The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-02-27
DOES NOT
APPLY HERE
w. P Anderson, Of the Santa Fe,
Rejects Pryor Statements
About Cattle Conditions
CFrom Tuesdays Daily)


tlemen before the senate committed
none OF the allegations attributed
10 Messrs, Ike T. Pryor and Sam II
Cowan apply to that part OF my to,
ritory" states William Penn Ander.
son, travelling livestock agent for the
Santa Fe here, yesterday, in discus.
sing cattle conditions and the rail-
roads, with the exception OF the
statement that there were approx
mately 10000 cattle that might
have been shipped out OF the coun-
try that were not. But this fact was
not entirely due to car shortage nor
TO operative disabilities caused by
the entire reconstruction of the San
IA Fe line from Texlco to Yelling
ton, but almost wholly to other con-
ditions. SO far as the Pecos Valley
lines are concerned, their patrons
who we're the most injured we're the
d small stock growers here i'm the
Panhandle. And these men have
their own association, numbering
about 1900 members, the Panhan-
die Livestock association which
does not play politics at home nor
make entangling alliances outside OF
the state with either livestock COM
mission brokers or stock yard com
panies. The Panhandle Livestock as
ISOLATION represents the Panhandle
OF Texas and confines itself to the
commercial protection OF its members
TO the legitimate necessities of brand
inspection on the public markets,
and elsewhere, and to the public
spirited development OF the country.
No PecOs Valley Cattle Ready.
There are no cattle in the Pecos
Valley, outside OF few for the local
demand, that are prepared for the
consumers market. Colonel Pryor
was probably mlsquoted. The only
direct shipments to the consumers
markets are dFy COWS and old bulls
and there were but few of these last
fall tit for anything except for can
ners. The class from the ranges
mentioned are always late summer
and fall shipments and they would
not have made any money after the
panic. The death rate during the
winter would have been ~ btedly
very great among this class Of cattle
but for the kindly intervention of
Providence in the shape of copious
rains in the fall breaking a drouth
Of over two years spnding, which
caused the vegetation TO more than
double its life sustaining qualities
Through the winter until even now
,.range cattle are holding their own,
and with the spring rains the whole
Pecos Valley country will be IN bet
ter condition than for several years.
From the present outlook the pros
poets are that cattle owners will be |
able to make contract deliveries with
out the failures which have attended |
such transactions for two or three
seasons.
Mouth FrOthing" Against Railroads
The squids in some newspapers
which have become current as items |
in livestock papers rejecting ad-
versely to these facts were not in
spired by practical information from
the cattle ranches, but are the Sc
quence OF the epidemic Of mouth
frothlng" against railroads and does
not amount to anything except to
allow the inference to got abroad that
the cattle of the valley have deterior-
ated in value in consequence of a
car shortage last season, while we
know that the animal condition Is
approximately from 10 to 20 per
cent better than It was at this time
last year and that the northern buy
ers will find that country an attrac-
tive field for their operations for
the spring movement OF cattle. The
future conditions which largely de-
Jermine this branch OF the cattle
trade will be commercially known
by the middle OF April when the
Panhandle Livestock association {
holds its annual meeting in ANA
rillo, where during the past few I
years the bulk of these bona fide {
cattle trades are consummated. BY I
that time the conditions which are (
now in the future will be fully as {
sured and trades will he made ac- s
4
Defends Santa Fe Service. 4
"The published remarks about v
tonnage time service, and similar
matters. do not apply, as above b
stated, to the Pecos Valley lines, G
from the fact that we have no dead n