The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-31

Markets. shipments, sales and Gen.
eraI Live stock Notes.

Markets. shipments, sales and Gen.
eraI Live stock Notes.
THE SOUTHERN DRIvE.-The OIin-
ion is held by men largely engaged in
cattle raising both in Texas and WyO-
ming that the drive from Texas north
ward in the next few years will show
a falling off in numbers. The quality
of cattle in Texas is not increasing
greatly. Some districts which a few
years & had large herds now have but
a few head. The aus of this diminu-
ton lies in the fact that the Texas
grass, no longer burned away yearly,
with the young brushwood, is now
choked by the continued growth of the
brush. There are of urse new ranges
now occupied which never before had
cattle on them, but there is some check
to the wonderful propagation of Texas
cattle. In Wyoming, more pounds of
flesh are put on growing Texas cattle
in a year, especially after the first year,
when they are being acclimated than
there Is in their native state. PrOpa-
cation, however, has not hitherto been
so rapid as in Texas. With the prospect
of a smaller drive from the south,
higher prices to be paid for yearlings,
and continued good markets in the
east, stock men will turn their atten-
ton to rearing calves in this Territory.
TUESDAYS SALES The following
sales at the Union Stock Yards, for
Tuesday are telegraphed by the Drover's
Journal =: Robinson sold for Marsh, 4
cars of half-bIeeds, averaging LILO lbs.
@S4.75; WI averaging 800 lbs. @S3.S0.
Wood sold for Human, 2 cars of Texas
cattle, averaging 975 ID. a. 1890.
Values weak, demand weak and market
10 cents lower.
Cattle growing is rated next to min
ing among the important industries of
Arizona.
j. w. johnson, a Texas stock raiser,
has a pasture of 100000 acres, sur
rounded by ninety tOns of wire.
Large tracts of grazing land with the
water course in Colorado, have been
enced, driving small cattlemen ont of
the business.
n. NJ. News and Press Great de |
mand for sheep in Socorro county
and New Mexico is furnishing large |
iocks to be driven to Texas. Last week
5000 head were sold to Texas men ut
prices ranging from 81 to 50. 80 each.
Kansas City Price Current There
seems to be a too close eulling of stock
by Western ranchmen, or, in other
worgs. they are sending too many in
ferior cattle to market. This will prove
rather damaging in the end. Good cat
tie will bring good prices at all times,
but inferior selections are fearfuny
sacrificed. Select carefully and send
forward only those in good condition.
At a recent meeting of the Southern
Colorado Stock Growers Association,
held in Pueblo, which wa a most in
teresting session, sixty-two new mem
bers were enrolled. The next meeting
will be held at the same place, October
eth.
Black Hills Times A small army of
cowboys filed into town yesterday after
noon. They were direct from Texas,
having come up with Driskill's herd.
Later in the evening they left for
Sturgis, where they we're paid. About
$4,000 were distributed among them.
Las Vegas Gazette The staked
plains are still the home of wild horses.
This week apartY of Mexicans returned
from a hunting trip on the plains bring
ing with them fifty head OF wild mus
tangs which they had captured. These
horses are a hardy, heet-footed breed,
which are easily tanned and not hard to
break. The average value, after being
broken, of these mustangs is forty
dollars.
The stock men of northern New
Mexico have organized themselves into
the northern New Mexico stock grow
ers association, similar in plan and OBJ
ject to Wyomings effective association.
Marsh and Cooper of Laramie City
contemplate the erection of a large
refrigerator establishment neal Laramie
City similar to the one erected by
Frewn II Co., at Sherman, with capa-
city for 5000 slaughtered cattle. They
will be frozen and kept in that conGi-
tion through a liberal use of ice.
And now the solnbre-hued prophet is
foretelllng a hard winter, $4.75 in to-
days live stock quotations is a far more
pleasant thing 20 contemplate.