Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
OFF AND WEAK.
Condition of the Large Cattle
Markets Yesterday.
1fCLINE ONLY TEMPORARY
A Large Number OF Cattlemen in the City
Yesterday-The Movement from Texas
Points-An Immense Fine Stock
Farm-Home Market.
General Notes.

The following are comments on TeXaA
cattle and prices as taken from last nights
| telegraphic reports:
ST. Lonis-Market steady; Texas and L.
| dams, So 40(9i 50.
Kansas City-Market steady
Chicago - Market steady and slow;
Texans, So 60@3 65.
r. Messrs. James a. Parmour and ClaY.
Merchant, two of Abilene's way-up cattle-
men, were in the city yesterday en- route to
Lillietta, l. T., where they will ship o.
some beef cattle. -.
Ed Reynolds, prominent cattleman Of
Midland, was here yesterday on his way t.
the Territory. -
Mr. Reynolds of the livestock firm of
Reynolds Bros, Albany, was in the city
&c. L. Wear, livestock agent of the Dem
Ever. got in from business trip over his
Capt j. P. Moore, livestock agent of the
Texas and Pacific, is out doing the Western
country. -
Col. John Nesbitt, general livestock agent
of the Chicago and Alton at St. Louis, is
expected in the city Tomorrow.
Capt Bill Hunter, Of the Evans-snyder-
EBuel company, this city, is out on a bust
NV ". i r. Moore and f,.tG. oxshea went y
to Amarillo yesterday on cattle business.
7. Forsythe of Pierce City, Mo-, largely
interested in cattle in Missouri and Texas,
is in the city. He says the country around
Pierce City is in the swim-being flooded.
Connell & Rosson shipped out 1OS head of
beefcattle from the Texas and Pacific yards
l2513s city at 10 o'clock Thursday night
last, mention of which was made in The
GAZETTE, for Kansas City. Early yester-
day morning they received returns from
their sale. They weighed 1888 straight, and
brought $500. This is quick business-less
than thirty-six hours from the time they
left Fort Worth until the shippers had the
money, or its equivalent, in their jeans.
|. Sam Treadwel of the Saline Call, Colo
Erado City, was in the city yesterday, and in
speaking of the cattle interests of that sec
tion said the cattlemen, most of them, had
in the past two or three years been pushed
to make ends meet, but this years deals
had brought them around all right, and all
arrearages to banks and other parties had
been or are now in shape to be Strengthened
up, leaving the cowman snug nest-egg to
draw to, and the future will see him in the
procession neck and neck with the bell-coUuu
W. H. Fusch of Big Springs shipped
through Fort Worth yesterday $500 Sheep
consigned to the James H. Campbell
Company, Chicago.
The markets at St. Louis, Chicago and
Kansas City are down from Mondays fig
ures, but shippers yesterday thought this
to be only temporary decline, and that
next week, by Wednesday or Thursday,
prices would surely advance again. Beef
cattle continue to move, and Thursday there
were loaded out from Abbott, "a cars; fro4
Holland, "a cars from Taylor. SO cars; FROM
sSNaco, 5 cars; from Hillsboro, 12 cars.
Messrs. Christian and Martin, cattlemen
Of Comanche. were in the city yesterday on
cattle business. -
John NJ lizard is back from looking after
his cattle interests in the Territory.
J. NJ Mathis, a cattieman of Goliad, was
mixing with the traders here yesterday.
Charles Mcfarland loaded out some beef
cattle for Chicago yesterday, from Aledo.
LII. Polk, of the Polk stockyards, this
city, left Thursday night for a visit to his J
old home in the hills and ravines Of Tennes-
see.
Daeeett & Cobb have commenced ship
ping out cattle from Dundee to the markets
Cattle In North and Northwest Texas are
now in prime condition, and large ship
ments win he recorded from this time.
~
Tarrant county has one of the finest
graded cattle farms in the state-that of J.
W. Burgess of Blue Mound, fourteen miles
north Of Fort Worth. This farm contains
1000 acres, and is stocked with nothing butt
blooded stock. Mr.. Burgess is breeder
and raiser, and is not in the shipping bust
ness. He has the reputation of raising the
best cattle in the state. Mr.. Burgess came
from Lexington, KY, seven years ago, be-
ing then, and is now, largely interested in
fine stock raising in the blue grass country.
He pays strict attention to color, and any,
thing . little on color receives the knife.
and Is fed for the market The bunch OF