Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-21
F RDUND.UPS.
-.-r vrcb Deep Water viii Benefit the
Texas Cattle Business.
.,-,-.tor Men Submit Propositions to the
''' p',n,s Of Fort wOrth-Fine Horses for
Te1as-Cattle Notes.

yr, Dew C. KingSbury of BOerne'
-.a,ou county, was in the city yester-
md was met by GAZETTE reporter,
", engaged him in conversation on live
49,, matters generally. Mr.. Kingsbury
~. deem interest in the cattle industry,
si.an enthusiast on the subject of
roter as the best solution of the
cattle problem.
nnssn water, " he said, ''is going to
,.rg great benefits to the cattlemen and
,..d owners, especially to the state,
-St,b still owns about 30 900, 900 acres.
T.-irp all other benefits aside, the cattle
.,nrs will food Texas with foreign gold,
,ra rive immense prosperity to all our
wv NV theory, F." he continued, "is this:
r,,,o cattle on the hoot from Arkansas
pas, N England, and when there is
,rsntv feet of water at the Pass, there
Ill never be another Texas steer taken
yn,tb across Red river. The Big Four
eqn have tltu WY AL LAO NOA ~ eHA w
will have our way here.
mDeeD water at Arkansas Pass will
hiring about such conditions that cattle
iii he purchased from the stockmen all
aver the state, and taken to the lower
Rrazos Old Coney and San Bernard
country and fattened there on corn
prouni in the cob and shuck and the cot
IAN seed meal that is so abundant and
cbsoD in all that section, and then put
m steamships that will carry 1000 head
a, time and fed on the same food dur
inc the voyage, and SO fattened that they
viii weigh upon arrival in England from
500 TO 900 pounds dressed meat, which is
worth in England from twenty-five TO
thirty cents per pound. The calculation
Ihare made is sbout as follows:
One Texas grass steer would cost $50. 90
Thirty bushels Of corn at twenty cents $50
Cotton seed meal .............. .....,.-...- 100
Attention to each steer -':''.'''.'.'-.''.. 10y
Transportation TO England. ......-........ 1000
Total cost in England. S5l. 90
Estimating that the hide, tallow
sud OTal will cover the expense of
slaughterng and railroad freights to
The various cities, and that the importer
sells his dressed beef TO the butchers at
twenty cents, there would be a margin
Of profit OF 81 10, margin so great that
would soon run the grass fed Texas
steers up to $50, and he would be cheap
st that. This IN turn would raise the
price Of grass land upon which he is
raised to from 81 so to $40 per acre, and
would increase the value of our school
fund lands at least Sl50 900 900"
II this is all true and will result as Mr..
Kingsbury argues, it is good news in
deed; and he ought to be one Of the best
posted men on the subject in Texas, as
be represented the Southern Pacific rail-
road IN England aud Germany for ten
years, and at one time came very near
forming company in England to get
Texas steers over there by way of Gal
weston, where they would have to be
HghteTed ought TO sea for some distance.
In all the lower Brszos country corn is
raised at the rate of seventy
i've 10 100 bushels to the
acre, and with the present i'm
proved implements 1t only requires about
I'VE days work in the whole year to Guilt
rate and gather an acre, and if the
planter can sell it at his crib in the shuck
ct % cents he can make more money
than on any other crop. The business
Will be no less profitable to our sheep men
they will raise the downs which
sell at SIX months old mt from
aS to SIS. There is no danger
Of Cutting the market for beef in Eng
land. Out of the So, 900 900 population,
mol more than oue-half can afford to buy
Ueeii drop the price one penny and an.
O'ler million will become consumers
sla 60 on. Beef is about the same price
III Germany and France. There is actu-
sA! no telling what deep water on our
yOast Is going to do for US. Not only US,
~ getting out our beef, mutton, corn
Auu cotton, but for Kansas and all the
wuntry to the north of US, in getting
cut their wheat and other products. If
.ps state had sold their bonds and done
sae work twenty years ago their lands
would have built hundred times more
railroads. and q hundred such capitols as
We now have.