The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-02-18

whose cattle may be destroyed by fully
authorized agents, in efforts to arrest the
progress of the disease.
Col. r. G. Head, of Trinidad, who was
chosen to be permanent chairman of the
International Range Cattle and Horse
Growers association at Denver, is but SO
years of age, and has been on the trail
ever since he was large enough to mount
horse. For four years he has been gen.
eral manager of the Prairie Cattle com
pany on $4,000 salary. He is estimated
to be worth 100000 and will probably
make his headquarters in Denver.
Ell Paso (Te1.) journal: Early this
month one of the best kRown and wealth.
lest stock owners in the state of Chihua-
hua, Sr. Don Pedro Zuloaga, died. He
was pure Castilian and reached the ad
vanced age of SO years. He was the pos
SCISSOR of a magnificent ranch, located
about seventy five miles west of the city
of Chihuahua, on which range about 49,
600 head of cattle and about as many or
more sheep. His ranch and stock are
estimated to be worth 100000.
Prescott, "a. T), Hoof and Horn:
Northern New Mexico is covered with
snow, and the unusually cold weather of
the past eight days has been rough on
range stock. No reports of losses have
come in yet, and it is not likely that the
loss in this section will be serious, unless
the present severe weather should con-
tinue for ten days more. In southern
New Mexico and Arizona the weather,
though cold, is not severe, and the plains
are free from snow except near the noun
tain range.
Miles City Reporter: 1t is rumored
around town that the Rea
and the Concord Cattle companies will
consolidate and become one and the same
firm. The Rea Cattle company first To-
Gated their range in this country during
the past year, and purchased their cattle
from Frank Wyatt, of Oregon. Mr.. Il. Fl.
Cowles, of the Concord cattle company, was
instrumental in making the deal, and for
this reason it would not be surprising il
the rumor should prove to be true.
Chotau (Mont.) Calumet: In converse
ton with one of our leading stockmen we
were informed that cattle on the ranges
III this section were, as a general thing,
in better condition now than they have
been at this season of the year during the
past eight years. Cattlemen may well fell
jubilant now, because no matter how Sc
we're the winter may be from this time
until spring none but old stock will be af-
fected by very severe weather. This will
also be gratifying news to the cattle kings
who are enjoying the comforts of civiliza-
| tinp in tha aaSt and uhpSa pottla roam, INV
thousands upon our prairles.
Pueblo (Col.) Review: The balmy winds
and warm sunshine of the past few days
have served greatly to relieve the anxiety
among cattlemen with reference to cattle
ON the range; the snow is about all zone
and water can be had in abundance. So
that if cattle are as near starving as they
were reported to be, there is nothing to
hinder them from rustling as heretofore,
and in few days becoming themselves
again. While the storm may have been a
drawback in causing the loss of few cat
| tie, it will in the end be great benefit by
bringing an abundance of early grass, of
which there was great lack last spring
Shoshone Idaho) Journal: Balantine &
Eastman Bros. shipped train of winter,
fed cattle on January %, from Caldwell to
Chicago, the first shipment in the winter
month over the Oregon Short line to east
ern markets. This experiment of feed
ing clover and tame hay to fatten beef
| for Chicago for the spring or winter mar
ket is new one in Idaho, but the results
appear to be satisfactory to those practi'
cal men who intend to establish the feed
ing on larger and more extensive scale
This train consisted of eighteen car
loads, and the average time made on the
Idaho division was from twenty-five to
thirty miles per hour.
V1N1rA, 1. r., February 6.-The aged in
habitants recollect one other snow storm
as severe as that which visited us this
week, and that was i'll January, 1858, and
at that time the snow was fully two feet
deep on level, and lay upon the ground
six weeks. The thermometer ranged
from zero to % below most of the time
The winter stock range was then good, and
consisted of wild oats and rice, which
with the cane brakes, made everything as
favorable as possible for the cattle, but
still the loss was tremendous. The Usage
Indians lost between 1000 and 5000
ponies, and all the hogs in the country
were destroyed. This year the range il
poor and present indications are that the
| loss is immense.
HAROLD, Tex, February Judge G
A. Brown, of Clarendon, arrived here to-
day from his ranch in the upper Panhan
die. He reports losses of cattle as very
great throughout the Panhandle country
The recent storm, which extended over
the entire northern cattle ranges, proved
even more disastrous than the January
storm. The mortality among stock was
not confined to the through or the south
ern cattle, but is equally as serious with
native herds Immediately south of tine
Canadian river. The cattle for stretch
of hundred miles difted against the
drift-fences along that side of the river
and persisted in countless numbers. These
drift-fences are generally on top of the
plains, exposed to the winds. When once
the cattle reach these fences with their
backs toward the piercing winds, they
stand six and ten deep in rows rs far as
the eye can reach. and thus fall down and
perish. 1t will be several weeks before
anything like an acc urate estimate OF the
loss can be given, as each ranch must be
visited; but Judge Brown says the oldest
ranchmen agree that the winter has beer
the most disastrous to stock ever expert