The live-stock interests of the State were centring in the
coming cattle convention, which would be held at Fort Worth in
February. At this meeting heavy trading was anticipated for present
and future delivery, and any sales effected would establish prices
for the coming spring. From the number of Northern buyers that were
in Texas, and others expected at the convention, Edwards suggested
buying, before the meeting, at least half the requirements for our
beef ranch and trail cattle. Major Hunter and I both fell in with
the idea of our segundo, and we scattered to our old haunts under
agreement to report at Fort Worth for the meeting of the clans. I
spent two weeks among my ranchmen friends on the headwaters of the
Frio and Nueces rivers, and while they were fully awake to the
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