The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-18

cattle paper will be losers, allow me to
call his attention 10 the fact that there
never has been a Texas cattieman VINO
has failed to meet his paper when called
upon. and nine out of ten times the paper
is taken up before it falls due. Gener-
ally the funds are in the bank many days
before the paper is due. Banks or IN
dorsers will not lose a dollar on money
loaned to Texas or Indian Territory cat
tlemen.
True, we have had hard winter up
to date, but every hour in the day the big
ranches have men out on corn-fed horses,
drifting their herds to shelter and feed.
mo better paper is in existence than
that of the cattlemen. Bankers can look
back to money panics and remember that
cattlemen paid their paper when no other
class Of business men could do the same,
no matter how honest were their motives.
"McCoy's statement is unfounded and
might have a tendency to injure good men.
We have had a bad case of rascality in
Kansas and the fugitive Is now in Mexico,
but this man was an adventurer and never
had any cow sense. You may rest as
sured he never came from Texas.
"A great deal of snow has fallen in the
Panhandle of Texas. and it has been good
for the cattle. as the ranches have plenty
of shelter and the grass grew high and
furnished ample feed for the herds. There
is no danger Of aloss of cattle unless the
/ stockmen allow them 10 drift against the
south fences and stand and freeze. can
/ assure you the cattlemen in the Panhan-
/ die are hustlers and will lose few, if any,
cattle. AS for the Indian Territory, no
cattle are loose on the ranges. All are
/ or feed. and the abundance of feed raised
last season gives each and every cattle
owner an opportunity to buy feed cheap
and in plenty.
'McCov's statement, Those who are
holding cattle paper are bound TO suffer,
IS false. Next spring will see the best
cattle market we have had for years
Five-cent cattle Will be plentiful, and cat
tlemen will be in the best Of shape. Cat
tie are bound to bring good prices. The
decentralization predicted by Mccoy will
he the greatest boom we ever had, and
prices will be correspondingly good. You
can rely on a dead sure thing, that the
big cattle commission men are losing no
sleep over the predictions made by such
unqualified prophets as Mccoy.
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sured that money placed on cattle in Tex
as and the Indian Territory is gilt-edge.
The records show that you can put Texas
and Indian Territory cattlemen against
the world when it comes to meeting their
paper.
Look at the statements of such reliable
men as Winfield Scott at Fort Worth
out of 1000 head in the Indian Territory
only % dead-and J. X. Sanderson Of Big
SPRINGS and Midland, Tex.-no lasses. Ano
there are many other such reports. Inc
men named are as reliable as we have
/ in the state of Texas.
'eThe dry. cold weather we nave had haf
killed all the germs of disease Throughout
the state of Texas, and there will be nd
! losses from fever in summer and fail, as
, heretofore Taken altogether, TINS colo
, weather has been a good thing. Plenty OF
feed and shelter for the cattle and lots OF
, money for the cattle dealers will make
= unusually prosperous times for stockmen.