The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-07-31
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United States Consul Sutton, in n re-
cent and elaborate report dated Malta
moras, April ID, lss3, says of Northern
McNiCO:
"Roughly speaking, a line drawn from
GunYiuaS, ON the Gulf Of California, to
Tampico, on the Gulf of Mexico, repre-
Scnts the chief cattle range of Northern
Mexico. From this enormous territory
deduct one-third for mountains, deserts
and tilluble land, and the remaining
two-thirds is grazing land. over all
this territory, in every extreme Of ell
mate, from the thin cold air of the high
plateau to tho,low, hot lands ofthe coast OF
Tamaulipas, range the hardy progenitors
of the Texas cattle-long-hOrncd large
buned, gaunt, immense beasts, they are
simply frames on which the sweet grass
es oi Kansas and the West will make fine
beef. Their greatest value, however, is
not for themselves alone. Descendants
of the fine stock brought from Spain by
the Spanish conqucrors, nature has
adapted them, through generations OF
neglect, to their wild life. They are har-
DIV; they are wild; and while their rating
as to class is low,yet the good blood of the
past generations is still there. AS | have
said, they themselves will make good
beef when iattened on the Western
plains. but crossed with the improved
bulls from the East or from Europe, one
or two crosses brings them far above
what the same would do for the ordinary
class of cattle in the United States. Not
only do they come up TO high grade OF
stock much more rapidly than the ordi-
nary American cattle, but they still re-
tain their great frames, the dark red
color of the meat and breed with great
rapidity. They are what the Western
stocknien admiringly call good rust
lers.' They stitl retain their wildness,
and hence do not stay talnely around
water holes, eating the short,poor grass,
as do the American stock, getting thin
and weak, to die in the first great Storm
They multiply rapidly, stay out in the
good grass and brush have large frames,
latten rapidly and make the best grass
fed beef That goes East. No wonder the
stochmen of our plains are anxious to
get them.
"This portion of Northern Mexico
Chihuahua, Cuanuila, Nueva Leon and
Tamaulipas and portions OF other
States. In this territory are, on a rea,
sonablc estimate and from the latest
data available, an area of 100000 square
miles and about million of inhabi-
tants. OF this territory probably two
thirds is suitable and more or less used
for the raising of cattle, horses, goats,
sheep and mules. | can only roughly
estimate the number of live animals in
this area. In Texas, with an area OF
81 900 square miles, there were in 1880
about 100000 such animals, divided as
follows: Neat cattle, 4,OO0,OOO; horses,
100000; mules and asses, $4,000; sheep,
2,500,GO0. In this portion OF Northern
Mexico, with an area of, say, 3OO,WO
square miles, there may be now some
thing like 6,5OOO0O animals, and which
| estimate as being divided about as
follows: Goats, 2,5OO,O0O; neat cattle,
5000 horses, l,0JO,OOO; sheep, l,OOO,-
600, and mules, JOO,OOO.
"iThe difficulty of obtaining reliable
statistics in Mexico makes itlimpossible
for me at this time to do more than give
the above rough estimate. hope, how
ever. during the year to OBTAIN some re-
liable data on this industry"
SOUTHERN MENICO.
Soon after COrtcz completed the con-
quest of Mexico he received from the
King of Spain grant of large estates
near the Isthmus of rehuantepec. On
his return from Spain to Mexico, III 1850,
says the historian, che imported large
numbers OF merino sheep and other cat
tie, which found abundant pastures III
tho country around Tehuantepec."
Three hundred and twenty years later,
or in lS50-jl, the same grazing facilities
were reported by Williams in his survey
Of the isthmuS. He says: 1.-THE immense
potrcros which border all the principal
streams on the northern division furnish
rich pastures of never-failing verdure
for numerous herds. During the short
season that these potreros are inundated
the cattle are driven to the more elevated
sayannas remote from the river margins.
The extensive tablelands in the central
portions of the isthmus, as we'll as the
plains bordering on the Pacific, also fur
nish abundance of excellent pasturaSe.
Indeed, the whole country seems pecu-
liarly well adapted to the raising of
horned cattle. With little care on the
part of their owners, they increase rap
markably sleek and well-favored ap-
pearance. Enjoying range of the
finest pastures in the world, they are
usually in good condition and make fair
beef.
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
Of this country a paper in the "Amer-.
lean Encyclopaedia" says, IAN idea OF
the cattle raising in eight of the Pro-
vinces (there being no returns from the
ing statistics Of tho farming stock in
1886" The totals of these detailed sta
tistics therein given are as follows:
Numbers.
Horned, cattle ................u ,725,O00
s esseS an" ''.............. or, 7l5,00O
Goats ........... .........'.....,:.. oii, ~,
These facts are accompanied by the
remark: "The sheep. al
though extremely numerous, are IKE
the goats and hogs, of an inferior breed"
II will be observed that the number OF
n this single Republic. is considerably
larger than in the whole United States
THE COMING INTERCHANGE.
Heretofore the commercial relations
between Spanish America and Europe
have been much more extensive than
N, 80, ,,-itl tho Irnitnd States. hut the