The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-07
LIVE STOCK NEWS
AND MARKETS
TODAY's STOCK SALES ECLlPsE
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS.
The Aggregate Reaches Upwards Of
$3.50, 900, Western Union Beet
Co. Selling $4,000 20 80, 900
and John Kennedy IL, 900.

To-day has been record breaker in
the live stock trading centers Of San
Antonio, and has been fitting closing
TO one Of the most active weeks in the
history of cittic business in Texas 1t
has still further emphasized the pre-
eDinence of this market over all other
1--we stock trading markets in the coun-
try. San Antonio has ROW become the
Mecca" for all the cattlecnen in. the
country whether they want to sell or
buy. interest i'm the cattle business,
which has been lying dormant during the
past ten years Of depression, is again
reviving throughout the country and
many who have been out of the business
for years are preparing to go back into
1t again, and many others who see in
1t a profitable means of employing their
capital are looking into it as an invest
ment. The wonderful advance in values
Is still startling to the country-t is like
the discovery of q second Klondike-
and the despised COW OF year or two
ago has suddenly become mine of
wealth. and il being sought after and
cherished accordingly. As shown by
y,
coming yearlings, as We; little more than
calves, are selling at SlI per head
When it is not so very long ago that
in the sale. of COWS and caves these
same calves would almost have been
thrown into deal to secure the sale
OF the cows at one-hale the price the
calves are now bringing.
A $4,000 DEAL
Geo. b. Loving 4 Co. sold yesterday
for the Western Union Beef Company be-
tween 5000 and 10000 head OF stock
cattle on the company's ranch in Pecos
county. to ]. L. McEiroy of Pecos CITY.
The stock III the deal is a mixed herd
of stock cattle and comprises the COM
rany's entire holdings on that ranch.
The price paid is SIG per head all
around, which viii swell the aggregate
of the deal to between S100,o00 ard
SiS0,00O. This is one of the largest
transactions in stock cattle that has
been made in years, and rs a pretty good
evidence that cattle are regarded as
good property. The sale also includes
the leasehold on the T. " ranch of 30U,-
900 acres in Crane and Epson counties,
which Brought $4,000 additional, and
under the terms of the trade the cattle
will b. delivered at this ranch in the
spring.
u
The largest sale of young cattle and
Of the ''toppiest' price yet reported in
the annals of the cattle business was
concluded here yesterday. John Ken
nedy, whose ranch hes to the south
west. of Corpus Christi, sold TO David
son Il Fleming. who have figured prom
inently in so many big cattle deals THE
year, 1900 head, being the entire steer
branding of the ranch this year and
next, for SIT per head, spring and fan
delivery. and comprises the entire crop
of this springs and next springs calves,
except the thoroughbred herd. 1t is re.
garded by cattlemen as one Of the most
remarkable sales that has been made
in this remarkable year. Containing as
1T does the distinctive feature of con-
tracing for calves not yet born. These
steers are said TO he very fine cattle
high-bred and desirable. This sale ag-
gregates $204,000.