Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-12
LIVESTOCK NOTES.
THE MOVEMENT PROMISES TO
EQUAL LAST YEARS.
Says Secretary wardlaw Of The Union Yards.
News Notes and Personal
Mention

j. G. Avery, a cattleman Of Barstow
Tex, Is here,
j. w. Gibson big cattle feeder OF
he lndian Territory, came ia yester.
day.
j. NJ Daugherty, the Abilene cattle
man, left for the Nation yesterday morn
ing
A. j. Brown, n cattlcman of the Sem
mole reservation, was among yesterdays
arrivals.
H. c. Cogshall, the Montana cattle
man, who has been here for several days,
yesterday returned 20 his ranch.
III. B. Spaulding of Muscogee was here
yesterday en route TO South Texas, from
whence he viii ship TO the nation,
Joel Baker, Jr, of Slater, Mo. n big
steer buyer, and who buys annually ia
this state 1000 or 1000 head was here
Yesterday en- route west 20 ship out cat
lie 10 tile territory.
A good rain would he of great benefit
10 stockmen and farmers Ia this vicinity,
and we are not 80 badly IN need here
MS are other portions of the state. The
clouds that banked up yesterday gave
promise OF relief aud the short hnilstorln
that fell was great disappointment.
w. NJ. Hatcher OF Stanton, Tex, pass
ed through yesterday with twenty-Onc
double-deckers of sheep. Fifteen Of
these were wooded McXicans. and were
being shipped 60 Sycamore, H.; two ours
were for the Kansas City market, aud
four ears for the Chicago market. Az
lowing the usual average Of 2SO head
60 car, this train carried bS's0 sheep
When the cattle shipping season opened
this spring IL was hardly thought By
the most s0uguine that more than 10
per cent MS muny cattle would go north
from this state the present season as
went the previous one. but II the pres.
cnt lick Is kept mp much longer, the move
ment viii not only equal, but surpass
that OF any other year. IL may be- That
there is simply a big rush, aud that IL
viii soon be- over Said Secretary Ward.
law Of the Union Stoclyards ycstcr-
day: "Ihe movement so far equals
that of last year aud don't think the
total will be far behind The ynrds as
yOu see are nearly full and still they
come All the roads are rushed, aud the
end is not yet
Al the Union stOckyards yesterday
l43 cars Of livestock were received and
shipped as follows; From Talpa 10 Chill.
locco, twenty-nino ears by Ike l'rOyOr,
from CleyO 10 Red Rock, 10 cars bg a. n.
WithcmpO0n: from BrOwnwOod 10 Chill
lOcco ~ cars, by Ike PrOyor; from A.
L. COME, Sanding 20 Montgomery, H.,
twcu,y.one double decks Of sheep, from
O. IS. Long San Angelo 10 Kansas City.
seven douDle-decks Of sheep; from Frost
Willard, CyprBs 10 N q. Williams,
POnca, fourteen ears; from Murray Bros.
& Coz lalpa, 20 He'd Rock sixteen cars,
thirty two cars We're expected 10 arrive
during the night The above shipments
are feeders except otherwise stated
The Texas and pncifc stoclyards have
about all they can handle and the boys
got no rest either night or day, 10 cars
Of livestock PASSED through the yards
yesterday until 9 o'clock aud six trains
ware reported 10 arrive during the night.
The receipts itemized were thirty one
carr from BrownWOOd 10 ponca from
Bird & Meriz; twenty-five cnrs from
Dali Bros Cotulla 30 He'd Fork; sixteen
ears from Wilson a Hutton, Alice 10
Chccotah; two cars fat Deegcs from D.
w. Gallagher Alice, on route 10 81
Louis. fifteen ears sheep from ~ n.
Wilson. COmstock enOute 10 Chicago;
fOur cars bceyes from james y. lrtz
simmons, Alice 20 Chicago; twruty-three
double-decks sheep from John Scarborough
Midland 70 Chicago.