Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-07
IINESrONIN NOTES.

| Worlds fair ut chicago. The steer was
on The streets yesterday
LIVESTOCK NOTES.
Sum Cutbirih. the well known cattle
/ muu of Callahan county, Texas, and
| luOla, J. r., Is 10 the city lie says
cntur have wiuterod so FAR in FIRST clnss
1 shape. Hnd that losses have been prnrtic-
ally nil. lie bell 'vcs in good prices zoo
| the future, and is taking iu some good
sized lunches Of cattle for shipment to
the territory in the spring
" y. Curveu. the Henrietta cnttleman.
took trip To Hamilton county yesterday.
Richard Ilolgntp. big mnch"r ana
cattle buyer of brentwood, is IN the
city
John w Shelton Of Mobcctic came in
20 the livestock center yesterday morn
ing.
y. Fonon Of Midland. manager for
The Bronson Cattle company, Is iu the
city.
Colonel Tobias Odem Of Ayord Is IN
the city talking COW TO the visiting stock
men.
Richard Ilolratc Of Brown county was
iu the city yesterday and says cattle are
wintcring wcll In his section.
G. Brccdlovc Of Fisher county. cattle
man and lawyer. was mixing with hlB
Fort Worth friends yesterday.
a. Vs. Leo Of the TcNns Livestock
Commission company of Chicago BE- he the
city His firm handles nothing whatever
but TcXns cattle
George W Stcndhnm. catlcmau Of
The y. ! a., after spending HE Sahbuth
in this gudly city. left yesterday for his
home ot EulWln
Receipts of hogs last week at Chicago
were 900 smaller than q year ago,
This emphasizes the Oft repeated state.
mcuts made relative to the hog shortage.
H. e. lloncycutt Of Grccuyilc mark.
cited car OF cattle ut ST. Louis yc~ter
day which touched the J-ceui mark
They were beauties aud no mistake
Mr. Mccoy. uf the firm of Mccoy a
Underwood of st. Louis aud Chicago,
puHsvd through the city yesterday cn
route TO- San Antonio
~. g. Clark. Dallas cowman, passed
through un route To the Panhandle yps.
to-day lie says the late cold spell
killed o. few cattle, but that ON the whole
there was mo- kick coming to the Cnttlp-
mcn this season
Receipts of liycstock ut the ST. Louis
national stock Yards during the week
ending Feb. \, iS93. amount to lIT2j
cattle, lNllI hogs and 1850 sheep,
against 1883 cattle l175g hogs aud
The figures show an inrrcusc for the
past week of llOO cattle. 1886 hogs aud
a decrease of IB3 sheep
The rrports from an parts of the great
cattle states excepting those Of the OK
trrmr northwest, are thnt the present
winter be- exceptionally favorable 10 eat.
IT,, and that the LOSSES are merely numi.
nal One reason Tor this and really the
buHt one thut can be- offered. Is that the
cattle were In better ilosh. and. iu fact.
iu u hvtIvr condition all round 90 stand
thc winter than has been he case for
several years aud etnCkmcu say thut
even had the winter been OF equal Sewer.
ty to some lint have proceeded il, the
mortality would not huy" boon half sn
large uD In years when the cattle went
into the winter poor
The Cotton Belt rs becoming IL keen
competitor of other Texas lines for live
stock business a year ago her traffic in
This line wus practically uil. But live.
Etug. agent WIS appointed u the person
of j, W. iurhcc aud Mr. Burbcc began
tu rustic for business. As % hustler hr
is % great success, and hc can now point
with pride tu un increase la livestock
traffic Tor his line of several hundred
per cent for the past sis months.
W a. Way representing In Texas the
firm oi g. q, DAILY ~ Co.. commission
q
of ihc mlh prices cattle and hogs are
bringing hc said TINT those who hold
them, especially hogs would and were
making pig profits lie attributes This
TO the fact that hogs had reached 80 low
a figure year cor two previous that the
farmers put their land into wheat IN
stead of corn, causing almost u hog fam
inc, aud nj course the scarcity of cattle
has been the cause uf what rise has tnkcu
place In theW
Samnuy =. b. Carver the Henrietta
Cnttlemnn, shipped eighteen ears of fine
National stockNards, East St Louis. Via
the Cotton Bplt route. \ phcnominnliv
inst run was made, the cattle leaving
sulphur Springs ut y p m. Saturday.
and arriving no tbc Yards nc n. M.
Monday Passenger time,
An Arizoun cuttlcmnn said Yesterday
that nearly 10000 cattle ARE being frd.
principally ON alfalfa in the Salt river
valley that territory The coWuen nrp.
hc states, riding thrir ranges very frr.
uuouuy us they anticipate LOSSES, mud mr.,
very careful to brand an the cattle by.
longing to them
A local stockmnu Yesterday mndp hc
prediction That hcol famine Wua ran.
idly approaching His reason was thp
shortening MP ut the herds during tho
last two years
y Scarborough of Midland placed a..
OOO sheep uu the Chicago market lnst
year The Woolcd sheep averaged S6G5
por loo pounds and one big bunch III
wooded grnssers brought SG3A the hipb.
pgl urlpp midi tlurinr tina Nnap