The St. Johns herald., 1886-06-24
ming off stock, would naturally lead one to believe that this is true.

Wilcox Stockman: Dr. R. B Tripp, of Graham Mountains, wa. in town this week to attend tht
 meeting of the Executive Commit
 tee of the Southeastern Assoeia.
 ton. The Doctor says that on June
 1st, while riding the range, he dis
 covered two of his young COWS
 which had just been killed by In
 dians. the animals being still warm
 The hostiles had taken only part of the carcasses of each. Tripp &
 Underwood have been constant losers of stock by Indians for sev- eral years, and the Doctor has about come to the conclusion that it is an unproftable business to raise cattle to be slaughtered by these wards of the Government.
 Colorado Live Stock Record l: Charles B. Eddy, of the Eddy-Bis- sell Company, of Seven Rivers, New Mexico, was in the city this week. He says the Pecos river is swollen by melting snow, and as it is q deep and rapid stream, it proves very destructive to weak cattle en- tering it to drink. They are swept in by the current and carried down the rver. and it is possible to count 100 carcasses per hour floating down the stream. For six or eight miles back from the river there is no grass, and scarcely any on the ranges in that part of the country, and unless there are rains very soon more serious loss will be heard of.
 Montana Husbandman: The roundup throughout eastern Mon tana is progressing splendidly; the grass is fair and the dry weather enables the cowboys to work stead fly. The weather Is very hot and the corrals are dusty which is very dusty which makes it hard on all hands, both man and beast. The calf crop is very large-the largest that has been known for several years, and thls adds materially to the fatigue of each days work. The COW camps are lively throughout notwithstanding the increased labor and the large cali crop makes own CTS smile despite the prospect of short grass season.
 Hoof and Horn The manner in which cattle are being crowded into the counties of Yavapai and Apache leave but little room for doubt that no distant day will see as heavy losses from drouth and lack of feed | as New Mexico is now experiencing. The last five years have been sea- sons of unusually abundant water, and during that time water holes and running streams have been de veloped in places where the absence of such water supplies were before that the chief peculiarity of the country. With a dry season such as was experienced in 1879, We doubt whether the herds at present | in both counties could survive the drouth with less loss than twenty five per cent of their total number.
 Exchange : Pat Maloney, who has a ranch at the southwest end of the Huachucas, arrived in camp this afternoon, and states that while passing through Charleston a mes senger arrived from Jimmy Carr's horse ranch, on the west side of the Huachucas, at the mouth of Hayes and Tanners pass, with the news that the Apaches jumped the ranch and killed a man. They also, it is thought, ran off some stock. There were two men named Malone and Cole in charge of the stock, and the report would indicate it was one of two, but which is not known, The asked for assistance and it is stated a party was made up to go to the scene of the massacre.
 Hoof and Horn: The reports at present received from every portion of the Territory confirms the pre- dictions of the best informed stock men. in regard tothe unprecedented