The St. Johns herald., 1886-04-29
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Items of Interest to StOckmen. Gath
 cred from Reliable Sources.

than they used to do.
 Phoenix Herald: Cattlemen are making calculations on large ship ments out of the territory this year.
 Exchange: During March 14,17f, car loads of stock were received at Chicago being an average of 545 cars per day.
 Exchange: Cattlemen i'll Con gales county. Texas. are selling their yearling steers at $7: and twos at SIP, in small punches.
 Billings (Mont.) Gazette: A car of thoroughbred horses from the states, passed through Billings last night, consigLed to the Moreland Cattle Company, at Moreland.
 Exchange: From the amount of barbed wire that is daily 5eing sold in Western Texas it looks as though another year would find cattle in that section entirely fenced in.
 Las Vegas Optic: The Shorthorn Cattle Company sold 250 head of high-grade Shorthorn bulls to the 1 New Mexico Land and Cattle Com panv; consideration, $46 per head.
 Exchange: It is claimed that from four to five million dollars are lost annually in this country from the branding of cattle, and that out of this the Chicago market alone ! loses two millions.
 Exchange: The Texas drive fol 1886 promises to be little over the average, aggregating some 300, ! GOO head. The largest proportion of these will go to Montana and other northwest ranges.
 Exchange: The largest barn il the world is probably that of the Union Cattle Company of Chey ennc, near Omaha. It covers fiv' acres cost $125,OO0, and accommo dates 3, ,75O head of cattle.
 Exchange: In 1880 the ship ments of live cattle from Chicago to New York reached 416,204 tons against 3O.7O5 tons of dressed beef Tn 1885 the figures were: Cattle 2S1,022 tons; dressed beef, 231 ,63- tons.
 Exchange The number of Texan and Indian cattle received in Chi cago last year was 29S,1SS head against 35S,374 in 1881. From tn Northwest the receipts of rang cattle last year were about 30,OO less than in 1884.
 Denver Field and Farm: Tn Gcbhard Cattle Company of thi city. with ranch located on th GiIa, near Duncan, Arizona, has jus bought $500 head of stock cattl at Valentine, Texas, and will 500 start them on the drive. - Breckenridge Texan: Tom PoV CTS was recently convicted of the A of cattle in Ellis county and SCI y fenced to the pcnitentiary for tW
 years. He has made appIicatio
 to the Governor through his couI
 sel, Judge Wm. NeaIe, for pardo
 Miles City (Mont.) Reporter ch The Home Land and Cattle Cor we panv recently bought of Dooley
 Kukman from 4,000 to 5000, the
 entire brand of cattle grazing Mulheur county. Oregon. The prl N paid was $23.50 per head with u : calves thrown in.
 ~ Texas Live Stock Journal: Pug
 lev & Stearns, whose ranch is ne
 Hugo, Colorado. will start for [ " trail with 5000 head of cattle abO - the 25th inst. The drive will lea -ol; PaIo Pinto intwo divisions of abo Of
 er- 5000 each and seven days apa .ct- |, sss, Mir. Stearms resides in Dallas a.
 Pugsley in Colorado.
 Silver City Sentinel: J. F. N K, son has purchased the Burro spril
 Seep springs and Riehl's ranch IA which he proposes to stock heav
 with cattle Mir Wilson left
 Saturday for his home in Ohio q EE JN IN JIy.I-o. l,;c ,,o,ob how of n rt