Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1886-07-10

wholesale marketing Of yearling cat
tie and skeleton steers, and fair prices
are now demanded. ..
Red Carter, cowboy working for
fine Green Mountain Land & Cattle
Co., in Custer county, Montana, per.
formed the remarkable feat Of lassoing
mountarn hon.
The resent killing of 1900 sheep by
hail in Lincoln county, N. NJ II con-
frmed. Three herders are said 10
have suffered death from the chunks
of ice which fell, some of them twelve
inches in length and one to three inch
es otherwise.
The price Of cattle entering Fort
Worth, Texas, from ranges intthree or
four counties each way, can be quoted
&t So for yearlings, Si4 for two-year
Odds and SIS for three-year-old steers;
heifers are fraction lower.~--South,
Western Stoekman,
During the last roundup, Frank
Robertson, of the Rosebud, in Mon
tana, branded 225 calves in one day,
the largest branding, IN the same
length Of time, which has ever been
done by an outfit in that country
Northwestern Live Stock journal.
1t is said that the Argentine Repub-
lie has available for Strengthening pur-
poses 100000 cattle and 100000
sheep. Serious competition in the
European markets is apprehended
from this source. Her shipments in
1885 We're 1920 tons, valued at near
ly $2,000,000. She can furnish 10000
tons of meat weekly, or an annual
supply worth S5O,OOO,O OO.-Southwest-
ern Stockman.
Col. S. P. Cunningham, of the U. s.
Bureau of Animal Industry is at Trail
City, examining the herds passing
through. His object is to get facts
which will fully establish the habitat
of the various cattle diseases and thus
have the data from which to legislate
to prevent their spreading.
81 will never try to winter stock in
a valley" SAID large stOOkman to us
the other day. "Why not?" we asked.
Because when the wind sucks through
the valleys it is worse than on the
hill top. When it is still it is four or
FIVE degrees colder in the valley.
want a heavy grove on the highest
point and plenty of ravines where my
cattle can shift from one to another"
There is good sense in that saying
Int. Live Stock journal.
He Myles returned the first of the
week from an extended visit to his
range ON the Upper Penasco, Lincoln
County, N. NJ. The first rain came in
the nick of time to prevent any serious
loss, and the late rains have put
everything in good shape. There is
fine grass six inches high, and cattle
are improving daily. There is gener,
ally better feeling among the cattle,
men of that section.-Int. Live Stcrk
Journal.
Several herds of cattle, which were
being driven up the Pe6os river from
Texas, bound for points in the North
and Arizona, have been turned loose
near Fort Sumner, being in such poor
condition that they could no longer
travel. There is much indignation
expressed by the cattlemen Of that see
ton at this outrageous imposition, and
it is quite possible the herd-owners
will find it quite difficult to gather all
their cattle again, as they viii have tc
make their round-ups unassisted By
the local stockmen. To pursue such
a course will be eminently proper OF
the part Of tire New Mexico ranchmen
as the owners Of the intruding herdl
had all received due notice that the
condition Of the Pecos country woull
not admit Of the passage Of herds over
the old trails, and in taking the same
they would do so at the risk of great
losS.-Las Vegas Stock Grower.
On some Of The Montana ranges
there was sufficient rainfall to insure
good winter grazing, and to ALLOW
stockmen a chance to put up hay
upon which to feed ponies in the win,
ter. As to the question Of hay fol
winter use, unless we have speedy and
abundant rains, perhaps not one
ranch in fifty viii be able to put uT
hay at all, and the question is how
will the saddle horses DO fed in win
ter? Each succeeding year the hay
crop has been growing less abundant
and next winter, as the old saying is
"hay will be hay" IN Montana.
Beeyes are putting on tallow now
and by the 18th Of July win com
mence to go to the market and viii !,
constantly going until late in the fan
The recent rains have made watel
more plentiful and feed much better