Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-13
Livestock Notes.

George B. Loving made trip to Wealth
erford yesterday. His object is to make a
steer trade.
7. 7. D. Andrews, manager Of the Home
land and cattle company, is moving his
Office to the first floor of the Hurley build
ing. where he has secured elegant and COM
modious quarters.
McCauley & Huffman, the well-known
Sulphur Springs stockmen, had car of
cattle at the Union stock yards yesterday.
They averaged 1913 ponds.
T. K. James of Burnett had in two cars of
hogs yesterday. They were sold to the
Fort Worth packing company.
Two cars of fine horses were received at
the Union stock yards yesterday. One car
goes to Newport, Tex, to start a livery
stable, and the other will be shipped TO Pc
COS City. They are from Wellington, Kan.
On Monday Mr.. ]. L Butts will again
take the superintendency of the Fort
Worth Union stockyards, vice R. Worde-
man, who has resigned to accept position
as buyer with the packery. Mr.. Butts has
been with the well-known livestock firm of
NJ. G. Ellis & Co. for the past two months.
The San Angelo Enterprise SAYS very
few realize the magnitude of the stock
shipments from San Angelo in the spring.
II is estimated that about 10000 cattle will
be shipped to the Territory in the next two
and, as trains are made up on the Santa
Fe, 100 solid trains Of cattle. This, in con-
nection with the mutton shipments, ought
to make good income for the Santa Fe.
The next wool clip of New Mexico will
probably by the largest in the history of
the territory and the quality superior to
that of any previous year From every
section reports are that sheep are doing
well.
Many cattlemen in Colorado are selling
their cattle and going into sheep husbandry.
Others are studying the sheep business,
and will invest in sheep if they ascertain
that there is good money in them. The re-
suit is sheep are on the boom" just now.
Australian hockmasters are collecting
specimens Of wool from all parts of the
word for the purpose of ascertaining what
kind of sheep it would be practical and
profitable to cross on their merinos.
NJ. G. Ellis & Co. yesterday sold a car of
cattle to Charles Dooms, and tive cars of
hogs to the packery.
The Fort Worth packery killed yesterday
BOO hogs and fifty head of cattle-rather
light run.
CCol. Hoxie, president of the Fort Worth
packing company, IS about to take trip to
the East for several weeks for the benefit
of his health, as he is run down by hard
work and needs recreation. It is under
stood his first objective point is ChicagJ.
Receipts of livestock since January l at
Kansas City, including Thursday, aggre-
gate 200, 1872 cattle, 247S calves, 527, S21 hogs,
and "A, 507 sheep. Compared with the cor
responding time in 1891, these figures show
an increase of 80, 1SS cattle, GIL calves, 6347
sheep and decrease of SIS, T24 hogs.
There is a large number of common hogs
on the Cincinnati market with no demand.
Kansas City during March, 1891, received
62, 1926 CATTLE coo hogs and 26,539 sheep.
During March, $780, there arrived 100000
cattle Isl, 600 hogs and 43, S3S sheep. Dur
ing March, 1889, $4,000 cattle, 10000 hogs
and 1886 sheep arrived. 1t is expected
this months receipts of hogs will fall de-
cidedly short of year ago, while the num-
Der of cattle will show marked increase,
During February there were shipped east
from Chicago 434S cars of dressed beef, or
4S,042 tons. For the same month the ship
ments of livestock eastbound amounted to
101,3+6 tons.
Pecos valley farmers are shipping mules
from Missouri and Illinois by the carload,
aud about Eddy and Roswell are some OF
the best bred horses in the West
The San Simon cattle company Of New
Mexico have sold through their manager,
G. w Merchant, to r. NJ. Allen, manager
of the Standard cattle company of Wyom-
ing, 1900 two and three-year-old steers, to
be delivered at San Simon station on the
Southern Pacific railroad, at Sl2 per head
for two and SIG per head for three-year-
olds.
Cattle exporters are beginning to recover
from long season, nearly two years, of
depression in their business and heavy
financial loss. About four thousand head
of live cattle are being exported from New
York to the United Kingdom every week
now, and from twenty-five hundred to
three thousand head from Boston, and
shippers say the business has again become |
profitable.
Galveston Wool Market.
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