Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-07
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A VERY BUSY MAN

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| steady yesterday with no change. The
receipts at the yards were those OF an
/ average day and several sales are re-
! ported One car OF hogs were brought
| in from Grandyiew and ten cars OF
| cattle belonging to A. $. Reed were
consigned to the Standard Commission
| company from san Angelo. one car of
hogs were sold to the packing house
| and two cars to Mr. Hackett. among
| them being the cars received from
| Mt calm.
! George B. Loving & Co. have sold
600 steers for Dan waggoner to j. =.
| Holt for $50 head. They also sold
| 1000 RIO Grundc thrce-y ear-old5 for
a. NJ Brunl X Bro, OF Laredo. william
Cassln Of Batosvllle was the purchaser
and the price paid was $ij
Mr. W. II. Parsons and outilt re-
! turned to uvaldc this week from san
Marcos where he had taken 600 head
Of cattle for MIR Oldham. he purchas-
ing them from Num- 4 Smyth and j.
! II. Kincaid, The trip over was nude
| all right and the cattle were In good
| shape.
Mcssrs. Anderson, Furnish & Co, Of
| Bracket. sold 1000 feeders to McHsiH,
/ McGce & Withcrs. They Will ship
/ them To New Hrnunfcls, where they
l Will be fed ON cotton seed meal and
| corn for a couple OF months. Corn lH
| selling for % cents per hushel at that
| place which makes corn feeding not
very expensive.
George Mccormick Of Midland sold to
| C0nncll n Pemherton, his ranch and
| cattle for the snug sum Of $4,000
\. H. warren, formerly NJ the Phor-
| nix farm and ranch company Of New
] Mexico, has purchased "A half interest
| In the lease Of the Union stock yards at
| salt Lake city. Utah. from j. s. Leary,
aud IL associated with that gentle
| man In the conduct Of the property.
George H. Loving x Co. have for sale
5000 wen bred steers, four to six years
old, weighing over 1000 pounds <yhlch
they are Offering In numbers to suit
the purchaser at S25 per head and VIII
sell on time to responsible parties. walt
ing for the purchase money until the
cattle are fed and shipped out. These
are excellent cattle and until recently
were held at $50
Numerous cattle buyers have been
In the city this week Gays the Eagle
Pass Guide, looking out for Mexican
cattle, It M probable that 100. 600 McNi-
can cattle viii turn Texas grass into
marketable beef this winter for Texas
pasture men who, were Mexican cattle
Htili excluded by the Mckinley $40 duty,
would be forced to see their grass dry
up and blow away. or catch llre and
spread dcsolntlon over the country.
Dan o, Lively In answer to n letter
Of inquiry has received u communicH-
ton from cattle exporting firm now
being organized In san Antonio The
company glvo II as Its intention TO
select one OF the aenports of Texas
from which to ship direct to the Euro
pcan markets cattle and dressed meat
ps we'll The managing director of the
company Is now In England making
tlnal arrangements for the building OF
ahbatolrs, cold storage houses and
whatever Other buildings may be neoes-
sary at the port they may sclocn to
ship from, the port having not yet been
named
The busiest man on the border Just
now is Captain Dan McCunningham.
the government live stock inspector for
the lGl paso district. Speaking to n
reporter he said; I'm few days the
rush OF cattle from Mexico into this
country VIII begin In earnest. Large
herd OF 1900 head OF Britton Davis
paso, Fort Hancock and Deming. one
herd OF 1900 head of Brittun Davis
cattle from Corralltos viii arrive at
Fort Hancock In two or three days
There VIII he some little delays as
the government expects me to do all
of the Inspecting and OF course II
herds arrive at HI Pasu Demlng and
Fort Hancock on the same day | can
not he at each point the same day to
Inspect them, Yes, II X now definitely
known how many head Of cattle en-
tered this country during the last year
from Mexico, though the figures have
never Yet been published, Between
January /, 1894, to January 1, 1895, there
were lsS.6si head OF cattle passed into
this country through the ports OF III
Paso, Deming, Nogales, Bisbee. Santi-
ago brownsvile and Laredo
In stating few days ago that Mr.
9. II, Sllliman was interested with
CAPTAIN u a, Shepard OF Marathon
In the cattle business the Gazette did
not intend TO convey the idea that
MI SULLIVAN had left this city. lie
merely represents certain interests as
agent and has in no ways altered his
business connections with Fort Worth
and has no Intention OF leaving the
city.
p, NJ Dewitt. has returned from
Mexico. where he has been buying
several thousand head OF cattle which
ne intends TO move into this state
A big shipment is looked for the last
of this week from the Square and Com
pnss ranch In Mitchell county.
Merrett & Bell have shipped seven
cars Of beef cattle to market from
Colorado City.
Ben Van Tuylc shipped four cars of
beef cattle from Colorado City TO the
chicago market this week
W. u, Halsell. Ninita. l. T., marketed
at ST Louis LOG steers 1910 pounds
average at $3.50 also i5 steers 1914
$3.50 ''' w
IL. Il. spaulding, OF Museogee, |. t.
was IN st. Louis yesterday and mar
kseted train OF steers at $500 and
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