Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-05

regular force and the work went merrily
on until the knocking of hour arrived.
| at which time fifty beeves had been
killed, dressed, and were ready for the
cooling room, where they will remain
thirry-six hours getting In condition for
the refrigerator cars, in which they will
la shipped 10 New Orleans; thence by
the steamships to London.
The animals killed yesterday were all
big fni and opened up beautifully, great
rolls of fat laying along the sides of the
| carcass, and the meat was beautiful
bright red aud well grained. 1t just
such meat as people III Texas have long
heard Of but have rarely seen, and it is
just such rs will be eaten here nfter the
slHuihering business gets under good
Roadway.
THE GAZETTE TAKES THE HORNS.
As souvenir of this great occasion,
Mr.. George NJ. Barnum presented to THE
, GAZETTE reporter for the paper the horns
taken from the first steer that was
| killed, the mammoth black fellow men
ton herein. The horns we're BEAUTIFUL
pair aud will be properly dressed and
| kept as q pleasant reminder OF this great
day in Texas.
''You were forced to take the tail of
| the first pig killed at the packing
| house - he said, "but / will see thut
you get your souvenir from the other end
| of the beast this time" AMI THE GA
zEETE is proud of the horns. which
! measure four feet from tip 10 tip
Killing will he resumed this morning
| nj O clock, and will be kept up r ght
along cattle to be received daily, or rs
they are needed to fill the contract
| entered into with the English syndicate.
which, as has often been stated, Ill re-
! uuIre not less than 60 200 head annually.
his will furnish IL market for that num-
| Der of Texas cattle. which will relievs
| other markets 10 that extend, and have
| good effrc; on prices.
Is not expected that slnughtering
| cnttIs IL, Texas will he confined to the
number required 10 fill this contract, but
| il the cattlemen of the state will en-
| courage the movement, the home demand
| for cattle will 20 On and increase from
year to year until there will be no better
market for Texas cattle than there will
he right here In Fort Worth. Long
| shipments of cattle, big feed bills Ell
route, shrinkage in weight and robbery
ut the eud of the Journey, will all he
avoided aud there will be money in the
cattle business If this refrigerator move
| nent proves euCcesS, hnQ Tor ttat
reason every storkman in Texas, and
| every business man aud capitalist in Fort
Worth should do what can be done TO
| make il u success.
All honor to Ike Dahlman, who has
single handed aud alone once more put
| the refrigerator movement on its feet,
| und il he does not make money out Of IL
he will have the name of having done
more for the business in Texas than any
| one man.
The black smoke and the white steam
| nre rolling from the big stacks and pipes
| at the hu .ldiug, aud hundreds of people
are watching with interest the good wor
| go on.
Fort Worth ereets the cattlemen, and
| points to the Dahlman refrigerator as the
| beginning of the solution OF the beef cat
tie problem. Killing "a tie where they
are raised, If encouraged by the raiser,
W Ii make a big market here, and will
eventually dow II the nefarious combinn-
lions In the East.