The St. Johns herald., 1886-06-10

charged on cattle driven across the border to feed. The Canadian ran gers are incensed against the do minion government for permitting the Montana owners this priv ilege, and they will petition the do minion to revoke the law granting such rights.
 Flagstaff Champion: Justice Cate, of Winslow, has been busy the past week trying parties from New Mexico for trespassing on the land sold to the Aztec Land and Cattle Company by the Atlantic X Pacific Railroad. Policarpio Ar milo and Santos Armijo have been convicted and sent to jail in de fault of the payment of a fifty dol lar fine. If both our cattle and home sheep men were as active in ridding the country of these New Mexico sheep, a better feeling would exist between our home stockmen who represent the different stock interests. These wandering herds not only eat out and ruin the range of our cattlemen, but eat out the range that of right belongs to our own citizens who are engaged in raising sheep.
 La Junta (Col.) Tribune: Re ports from the range that cattle are still dying. The mortality is con- fined chiefly to COWS and heifers in the act of calving. It is generally conceded, in this locality at least, that over fifty per cent of the na- tive cattle that have perished this spring were COWS and heifers heavy with calf. This fact will impress upon the minds of many stock men the danger incurred by allow ing their COWS to come in too early. This is matter difficult to control upon the range, but those who have their cattle under herd during the summer can easily determine the time when their COWS shall begin to calve. Unless the breeder has feed sufficient to maintain his COWS in good condition until grass comes, he had better keep his bulls from the herd until the first of August or even September. Grass fed COWS coming in during the spring months should they survive the crisis of calving, are apt to succumb to weakness brought on by nourishing the calf and aggravated by thepur- gative effect of the new grass.
 Cheyenne Journal: It is a little early to make figures for the fall beef market, but present indica- tions point to better prices for grass fattened steers than were received last year. Without radical change in the south, and that very soon, there will be a great falling off in the number of beef cattle from Texas during the summer months. Over a large portion of that state a severe drouth is prevailing, and the cattle are not putting on flesh as usual. It so happens that the re- zion where the drouth prevails is the portion of the state where the most nutritious grass is usually to be found and from whence comes the largest and fattest beeves. This shortage from the south will un- doubtedly tend to stiffen prices. Another feature to be reckOned on is the greatly increased number of our extensive northern ranchmen who are making arrangements to feed in the corn belt this fall. Pro- bably twenty thousand range steers will be shipped direct to feeding pens or yards without going onto the Chicago or other markets. There is nothing to particularly en- courage, or build up hope, but the tendency seems in the direction of better prices for good cattle. Let there be only ripe ones sent to mar ket and the usual glut will be avoided.
 A Dallas. Texas, dispatch of the oOt1 III ,o,,c D Eouotto NNi1cOn