Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-05-13

A Few Items and suggestions o.
Interest 20 Cattlemen.

Interest 30 Cattlemen
The aggregate number of cattle in
Texas is decreasing. Agriculture is slow
ly but steadily limiting the area of the
range.
The highest and best favored and most
wholesome beef can only be produced by
a variety OF food which will main
tain the digestion and assimilation Cd
the animal in the most perfect condition.
One unchanged course of food, though
ever SO nutritious and healthful, If pur-
sued day after day, without variation,
like clearinghouse grub to man, may
give flesh, but it will not be OF the most
perfect quality.
It is q mistake to suppose that the pres
emit high price of beef is the result OF
| powerful trade combinations controlling
| the beef market. II is the simple result
| Of the great law OF compensation between
| supply and demand. The diminution OF
the hog industry, caused by the better
| market for corn, which ia consumed IN
the glucose factories, the diminution in
| the worlds fish and sea shell crops, and the
modern facilities for shipping meats
| abroad have all contributed to augment
ing the price Of beef.
All over the world the population is in
crossing. In all agricultural parts the
number Of cattle are decreasing; hence
the price OF beef is being steadily en-
HANGED in proportion to the unerring law
| Of supply and demand.
The question how to prevent the over
stocking Of the ranges is one of the most
perplexing now engaging the best minds OF
cattlemen all over the range country. If
allowed to go on it may apparently regu-
late itself by an increased death rate, 1t is
true, but overlooking will ruin the pas
ture and destroy the grazing on the open
range. The cattle craze will continue 30
long as the traditions Of present and past
profits are remembered and there are not
numerous and glazing instances of losses
in the industry. In the meantime adven-
turers will rush upon the ranges blindlyland
lose their investments, and at the same
time ruin the experienced, sensible, work
ing csttlemen by the destruction OF their
source Of profit, the free grass.
The present occupants Of the range have
| certain rights which should be protected.
II the Government furnishes free grass and
| herd owner, it ought to protect him in it.
l IL bbO A1h6O Al obOShO4 ~ VI 6As6sA6
| the Government should prevent the intro
| duction Of more cattle and limit the in
crease of present occupants to the number
| OF cattle sold of. Districts should be es-
tablished and inspectors should be re-
quired to see that only q certain limited
number of cattle are grszed on given areas.
Gen. Brisbin. in q letter to the Helena
montana Herald, says: "There is
greater danger to the cattlemen than the
Jumper, and that is the encroachment OF
foreign capital" He declares further that
the English will soon own halt of all the
herds west of the Mississippi river. From
these vast holdings neither the Govern
ment nor people of the United States derive
one cent In return for the free grass which
insures the large dividends which go to
Europe to reimburse the outlay. These
are the parties who want to lease and then
fence the whole range country and absorb
and ~monopolize the entire cattle industry.