Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-25
THE EFFECTS OF THE COMBINE.
SOME EXPRESSIONS ON THE AID
VANCE IN MEAT PRICES.
is THE SCARCITY OF CATTLE A
REAL oNE?-MR. WILLIAM LIT
TIE OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY
SAYS THERE ARE AS MANY CAT
TIE ON THE RANGE AS EVER.

In recent Interview with regard TO
the advance in meat prices. MIR. WI
liam Little, an extensive raiser and
shipper, is quoted as saying;
THE Indian Territory will supply
more cattle to the Eastern markets
this year than ever before. They are
here now ON the hoof. While there
may be a scarcity in some sections. 1t
does not exist here. have Just re-
turned from Fort Worth. Tex, where l
found better feeling among cattle
men, who expect to realize better
prices for their product In 1895 than
for years past. But the market has
advance In the price OF meat to con-
sumers Is not at all proportional TO
the stimulation Of the market SO far
as shippers are concerned, they are get
ting very little more out OF 1t tnan
formerly. In fact, the market has re-
ceded, but there Is general feeling
that prices will be better"
Mr.. Little confessed that he thought
1t was due largely to the newspaper
reports circulated by the combine that
scarcity prevails IN some states. Alr.
Little ships thousands OF cattle every
season, is a citizen of the Territory
and understands the business as well
as any man alive. I'VE ought to get
the present prices and even n better
rate than the present rate without a
penny's advance to the consumer he
said. 1T is the advance to the con-
sumner that has stiftened tho market
for live stock and not the advance in
live stock that has levied tribute ON
every dinner table in the country. In
| other words, the combine has made a
| blum in order 10 discount In advance
another congressional investigation of
| its peculiar methods. You see after the
corner of 1890 the oattlemcn, who re-
| ceivcd no more for their stock than
usual, raised such n howl that sub
committee of the senate committee on
commerce was appointed to see II the
| law had not been violated. senator
| Vest was the chairman OF this COM
! mittec. IL accomplished nothing fur
Their than to give the trust some trout
BILE. Now there is an effort being
made 10 discount, as l have said, an
other inquiry by slightly stiifening the
| market for live stock We hope the
people Will remember only that prices
advanced at both ends of the line and
| forget or even not ind out the starting
| disproportion between an advance OF
| 40 per cent to the consumer ana an
| upward tendency OF the hNe STOCK mar
ket scarcely amounting To the price
Of the hoof and horns per steer"
George b. Loving of this city was
asked what he thought of the situation
| and he stated that the scarcity OF cat
tie was actual. and proof of this was
in the fact that when prices advanced
| there was no rush to the markets. as
was usually the case when there was
an advance. Mr. Loving said that the
cattle were not In the country; they
had gradually been shipped out, and
he was OF the opinion that cattlemen
| would now commence to turn their at
tentlon more to raising cattle and would
keep back their cows from the market,
This would necessarily be continued foi
several years in order that the supply
can again equal the demand.