Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-26
ROUND-UPS.
What Will Result from the Work OF
the Great Cattle Convention.
The Hog as the Friend of the Man of Small
Means Rain Badly Needed on the
Range-GeneraI stock Items

Home again from the Fort Worth convention
tlfe writer cannot say that he has been converted
TO the idea that conventions help the cattle bust
ness With due difference to the
adverse opinions of our friends, THE
S.1FTTE and Live stock journal, we
80 cav ia I nothing beside the nassjng of
+xvss big advertisement for Fort Worth, in the
ean,e vav that the Spring Palace win be. The
,-igf+orS hai 2 good time and a good Texas
cjtv. Gentlemen Of TIE GAZETTE and Journal.
e-S Won prepared to take back the hard things
Won said about this paper when it remarked,
forr weeks ago, that nothing material to aid the
!5-et~v could lie ACCOMPLISHED by this cattle
conventioh?-l Stock Grower.
THE GAZETTE has nothing to take back
that il has ever said about the cattle con-
ventiou or the good results that would
grow out Of it. Great reforms are not
made in d day, but it takes time to work
them out out. The cattle convention at
Fort Worth was the initial movement in
great reform effecting one Of the great
est industries in the country, and time
will show the good that was accomplished
here.
For the benefit of the Stock Grower,
and all other papers that deprecated the
Importance OF this meeting of cattlemen,
Il can with truth be stated that among
the good things accomplished by it we're,
first. a movement that will result in re-
frigerators being started in the range
country, where beef cattle will be
slaughtered, refrigerated and shipped
direct to European ports, thus opening
ND new markets for CATTLE and increas-
inc the demand for cattle. Second, a
movement was inaugurated that will not
stop until bureau of cattle statistics has
fob ho
tive supply and demand of cattle in the
United States can readily be ascertained,
thereby enabling shippers to act intelli-
gently in throwing cattle on the markets.
These are two things that were given
shane bv the greatest and most important
cattle convention ever held in the United
States. and il nothing else had been ac-
complshed this would have been well
worth the time spent by cattlemen in at
tending it. TIE GAZETTE does not at
tribute any improper motive TO the Stock
Grower on account of its anti-Convention
articles, prOphesying that no good would
result from the meeting, but rather at
tributes them TO a failure to be well
posted as TO what the convention was
called for. It was called to ascertain if
possible the cause that led to cattle de-
preston, find remedy, and if possible
TO apply it. This work the convention
did, so far as to agree upon matters that
will in q short time results in benefit to
the industry.
The cause of cattle depression is the
Capitalization of beef cattle at one mar
ket, here combinations can control the
prices for them; the remedy is Il more
equal distribution OF cattle at different
markets, and the establishment of re-
frigerators at different points in the
range country, where the power Of the
Big Four cannot be extended is the rem
edy that will be applied. This, with the
bureau of cattle statistics, will, il ad-
hered to, in time solve the beef lie
problem, and make the livestock as
try stand on its feet once again.