Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-02-27
R0UND.UPS.
o,+tlpmen Talk About Cattle Matters
and the Cherokee Strip.
.,-...ock in Honduras - A Good sale OF
thoroughbred Acknowledgement
stock Items

Aparty of cattlemen were in the Office
wang s. Kuhen yesterday morning
,',orssiug cattle matters in general, but
mo nrIncIpIe portion of the conversation
-os directed to the prospects of the mar
,.a+ for 1890. In the party was MIR. R.
q Roberts, a well-known representa-
,;-sof Chicago cattle commission firm,
william Powell, the Hereford breeder
,-oro Rbome, and Col. W. G.. Young Of
.bs Tlauo cattle company. Mr.. Roberts
,.d recently been in Nebraska, and said
.h.t state was short on cattle, and would
Sara 70 draw supplies for feeding from
other states
sTn sections where l once saw great
,.r7s OF she cattle held for breeding,
tbar. are none now, the great rush of
aattIe 10 the markets last year having
lion all these cattle with it. 1t is not
IL the case with she cattle, but steers
ori calves went with the rest, and now
aTerv man you see up there is wanting
earrings TO feed. "
nIt is the case everywhere, re-
marked Col. Young. 'fIn all that Sec
+on where our cattle are there are no
,fg cattle. l believe I have the only
bnnch in that portion of Texas and there
ora onlv about thirty live in it. Cows
,-are run out of this state in the general
stampede, and last spring the number Of
calves dropped were about half the usual
amber. In all that section west of here
f-.u. Amarillo down to Austin there are
not half the cattle there was a few years
ago."
The conversation then drifted to the
effects Of the evacuation of the Cherokee
Strip by cattlemen. Mr.. Powell thought
II would be OF great benefit to North
Texas cattlemen, but said that it would
be rather tough on South Texas, from
where was driven the larger portion Of
cattle that were grazed in the Strip.
''Theu, - be continued, when that
country is settled up, Gs Kansas now IS,
il viii he another great feeding section
that will furnish a market for Texas
cattle. -
Chow many cattle are annually
driven from Texas to this Strip" was
asked.
"About two hundred thousand head D"
was the answer.
'"Wherp, then, - was the next ques-
ton. "wiu these cattle find market
when Strip cattlemen will not buy
them?"
This was q question that was answered
by no one, and it is an important one for
Texas cattlemen. Who will buy the two
hundred thousand head OF cattle in the
future that have annually been bought
IN Texas by the Cherokee Strip cattle
men? Col. Young thinks that the presi-
dents proclamation ordering the cattle
men out was good for Texas cattlemen,
or any other cattlemen who owned their
own range.
"For, - said he, "we have our money
invested in the land on which our cattle
Craze, and the interest on the money in
vested and the taxes on the land is the
difference between what its costs us to
get cattle ready for market and what it
costs those fellows up there. II has been
competition that the ranch owners
could not maintain against the men who
we're leasing lands in the Strip. The or
eeriDg of the Strip men out had to come
Gud it Is best that it came when it did.
It may hurt the cattle business for
time, but in the long run it will be
good thing for US down here. These fell
lows have been feeding on us for a long
time, and now We can feed a little on
them.