Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-25
R0UND.UPS.
A Well-Posted Cattleman Talks of the
Future Prospects.
The Calf Crop This Year Greater than That Of
18S9-Ihe Business Getting Down
to Business Points.

Col. 81. II. Campbell, superintendent
OF the Matador company lis in the city,
having just come down from the COM
pany's ranch in the Panhandle. He
brings the usual good report of the
condition of Panhandle cattle, saying
that they are in better fix generally than
they have been for years. The rains in
all that section, and extending far out
on the plains, have been unusually
seasonable, and, as result, the range
is as good as it could be. In CONVEX
sation with a GAZETTE reporter Col.
Campbell expressed himself as highly
pleased at the outlook for the cattle
business.
81 regard it brighter now'' he said
: than 1t has been for years and l be-
aieve from this time on il will be much
better than it has been for several
years past. The market this year, L
think will even up much better than
II did last year and
cattlemen will come out
with from So to SO more per head for
their beef cattle than they did last year.
OF course there will be times even this
year when the runs of cattle will be such
that there will be a glut and prices will
go down, but on the whole the average
will be decided improvement on 1899. -
''How is the calf crop in Texas this
year?'' asked the reporter.
at is very heavy-fully Is per cent.
greater than it was last year. That is
the indications are that it will be that if
not more. The percentage last year was
not much if any over 80 per cent. but
this year l expect it will reach 65 OF 20
per cent. -
''Are there as many she cattle in Texas
now as there was last year?''
81 believe there is. The reports of the
great thinning out of COWS last season
think was exaggerated. You could hear
now and then of q company shipping
thousands of cows to market, but when
you got at the facts of the case you would
have found that they were spayed COWS
and did not cut down the breeding stock
at all. No doubt there were great
many she cattle sold, but the most of
them were from West and Northwest
Texas; South Texas did not join in the
stampede and has more cows this year
than last year. Yes, 1 believe the calf
crop is larger this year than that of last
year.
FDo you think the general supply of
cattle is as large this year as it has
been?''
"No, do not, but the shortage is
not in Texas as much as in other Sec
tions. For instance this year we found
no trouble in putting 10, 600 head of cat
tie when it would have been some time
back impossible to place 1000 head. The
cattle from the maturing pastures of
Lufl Nahr afrO IaNu nd Afh
tons have been sold out and they will
have to be supplied from Texas, New
Mexico and -AriZona. Kansas is buying
Texas cattle to breed, and in turn Ne
braska is buying from Kansas the cattle |
that state bought from Texas. Iowa |
and other feeding states are buying |
heavily in New Mexico. So you see the |
great West is being drawn on to supply |
the shortage in the feeding states, which |
was caused by the wholesale marketing |
of all kinds of cattle last year. The |
supply of cattle in the United States Is
not as large as it has been, but the short
age is greater in the feeding states than
on the range
Glow will the Indian Territory men
come out in view of their having TO evac-
uate that country?'
''They will not be as heavy losers as it
was at one time claimed they would.
Very luckily for them the order to va
cate came in favorable year-when the
grass was fine so that cattle could be got |
in shape and at time when tn cattle
market was taking an upward turn. If
they had to go it was very fortunate that
the time for their going was not fixed at
an earlier date. By fall large numbers
Of the cattle then will be in good fix aud
will be sold at better figures than the
me class of cattle would have sold for
last year.
''You think, then, colonel, that the
prospects for the cattlemen are enoour-
aging?'
81 feel that they are. The cattle in 81
iustry is now getting down to business
basis. Free grass is gone; the Indian
Territory is going and cnttlemen can now
and are calculating how much
It will cost them to raise a calf up to
Oeefhood. 1t used to be the case that
out few If any cattlemen could tell what
{ cost TO raise yearling calf; now it is
and cattle buyers know, or
will know when they come to buy my
,Gttle, just how much it cost me to raise
hem, and they will know how much 1
IAN afford to sell them for. The hap
lazzard style has gone, and the cattle
business Is settling down TO business prin-
,iples. And it will be the best for all
parties concerned-more satisfactory in
III particulars.