The St. Johns herald., 1886-06-10
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Items of Interest to St0ckmen, Gath.
 cred from Reliable Sources.

SOcorro Bullion: The cattlemen of Sierra County held a meeting on the 20th instant at Cuchillo Negro and arranged local cattle associa- ton.
 Socorro Bullion: All cattle west of Socorro are reported as doing well, and no losses as yet from the extremely dry weather now prevail ing over the entire southwest.
 Tucson Star: The stock ship ping business is increasing rapidly on the Southern Pacific Railroad During the next thirty days from three to four hundred cars of cattle will be shipped from this county.
 Exchange: Col. c. c. Slaughter of Dallas, Texas, will in a few days deliver to the Capitol Syndicate 10000 head of one and two-year- old cattle, half the number steers and half heifers. The price he is to receive is $140,00O cash.
 Black Range: A company of rangers, composed chiefly of stock men has been organized at Tucson, Arizona, for the purpose of pro- tecting the settlers from Indians and rustlers. Such an organization would be agreeable in this section.
 Lincoln (N. M ) Independen: J. w. Phillips plead guilty on Wednes- day to the theft of a horse, and the court in consideration of his youth (19 years) sentenced him to one years confinement in the territo- rial prisoner.
 Exchange: Droves of stock are grazing on alfalfa fields between La Junta and Pueblo, Colorado, from pure necessity. The insufficiency of the ranges convince stockmen that to the agriculturist they will have eventually to appeal, or give up the ship.
 Wilcox Stockman: A special train of seventeen cars, loaded with 400 beef steers belonging to Pusch & Zallawager and Pedro Charelan, of Pima county, passed through Wilcox yesterday, en route to the Kansas City market. Geo. Pusch was in charge of the animals.
 Exchange: On account of the large number of cattle dying in and around the water sources sup plying Fort Stanton, New Mexico, badly endangering public health, the commander at the post has or dered sixty miles of barbed wire to fence in the reservation.
 Silver City Enterprise: Col. Sam Carpenter, one of the big hearted cattle kings of Grant county, was in the city this week from his Fort Cummings ranch. Sam reports that his stock, although thin, are doing well. Quite a number of the heifers imported from Kansas this spring are dropping calves.
 Socorro Bullion: The Gila Cat tie Company have 300 head of fine beeves awaiting shipment at Mag dalena. Taylor Maulding, mana ger of the company, and Wm. J Wolfe of the Denver Packing Com pany, went out Wednesday to ex. anime the stock, and the result vii probably be a shipment to Denver
 Las Vegas Optic: On account o- dry weather owners of sheep fol fifty miles around Anton Chico with few exceptions, have lost near ly half of their focks since Nov ember and that lambing will not exceed fifteen per cent. Cattle are also dying from eating the loco weed.
 Silver City Enterprise Capt. E H. Trerise, whose cattle range is or the upper Mimbres, was in the city this week. He states that the TO deo in his vicinity this spring vii be an important one, as 1t has beer more than a year since any brand ing was done, owing to the Indian