The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-09

become extinct. and stf.r orders we're
i.Hutd iur lhtir pfDofVulIuu Under iin
pDnnl protection they have multiplied ~
about GUn head, md q hunt was recently
permitted near liItluslnC. INo uufprhs
were killed md sent st. pUcrsburE
n Us reported that this rs the HryCfC.i win.
fer I'm tdibo since isiI. 'rhc stock Is ulIcr.
iug very much for want Of food and II Is
feared that when the thuw comes that many
Of them will stick In the mud and die, ~
they will not have sufficient strength TO cN-
triCatC themselves.
We clip the following from the Rcd River
Chronicle, published ut san Lorenzo, New
Mexico.
Never before IN the history of New Mex
leo have there been so many transfers of
ranges and stock animals at good prices as
Mt present There are two potent reasons
for that. In the first place, the prices OF
cattle have reached such a maximum that
many stoCkmen think it good investment
10 sell their ranch and animals ut present
good prices, and engage in something else
where they can enjoy the benefits OF civill-
Zation at a ncighboring town, by giving
thcr wives an opportunity to see the world
in company, and allow their children to go
to school. The other reason Is that mon
eyed men see good opportunity TO make
money "hand over fist by buying up
small ranches and engaging in cattleraising
on the wholesale. Both sides are justified
in their action. The frontiersman who
has commenced some years ago on
small scale, "Ioughing it" as they call it,
to make both ends meet after having in
creased his herd to such a number to live
now pretty comfortably ON the income, en-
tcrtains fears that the present high prices
will not last, and therefore jumps at the
offer to sell at good figures.
\ Chicago paper says fewer cattle are to
be driven from the northwest and from
Texas than last year, principally owing to
tue stiff priCcs>asked by ranchmen, though
there are reports OF scarcity of range cattle
from many sections. Whether ranchmcn
will find holding their cattle at such stiff
prices the best policy or not remains to be
seen. Within the past eighteen months
there has been an advance Of % to 80 per
cent in some localities in the west. Buy
ers have been, and are still very eager TO
purchase at the prices current, but it is Il
question whether a much further advance
will not lessen the demand for range
stock. Current prices are undeniably very
profitable, and it would scarcely be the
best thing for the greatest number for
ranChmen to crowd prices to an unhealthy
height
The Drovcrs' Journal says: A Texas
man ventures the opinion that the day will
come when sheep will be driven from the
state of Kansas and Colorado, and shipped
into market from there as cattle are. As it
stands, Texas people cannot ship sheep UNI
less there is an uncommonly wide margin
between cost and selling price, because it
costs the railroads nearly as much to han
die 100 head in a single-deck car as it would
to haul POO in double decks, and, of course,
they charge as much, which is
rough on shippers, as they don't, be-
gin to get as much for one as for two hum
dred, though if Texas hockmasters made
they would get very nearly double as much
more for sheep as they do. But, so long as
the railroads in the southwest refuse to fur
nish double-deck cars, so long will the
sheep trade be in cramped, unhealthy
state.
a wealthy farmer of Louisa county, Iowa,
has purchased il 600 acres Of land near San
Antonio, Texas, and will raise young cattle
there and bring them to his Louisa county
farms to be finished up for market. 1t is IA
big scheme.
The Humane Live Stock Feeding COM
pany has completed negotiations to erect Il
cattle restaurant in Fort Wayne, TO cost
$4,000.
Kansas ranks as the eleventh state of the
union in the value of her live stock.
WyOming's cattle interests never looked
better than at the present time.
1t is expected that colony from Iowa
will settle In Montana this summer and go
to stock-raising.
Nineteen carloads of Dakota county cat
tie of the finest quality, were a few days
since started tor Chicago. The prices paid
were good; aggregating for the lot about
$4,000.
A bill has been presented to the New Mex
can legislature, and passed, providing for
ne taxation of stock from other states
9r territories caught grazing in New
IaElro.
Inere are Owned within a radius of
twenty miles of Heppner, w. r., over 2OO,-
600 sheep. 1t is safe to assume that these
will average at least six pounds O. wool
apiece, or 100000 pounds.
Some Illinois cattle recently sold in
Liverpool realized about $lSi per head. In
Chicago they would have sold for about
$40 per head at the time they were ship
ped for Liverpool. Taking the present cost
of landing cattle in Liverpool there would
seem a respectable margin for the shipper
at the price named above.
1t is conceded that the Berkshire pig will
average at six months old 100 pounds; at
nine months, go; at twelve months, 800; at
Is months, 40O and at twenty-four months
500. 1t will be seen that the best compare
tive weight is at twelve months and under
Pig raising is now an industry; the past
three months more were wanted than ever
before. Smooth, straight pigs of l25 to 100
lbs. will always find sale, and the prices
they bring are comparatively higher than
for hogs Of double the above weight. Just
to think, pigs bring from $500 to SO and
over per 100 lbs.
The Pittsburgh Stockman says that "the
sums of money now being invested in the
cattle business in the southwest are simply
enormous, If the sanguine stocknian of ten
years ago had forctold the live stock doings
of these days in that part Of the United
States, he would have been set down as de-
mentcd. fall the stories coming from that
quarter are to i've relied on. more cash is be
ing turned into new live stock enterprises
there than in any other district on the
globe"