Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-19
CATTLE CHATTER.
A Quiet Day Among the Trad
ers, With Little Movement.
BETTER VALUES COME TO STAY.
A Correspondent in the Breeders Gazette
Commenting on the Present Move,
Which Should Have Come
Two Years Ago.
General Livestock Notes.

Eight cars of fine sheep of the Southern
Pacific We're in the Texas and Pacific yards
| yesterday, billed for Chicago.
Superintendent Butler of the Texas and
Pacific stockyards, figured up yesterday
the prepaid feed business for the last
twenty days. and it amounted TO $500
Pretty good showing.
The Texas and Pacific stockyards were
| nearer empty yesterday than they have
been for six weeks Only three cars, $50
head of yearlings We're in the pens, they
being extra fine ones, the property of y.
! Z. Tandy, going up the Denver. Three
train loads OF cattle were expected in from
the West last night.
H H. Westmorland had several fine
es0ses sidetrackcd here yesterday, en- route
fss5'Abilene, from Springfield, Mo.
A number of trains of feeders were
handled at the Union StocEyardS yesterday,
and last night there were Il number of pens
full taking needed rest and feed, washed
down with pure artesial water.
The packerv put 10 death 500 choice
porlers yesterday and number of beeves,
and the rush is still on, orders stacking up,
and products going out IN every direction,
like the spokeS in wagon wheel.
The Drovers' Journal Chicago, sees fit
to remark: Now that the cattle business
begins to assume brighter aspect and beef
prices are going booming, do not become
dissatisfied if YOU are not in the cattle trade
!, and rush pell nell into it. Peter Cooper
was right when he said: '.While others
run l stand still, but when they stand still
| put out" -
The Stock Growers Journal of Miles
City, Mont, estimates that the shipments
OF young steers from Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona to Montana this spring will
foot Up in round numbers 5000.
Texans at St. Louis National stockyards
on Thursday last:
Gay Borden of San Antonio Tex, had in
a car of cattle.
Henry Fuchs of Burton, Tex, had one
car of cattle on the market.
w w. Brauer Houston, Tex, had train
OF meal-fed cattle. =.
A strange new disease is causing the
death Of many cattle near Missouri Valley
and Mondamin, Iowa. They Will be APP
parently well in the evening and dead in the
morning. II seems TO attack the fattest
and best conditioned stock. The losses
have been heavy -.
san Angelo TEX Standard: The larg-
gest trade in wether sheep that has been
ConSummated in Texas this season was
made in San Angelo on the 10th. Schauer
& Pulliam sold 5000 head to c.. S. Long,
late of New Mexico. Consideration S22, 400.
The stock viii be turned over the latter
part OF May, after shearing.
We do not remember to have ever seen
stockmen more hopeful of the immediate
future than are feeders and dealers of all
kinds respecting stock to be sold two or
three months hence. Beef makers seem
positive of high prices in May and June,
hognen are expecting harvest of profit at
that time, and not a few sheepmen are in
clined to be equally sanguine. OF course
no one can tell what may occur at i period
so far ahead, but prospects for just such an
outcome are reasonably good.-lNational
Stockman. -
The Prescott, Ariz.. Courier of last Fri
day, remarks that 1.-The present is the
hardest season of the year upon range
cattle in the high, cool parts of Arizona,'
and yet in travelling around not many very
poor cattle will be seen out on the range
The 'rustlers' have passed through the
winter very well; not so with several of
the cows, etc, which have remained too
close TO old watering places. Young cows
with first calves are thin and weak, but
now thai grass, alflirea and weeds have
started, NEST of them will pull through"
The Littlefield cattle company, Phelps
White manager, has made an important
sale. 1t has contracted for $500 cows TO go
to the Indian Territory. The herd will be
started as soon as it can be gathered, and
the work will be commenced at once. Terms
of sale private. This company will prob
ably start steer herd north also this sea-
son.
W. G. Triton, manager of the Cass land
and cattle company of Fort Sumner re-
ports that his company will start a steer
at.i ahnl, hrny1
dred, up the trail as soon as they can be
gathered, Mr.. Triton thinks the cattle
prospects are good in the Pecos valley this
year The range was overstocked, but
about fifty thousand head were shipped ont
last year, and the loss averaged fully %
per cent, so, if we have anything like q
good year, the range will have some chance
TO recuperate, and times will brighten up a
little for 1.-The old cow and her owner
-IRnSweu N M REGISTER