Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-02
LIVESTOCK.
NOTES OF INDUSTRY THAr,ARe
OF INTEREST.


r.. NJ. Daggctt shipped four cars OF
yearlings to Burke Burnett's B680 ranch
ut Burpct, Tex.
Twelve cars OF cattle went through
yesterday, shipped by j. $. Long OF San
Angelo TO Kansas City.
A. Il. Wooten drove in two cars of Tar
rant county yearlings yesterdy and
nah,
The Union stockyards received nearly
100 cars Of livestock yesterday aud Sun
gay and nifty cars were expected to ar
rive last night.
II; NJ. Winsett sold o65 head OF stock
cattle to lindhcim x Stone AT So round
Iney We're shipped from Del Rio TO the
Captain Green, cattieman Of Blanket,
was IN the city yesterday, having Just
shipped out cattle 10 the nation.
Mr.. ]. A. Thompson Of Kaufman mar
keled iuoS-pound steers at S4.lO, 49,
pound steers at S405. aud S3ipouud
STEERS at $500 at st. Louis.
John s. Andrews came in from trip
TO the Panhandle yesterday He re
ports good rains around Dundee, and
rain.
The demand for Jerseys In the Mis-
souri, valley has been so great that the
proposed sale 10y the Missouri Valley
off.
Tom Christian of Newberg, Comanche
county, was here yesterday. He has
lust Delivered to r. j, Pension at
Quanah 400 head of l and 2-year-old
steers.
The formal transfer Of the Fort Worth
packing house aud stockyards was mnde
yesterday TO the new company, and i'm
mediate steps will be taken to put the
plant in operation.
U. Il. and A. H. Moss started last week
70 gather 500 head Of yearlings from their
large pasture. situated in the southern
part OF Llan0 county. They will be de-
iYcred to $. j. Blocker Of San Antonio.
w, Turner, the Montana csttleman
who has been in the state several weeks,
~ making his temporary headquarters
here He is just in from trip 10 Den
Ton and reports that county very wet
Il. H. Maddox, the well known Fort
Worth fine stock raiser, has lost a vnln-
able brood mare, Signora. She was the
dam of Cyrene. who holds the 2-ycar-
old record for Texas bred running horses.
Last months receipts Of livestock at
Chicago were DDS. 600 cattle. 4O4 900 hogs
and $4,000 sheep, or the smallest months
recelpts OF cattle in two years, aud the
largest months receipts of sheep ON
record.
The Rio Grande division of the San
Ia Fee road has received orders for 1000
stock cars. This means that over 1OO.-
700 head Of cattle are already contracted
for TO be removed out Of New Mexico,
this season,
A general spring roundup in the vicin-
~ fRFfa - L
ress during the week All the big ranches
Were represented, Cowmen report the
cattle doing finely, but say the ranges
are needing rain.
Colonel Hawkins, a big cattle feeder
of Midlothian, Ellis county, who has
becn here for n couple OF DAYS, left f0g
lome yesterday. Besides belng an ex-
perleneed stockman, Mr.. Hawkins can
talk theology like a preacher
C. c. French has accepted an agency
from the Evans-Snider-B company
and will have his headquarters IN this
city along with Colonel VIM. Hunter.
de is good man, keen, leyelheaded
buyer aud will prove TO be a good aC-
QUESTION to that firm.
Arthur INsdall. nanager Of the big
Admir- ranch which extends over Donley
and two neighboring counties, is here. He
reports rain Is no.-let, but the ranch
honey-combcd with wells The cattle are
being constantly improved 10y being
crossed with Hereford and other thor
oughbreds, and for the past two years
the Improvement has been very marked.
The Nm, or Home Land and Cattle
company's outfit crossed the Yellowstone
Sunday morning and proceeded down the
trail. They will drive to Sheridan, Wyo.,
and then ship TO the Panhandle, IN
Texas, from whence they will drive
back five or six large herds OF steers.
The outfit consists Of about 325 saddle
horses, six wagons and the necessary
quota of men under the forcmanship
of Frank Stevens,
Messrs. n s, Hutton and u. Wilson
of Joplin, Mo-, Shipped 30 cars Of beef
cattle from Eagle Pass to the Chicago
market last week, The cattle were
purchased from various ranchers Ia
the vicinity. Twenty-three beeyes
TO the car was the average load, no
that these shipments reduced the num-
Der Of cattle to be supported by the
drying Maverick county ranges, by over