Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-07

/ Moro COMMON SlOCh Will NC Sulppeu
| of Texas this year and more blooded stock
viii be shipped in, than during any two
| previous years. -
The St Louis and Iowa cattle company
! have contracted to deliver 5000 head Of
steers, to be- delivered on May s. in ANA
rillo The cattle will be shipped to Non
tana as feeders.-l Amarillo Champion.
| Col. William l. Black will establish a
7 tannery on his ranch, where the skins of the
| Angora will be tanned and dressed for
market The enterprise is sure of success
| in the hands of the indomitable protector,
| and will prove source of profit besides
| furnishing employment to large number
of skilled laborers.- Menardville Record.
The railroad company will move their
large stock pens from where they are now,
one-fourth of mile west of town to q more
suitable location. where they will be out of
town and more easy of access by stockmen.
| They will also put in about 500 yards of
side track.-Nocana Argus.
The first herd of the season passed
through here Tuesday and Wednesday,
| numbering some fifteen hundred head.
They were L f cattle, beef steers, and be-
ing driven in charge of Charlie Williams TO
a summer range on the Beaver, in the old
Neutral Strip. The y l t herds of 10000
| days.-[Channing Register.
A bunch of horses belonging to the
st outfit passed through Panhandle
last Wednesday. They were being taken
to New Mexico to be used on the roundup
in that country *hich begins about the
10th of the month. They had been win
tered in the Panhandle, it being fact that
horses winter enough better in this coun-
try that it pays to bring them from New
Mexico TO winter.-[Carson County Chron-
icle -.
Judge Gard was in town over Monday
night and reports the sale of his steers
about forty head of yearlings and twos-to
James Hastings of Ivanhoe. The yearlings
brought Sl2. 50 per head and the twos about
$3.50. These cattle We're about an average
lot for this county and it has been said
there is a bargain in them. But who is
there in this country that cannot make big
money at raising ycarllng steers for ST.. 50
headi-ILipscomb Interstate.
On Tuesday John Hutson, manager Of the
T anchor ranch, shipped 1913 head of feed
ing steers TO Chase county, Kan, where
they will be fattened for market. This is
the first spring shipment of cattle from
Amarillo. There are now 10000 head of
feeders being driven here for shipment and
are only being held in the breaks On the
southern edge of the plains until grass is
good on these high. level prairies and then
the Fort Worth and Denver railroad will
be taxed to its utmost capacity to carry
away the stock Amarillo Champion.
Mr. L. B. Allen of FIatonia. of the well
known firm of Moore & Allen, spent Tues
day in Bracket. He is genial gentleman,
popular with everyone, and well versed in
all branches of the stock business. The
firm has recently purchased other tracts of
land in addition to the WeymilIer pasture,
and now has some $4,000 acres enclosed.
This land embraces some of the best graz
ing land in Kinney and Uvalde counties,
and is well watered by wells and the Nusces
river. Much of the celebrated old Adams
pasture is included in the land fenced. The
firm has now about 1000 head of cattle in
of meeting Mr.. Allen again Bracket
News.
The Capitol people Will soon start on the
trail for Mantana with four herds of steers,
mum bering in all about ten thousand head,
or about twenty-five hundred in herd.
The gathering IS already going on over the
southern END of their range, and yesterday
and to-day the outfits which were here left TO
help prepare for the drive Immediately. 1t
is expected that the first bunch will start
about the 1st of May, and the other three
in succession during the month. They go
10 the maturing grounds, and will be good
beef by marketing time in the early au-
tumn.-[ Charming Register.
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