Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-23

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passed Brush. Morgan county. Colo. last
week en- route for Montana. Four other
nerds. which are now on the trail, have
not yet arrived. Each herd consists of $500
one and two-year-o steers.
The trade in dressed beef is steadily gain
ing on the live cattle market In 1890
2 223, 593 animals were slaughtered in Chi
cago, an increase over 1889 of 460,661.
The spring roundup about De Beuue,
says the Denver Field and Farm, is finished.
Cattle were in good condition generally,
but the calf crop was short
The Texas cattle market at Chicago
on Thursday was very slow aud about 10
cents lower; grassers sold at 81 25(d3 40
and fed steers at IS. 50td400
Chicago reported 800 cattle Friday, in
Guiding 1000 Texans, and called the market
steady. This makes the total run of 63, 500
cattle, against 40. $50 last week and As. 1856
during the previous week. The market
was quiet but steady. grassers, 9O6 to 93S
pounds, s2.25 to 800; fed steers, 913 to
1908 pounds, So. 40 to $500; cows and bulls,
$1.65 to s. 40 -.
At the National stockyards, Illinois, Sat
urday the business of the week closed in
bad shape, prices being 25 to 40 cents lower
than week ago, with the possible excep-
ton of choice shipping cattle. Cattle which
sold at about $50 were not worth over
S5.25, although the choicer grades are quo
table at $3.50 to IS. The big end of the de-
cline is on the half fat grassy steer cattle
and the fair to medium qualities in cow
stuff ~
The Yuma Sentinel is authority for the
statement that Montana and the East will
take 10000 head of cattle out of Arizona
before fall, while 10000 will go into Cali
fornia -.
A herd of 700 steers belonging to Charles
Press of Fredericksbu passed thrSuSh
Menardville last Thursday, going to San
Angelo. =
r R. Russell started from Menardville
last Thursday with a herd of 1876 head of
fat cattle for Kansas City.
As an evidence of how reservation cattle
pay, B. G.. Claymore, ST., of Okobojo. S. D.,
recently turned OFF thirty-two head of cattle
at an average price of $40. 20 per head. This
would surely indicate that Dakota grass is
worth something when put into good cattle,
Tor II takes good cattle to bring such prices
The Field and Farm, Denver, says: THE
cattle scare in the divide country has as
sumed dangerous condition of affairs.
The cattle owners of Ebert county signed
petition quite freely last Saturday and
presented the same to Governor Routt ask
ing him to establish a quarantine for the
affected district, and to prohibit all cattle
from the district to be driven into Douglas
or Ebert county, The cattlemen fear it is
TeSas fever. The nature of the affection,
howevecy Should not warrant any such con-
gcl hsiph for various reasons. In the first
4 1rTn In. how. hn
symptoms are not identical with those ap-
Parent in Texas fever
In another paragraph the same journal
says: THE cattlemen of the divide country
who are exercised by the mortality among
their herds, are not doing a wise thing in
petitioning the governor for quarantine
order Let the impression once get out that
Texas fever exists among the herds of
Eastern Colorado and it will greatly dam
age the cattle industry of that portion of
the state. The deaths are caused by noX-
ious herbs on the one hand and the wet
weather, watery grasses and cold nights on
the other. There is nothing new about
these deaths; they happen every year and
are only increased this year by the unpre-
cedented rains. The losses are unfortu-
nate, but there is no contagious disease
to be alarmed about
w. W. Jones was in Beeville last week
delivering 600 head of beeves from his Live
Oak county ranch to Col. Suggs. They are
said to be the finest sent to market from
this section this season,
The cattle shipments last Saturday even
ing by the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
railway, from Kennedy junction, were:
three carloads by Charles Smith, seven by
J. Y. Bell, three by james Summers, four by
d. Hunter and three by J. and Charles
Wofford. -.
Fourteen carloads of fine beeves left
Comanche on the 18th for St. Louis.