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

the Ocate has had bountiful rains and is now well supplied with rich grass and the stockmen in that re. zion are jubilant and wear a grin so wide you can see their boot he els
 Chicago Breeders Gazette: Sev- eral thousand distillery cattle have been received during the last fort night, all of which have made plenty of money. The steers sold principally at $5a$5. 50 and the bulls largely at $3a$3.5O, while there were sales of COWS at $3.50a$4 .25. Morris, Waixel and Greenbaum were the principal owners, and dressed-beef men the almost exclu- -sive buyers.
 Exchange: Meyer Half says that he has forever quit selling cattle to Fine Ernest, and all owing to the fact that Fine will persist in taking his blanket along when he goes out to classify the herd, so that he can lie down and take a nap while the seller is cutting out long yearlings for two-year-olds. The saying goes in Colorado now that one must sleep with Ernest before a trade in Texas stock can be closed.
 Exchange: It is given out that among the reasons for the decline in the cattle business, is the ad- vance in the value of land. The tiller of the soil is encroaching more and more every year, and as we have no new territory in which to open ranges, the cost of raising beef has increased. Foreign com petition is being felt in our market by low prices. South America alone has shipped beef in refrigerators amounting to four million head. Pioneer Journal On account of Nry weather the springs are gener- aRy the first to give out, and stock is then forced to go long distances for water. In a dry season the well is almost the last thing to dry up, although the running streams often fail. It is important then to stock men to prepare artificial means of furnishing his cattle with water and thus prevent their herds the neces- sity of travelling long distances, and we therefore say dig wells where nature has failed to give wa ter on the surface.
 Dallas News: J. T. Simpson re- turned from Shackelford county yesterday. He reports Sh&ckelford dry as the traditional powder house and cattlemen are very much dis couraged-many of them making preparations to remove their herds to Arizona, for which purpose sev- eral herds are being combined, so as to reduce the cost of the drive. So far no cattle have died, but they are in thin order and not in condi- ton to stand a very much longer dry spell. Several herds will be started for Arizona on Monday next.
 Chicago Breeders Gazette: It is now tolerably we'll settled that we are to see moderate receipts of fat cattle for the next six or eight weeks. This conclusion is war ranted by the fact that the advance of more than fifty cents per hun dred pounds, which prices have un- dergone since the end of April, has failed to call out any important in crease in our supplies. Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas are feeding fewer cattle than at this time last year, and despite the les sened consumption of beef conse- cuent upon the hard times, it is ex- pected that the demand will equal the supply even at higher prices than now prevail.
 Miles City, Montana, dispatch Many of the most extensive stock growers of this territory are driv- ing large punches of cattle across the border and ranging them on the Nortbuact tarritOrV ranOnc The