Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-15
Livestock Notes


M. G. Ellis g. Co., sold car of local hogs
to the Fort Worth Packing Co.,
The packery killed yesterday $50 hogs
and about fifty head of cattle.
Receipts at the Union stock yards were
light yesterday and were all local.
The Queensland, Australia, wool clip this
season is much cleaner than that of the
last.
j. E. c. Sprounce, a prominent local cat
tleman, has two cars of corn fed steers on
the market.
At Omaha last month $3.50 was the high
est price paid for cattle, and the bulk sold
at about 50. 40 and S3.s5.
In Ohio and Michigan, especially the 7lat-
tersitAes sheep are getting thinned out. The
result will be that orders for the eastern
markets will come to the West.
Hogs are up little in the Fort Worth
market The quotations are: Good hogs,
S4.O0@41 Is; $50 to 200 pound hogs, 81 1908 so.
cows bring $L75@2,50; steers, $2.75@3.00.
c. NJ. Warren special agent of the Gulf
Colorado & Santa F'e and n. P. Cothran,
yardmaster of that road at Cleburne were
visitors to the Union stockyards yesterday.
w. L. Gatlin, of Abilene, has sold to w.
H. Godair 5000 calves, to be delivered in the
Territory. at $500 per head. This is be-
Two trains of feeders arrived at the
Union stockyards yesterday afternoon via
the Santa F'e. They are being shipped by
NJ. Half and brother from San Angelo to
Elgin, Kansas.
The result of Mr.. G. B. Loving's trip to
Weatherford Saturday, was the sale for the
Kentucky cattle raising company of 1000
three-year-old steers to w. w. L. Richards
of Dakota, at $3.50 per head.
The Sheridan, Wyo., Post in a recent
issue says that the farmers and stockmen
are highly elated over the beautiful weather
and fast disappearing snow, and the pros
poets are growing brighter each day.
The SHOWS have caused the range cattle
to drift among the settlements in Washing
ton county, Colorado. They are ravenously
hungry and no ordinary precautions on the
part of the farmers will keep them off.
A car of ponies arrived at the Texas and
Pacific stock yards yesterday. They are the
property of the Home Land and Cattle COM
pahy and are being shipped from R lge to
Panhandle city for the use of their en-
ployes.
The second representative meeting of the
range stockmen of South Dakota convenes
at Rapid City, April6 A permanent or
ganization uniting all the local associations
and representing every range section, will
be perfected.
John Harris, of Colorado City, has sold
to Hurst, Black & Slaughter, stockmen of
New Mexico, 1000 yearling steers at $500
per head, and 1000 two-year-old steers at
$1,000, to be delivered at the Rocking Chair
ranch. in the Panhandle, by June l. :
Almost panic exists inparts of Scotland
and England relative to the spread of cattle
disease. The board of agriculture has
issued an order prohibiting public or private
sales of cattle, sheep or swine, except by
license from the local authority, and even
then certain regulations as to marketing of
the beasts must be observed.
The colorado Clipper of March 10 says:
Our local stoclSmen who attended the Fort
Worth Convention have returned home in
fine spirits and full of enthusiasm at the
rosy outlook. They report the convention
as the largest and best attended ever held
in the state, and much work that will re-
dound to the stock interest was done
Buyers and sellers were there in goodly
numbers, and great many cattle were sold
at good prices. The outlook is considered
better than it has been IN a number of
years. and the old time feeling of confidence
is rapidly returning. The stockruan who 4
has held on grimly in the face of so many
discouragements, certainly deserves a full
share in the return of prosperity.