The St. Johns herald., 1886-05-13

that he had murdered deputy
 sheriff at Salida, Colorado, after
 which he had succeeded in making
 his escape, first into the Indian Ter ritory, thence into Texas, and final
 ly into New Mexico. Swearinger
 will be remembered as a witness
 who figured conspicuously in the
 Pridemore trial. There are few
 more of the same stripe who could
 equally we'll be spared, and whose
 time will no doubt come in the near
 future The reign of bad men in
 New Mexico has about come to an
 end.
 Stock Grower: It is learned in
 regard to Marquis de Mores that
 his company has a capital stock of $2,000,000, of which $1 100000 is
 preferred common stock and the
 same amount common, which was
 subscribed by De Mores and Baron
 Von Hoffman, they putting into the
 new organization their Medora
 plant and cold storage along the
 line of the Northern Pacific, and
 other property at valuation of
 $500,000. A river frontage of eleven
 miles on the Little Missouri is also included in this property. The Marquis will arrange with Montana stockmen to furnish him with 100 cattle per day for slaughtering or shipping in refrigerator cars to the retail butcher shops of New York city. He will build immense feed ing sheds, fatten his own stock and take for fattening purposes stock from other cattlemen. charging tng1EIL tHfsaxs five. cents day for lausllag lisE Haebess oRashe.ander- taking fise SataiaiN slsl 5s's q ilehse cattle can be fattened froh4tbMley and distillery mush and refuse in two years where it will require five on the ranges. This feed will be shipped from Milwaukee for the present, but an immense distillery will be built at Medora immediate ly to utilize Montana barley. Stock men will turn cattle into the feed- ing sheds of the company and re- ceive certificates that can be used as bankable paper, on which money can be borrowed, something which cannot now be done without giving chattel mortgages on the stock,
 c. B. Eddy, President of the Lincoln County, New Mexico, Stock Growers Association in his annual address says: One of the greatest dangers which threaten our stock interests to-day, the evidence of which can be observed in some To- calities already. is the overstocking or crowding of our ranges. 1 think we have no enemies to fear but our selves in this matter, outsiders will hardly consider it profitable to bring stock to the Pecos valley now with the amount of cattle already here. I assure you it is none too soon for us to discuss the best methods for reducing our stocks, and it takes no prophet to foresee the result in the near future unless are taken to prevent the increase. Last fall we had an un- usually abundant supply of grass, our winter mild and open, to-day the grass is all gone for long dis tance from water cattle very thin and on some ranges dying. This is and with stockmen re- quires no explanation. It is the history of nearly all cattle coun- tries that the stocking of ranges continues until checked by a great loss or "die off" It may be profit able in our case, to learn by expe- rience, and by prompt and energet- ic action avert this calamity, which 1 warn you is surely coming. l think you would confer kindness on the drovers, some of whom may be ignorant of the facts, who pro- pose driving up the Pecos this spring, by publishing true account and description of the condition of the ranges over which they must