Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-11
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PRICES ADVANCING.
The Market Has Taken the Up
ward Turn.
ESf0WLY GAINING LOST POINTS.
The Market at Home and Abroad-Range
Notes in and Out of the state
Texans With Cattle Abroad
Personal Notes.


George Miller of Winfield, Kan, stock
man, was i'll the city yesterday.
A S. Nicholson loaded out last night six
cars beef cattle foI the Chicago market.
They were good ones.
f. NJ. Daggett will ship out to-day from
the Union stockyards six cars extra good
beef cattle for Chicago, to be followed in i
few days by another good shipment.
]. NJ. Chenoweth of Knox and King coun-
ties, Tex, just returned from trip to
Kansas. where he had taken 1900 steers to
pasture. and viii in few days take 1900
more to Kansas pastures. The cattle be-
longed to H. G. Clark of Dallas, for whom
he is manager. -
Prices in Chicago and St Louis on good
beef cattle are higher now than at any
time for ten days, and cowmen feel that
the market will shortly reach that point
from which the recent decline started.
Private kilograms received in the city yes
|. terday are encouraging, and last nights
Geographic reports verify the announce
ment of the advances.
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TweEty-seven thousand Texas sheep were
run on the Chicago market last week.
Actual receipts in Texas division at Chi
cage last week was 1850 cattle and 1856
calves.
Some good grass Texas sheep sold at
Chicago Monday at $3.50.
One year ago the best fat cattle were sell
ing in Chicago at 50: Monday the same
kind commanded $40; hogs a year ago.
$3.50; Monday, S4-60; sheep year ago,
s.. 30: Monday. $50.
AT the opening of business at the Ma,
tional stockyards. Illinois, Monday morn
ing. there were ninety-one cars of Texas
cattle and other trains arrived, making a
total Of 120 cars before the close of bust
ness; most of them We're on sale. The
market was not much changed. The de-
mand for good to choice grades was firm
and active. The medium grades of cattle.
We're steady, and the grasSerS and slippery
cattle were dull and slow.
The cold storage of meats is being re-
duced to u science and is being practiced to
an extent that is truly astonishing. says
the Chicago Drovers' Journals The system
enables slaughterers to put away meat in
the summer and fall when the markets are
glutted with grass cattle and put it on the
market during the winter and spring.
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For the week ending Friday. June ),
1891. exporters forwarded only It's carloads
corresponding week last year. Exporters
during the week shipped several thousand
contracted cattle from outside points, which
accounts for the small number sent from
Chicago. -
Kansas City reported $500 cattle Monday,
half of them being Texans. The MARKET
was reported steady to strong.
Monday morning Chicago reported 1900
cattle including 1000 Texans, and the mar
ket about steady with closing prices last
week -
The Kerrville Paper says two droves of
cattle passed through town on Monday.
One of them. owned by Mr. Ingenhutt, con-
tanned 500 head of stock cattle and were be-
ing taken to Fort Mckavett The other
herd consisted of 1900 head of beef cattle.
apdEere being taken by j. l.. Jones to his
in kimble county.
The legal battle of the large slaughterers
and the Union stockyard company, Chicago,
over the question of yarGage charges,
raised by the construction of private IN
loading chutes over in '.Packingtown,' has
not yet been decided. Mr.. Morris, who
took the initiative in the matter, is still
talking strongly about their removal to the
Indiana tract. He intimates that had it not
been for the attention demanded by the
erection of the new stockyards and packing
houses at San Francisco, they should
have been ready to move to the TolleSton
tract by this time. While the packers will :.
most likely erect plants at Tolleston, ~
least for the slaughter Of animals bou9ht
west of Chicago, it does not seem vi
likely that they will entirely abandon their