The Arizona champion., 1888-09-22
STOCK NOTES.
Condensed News. Items of Interest
 to Stockmen.

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 Nearly two hundred trotters and pacors have dropped into the 2:30 list this season already.
 The shipments of beef cattle from along the line of the Atlantic and Pacific are continuing to in crease.
 Texas fever is dsciminating the herds belonging to settlers on the North Fork, in the eastern part of Greer county, Texas.
 George Rainsford, the well known horse raiser at Cheyenne, W. T., a few days ago, lost eighteen blooded horses by lightning, valued at s2O, 900.
 One thousand mutton sheep sup | ply the Denver meat eaters but a single week. 1t will be fair to re- mark that considerable number of these are spring lambs.
 There is marked decrease in the number of beef cattle being sent to the Southern California market and stockmen are again looking up prices in Kansas City.
 Arnold & Truman ship a carload of cavalry horses to San Francisco to-day. Northern Nevada and southeastern Oregon produce the best cavalry horses of any place in the United States.--Winnemucca (Nev.) Silver State,
 The rainfall in this vicinity has been insufficient to produce a new gr,wth of grass, and the range in many places is almost bare. How ever, the present condition of cattle is good, and stockmen are of the opinion that they will Winter faily well.---Globe Silver Belt.
 Last year at this time the oil works here had every pound of meal engaged for the season, while this year they have not sold pound. The prospects for winter grass are too good for cottonseed meal, Texas Livestock Journal.
 One of the latest phenomena in Kentucky is lilly that will not be two years old until fall, sired by Red Wilkes, out of the dam of Ellerslie Wilkes, which recently paced half a mile in l;l9. She is owned by A, A. Kitzmiller of Lexington.
 Eighteen cavalry horses from St. Louis, destined for San Carlos, were received here Monday. They were fine lot of animals, and are the first consignment of one hun dred and twenty-five to be received for distribution to San Carlos and Forts Grant and Thomas.---S. w. Stock Grower.
 Many stockmen of northern Arizona are already beginning to discuss the benefits of securing alfalfa ranges in the Salt River valley for the purpose of fattening their surplus beef steers during the winter in order to realize all they can from an early spring market Baton (N, M.) Range,
 The value of the present rains to the ranches and ranges of the Ter ritory can hardly be estimated, and the alternative which was staring the cattlemen in the face, of either removing their stock from the ranges or allowing them to starve, has been removed, and they are corespondingiy happy and cheerful. las Vegas Optic,
 Cowboys southeast of Cheyenne have recently had an exciting time with dog-wolves. The savage beasts killed a number of cattle which induced the boys to make an organized raid upon them. A band of twenty-five was encountered, out of which thirteen were shot. Tho wolves fought with desperate fury. Stock Growers Mont.) Journal. Build up the horse interests in your neighborhood by breeding up your own horses, Do your part well and others will fall into line. It need take but few years to make a reputation for any district as great horse centre. No vicin. ity in which good horses are raised will go unnoticed by buyers, Con Kohrs, a Montana cattle man, has been here for several days, He has purchased and shipped to his range between 5000 and 4,0O0 Idaho cattle. Cattlemen begin to wear smiling faces. Prices are better than for years--and the move is still upward-Mountain Home { (Idaho) Bulletin.
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 The Northwest Cattle Go, has just completed the sale to the cast en buyers now here 400 head of shipping steers, The prics is un' derstood to have been S55 a head. The cattle are said to be an excep tionally fine lot. They will be shipped in a few weeks to Mon kra,l Can.J., r.l,,o,., /All,..xo'