years throughout the
whole plains country, from the Texas
and Pacific road north 10 the Fort Worth
and Denver, (Amarillo). Herds can
poV mass on the plans via Estacado,
Fpworth, or Plainview, over the finest
Of grasses and with abundance of water,
q scope of country of l20 to $50 miles
north aud south, without the trouble of
pastures. Whereas they would have
continual trouble from the Texas and
Pacific Throughout the whole Panhandle,
east of that line until they reach a point
az far east as the old Abilene trail.
lam glad to see that the people gen.
orally throughout the state, and more
especially the stockmen, have deter
mined to have refrigerators established
in the Southwest. This is a step IN the
right direction at last. If we had spent
more time in this direction during the
last seven years, instead of trying to de-
strOy the only ones we had, those OF
Chicago, st. Louis and other places
known as the Big Four-we would have
been better off to-day. 1t Is strange to
me that so many of our prominent stock
men should 90 SO far as to call on our
national congress to destroy branch
Of our industry, doing a legitimate
business. Now we have started
out in the right direction. With deep
water on the gulf coast, retrigerators
and packing houses throughout the state,
with the proper sanitary or quarantine
laws passed in our state, as they have
been in others, we see a bright future
for the cattle industry again. Without
our legislature, though, will take steps
IN that direction convincing the balance
Of the world that we intend TO guard our
state from any contagious or other DIS
eases that cattle or any other stock are
subject to, we cannot expect our cattle
to be shipped or driven or IN any way
mixed with those that have been prop
erly guarded from diseases.
Through our Chicago capitalists our
cattle have been introduced into Liver
pool and other new markets competing
with other beef producing countries, and
now, while they were only twelfth in the
beginning, see there was more Ameri-
can beef sold in that market during the
last season than all the rest of them.
This shows that our beef is popular, and
oy all working together we will be able
10 compete with the world in good
healthy beef, not only in carcass, but 1
look to see the day when American beef
Will be sold in that market as "store
cattle or feeders. And to great ex-
tent We are to-day indebted to this 'Big
tour for bringing about this. 1t Sc ems
mat the trouble has been with the peo-
PIE to find out the cause of the depres-
t,oh IN the market, and finding nothing
elSe, they simply had to blame some
one.
now 1t has been perfectly apparent to
oil those that were not prejudiced
against the fact, that we were over
socAed' that we at least had accumula-
Ecu upon our hands more cattle than we
Soa'eu outlets for, ways and means or
S1auiels 10 reach the markets of the
"u''u, thls overproduotion having been
eaused by the great influx of cheap
money INTO this country to be placed in
cattle, creating an extreme price for the
a'ae' ana indeed the price of Yearlings
suu tWo-year-old steers reaoheda point
n,sh that everyone went into the
saeeulhg business, and &C the end of $50
o "e FOUND ourselves stocked and with but
ouo market to sell to.
:. ADMITTING this one market was an evil,
certainly was necessary one, and IN
- e euu good will come out of it. I could
S'. on and give several causes why our
rac 2lless went to nothing, such as bad
Tnairtasement by inexperienced men,
fo- a.ns oad purchases, paying too much
renoa placing too many on one
v aT.o' suu allowing the stuff to go to
nc uenoralizing to the business in
hssr, 90 Vi capitalists. Since 'S7 we have
tho .unioaaing, and we have reached
nrj- po.nl now where there is more in-
II ho Ier packers, and the buyers seem
ana ,I more anxious than for four years,
We ,s I'm Inc light that is before US now
tbs ouLu not allow ourselves to commit
W. aine error that we have in the past.
larrs nav nave got the finest prospect for
se S.s oil crop throughout the West that
rain. 4'e had since 1884, aud with the fine
to ~ nave had we can expect
and s,as ist cattle for the market
c ondi.,ol cattle 90 into the winter in
sintsr. OI 70 stand one of our must severe