Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-19
ROUND-UPS.
CottIa Business Reviving and the Out
look Growing Brighter and
Brighter.
, cattle Loss Of 100000 Caused by Green
English Upstart-General Stock News,
Notes and Personals.

II NAV be that the orders in regard to
+ba Indian Territory by the department
ot rbe interior, and the proclamation of
.,s president ordering cattlemen from
the Cherokee strip, is going to do some
damage TO the livestock business this
year. but # 1t is there has been no indi-
cation of it up to the present; in fact,
the signs are just the other way, and
there has been q steady improvement in
the tone of the market for some time.
The demand for stockers may not be so
great Just now as it was last year at this
time. but prices, if anything, are a
little sitter, and it is the general belief
thai better times are ahead in the near
future.
The Denver Republican in an editorial
on this subject says: "lt is a satisfac-
ton TO know that the cattle business Is
reviving. Stock cattle command much
better price than they did year ago,
and the prospect is good for general
Improvement in the business of cattle
raising.
The cattle industry has suffered under
depression so long that it is especially
gratifying to know that a change for the
better has come. For q long time cat
tlemen hardly made expenses, and some
of them lost q great deal of money. 1t
seemed as though, Notwithstanding the
rapid increase in population, the cattle
supply Of the country more than kept up
with the demand for beef. Doubtless
much of this was due TO the competition
OF South America in the European mar
kets The foreign demand for American
cattle fell OFF in consequence of this COM
petition, and the annual increase IN the
home demand was not sufficient TO make
I'D for this decrease IN the foreign de-
mand.
But the home demand has now so far
increased that there is in comparison
with few years ago a scarcity of cattle
in the country, and so the price is forced
upward Recovering in this way, it is
probable that the price of cattle never
will drop back very much again. It will
always be good, even though the day
may come when it will be profitable TO
import cattle from South America to
help supply the home demand.
Great changes are noticeable now in
the way the business is conducted in
comparison with that in which it was
carried on ten years ago. There is less
Of the rough element in the men who are
employed in it. 1t is more of a steady,
well-defined business. At one time cow
boys seemed almost to be licensed to do
anything they wanted to do. They were
like soldiers on a campaign, responsible
IN only d vague way to the laws. But
now they are more restricted IN their
actions and they are compelled to con-
duet themselves generally in a more
orderly manner.
Gradually the farmer is encroaohing
upon the domain Of the herder, and wire
fences are being employed TO cut the
range INTO fields and pastures. 1t is be-
coming more and more evident that, in
order 10 make. the business profitable,
cattle viii have to be cared for curing
the winter. Winter feeding thus comes
IN as factor in the business. Some of
the changes involves an additional ex-
pense, but it is an expense that the BUSH
hess can bear. -