The Arizona champion., 1888-10-20
STOCK NOTES.

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18th.
During the last "a years 2,40C
bulls and l,700 horses have beer
killed in bull fights in the City o.
Mexico.
Since January LIST, Chicago ex
ported to foreign countries, asid,
from Canada 7,203,385 pounds o.
dressed beef,
| The Missouri Florida Cattle Com
pany, of Deming, will send tc
Sedalia, Missouri, this fall, l,50C
head of steers which will be matur'
ed there on corn.
The New Mexico Territorial
Board Of Equalization has decided
to place the value of cattle, yearl.
ings included, at $40 per head, and
sheep at 81 per head.
d, Levy said yesterday, that J.
Q, Stephens, wholesale butcher of
Los Angeles, has purchased 1000
besves from Garland & Ross, at p
cents per pound, on the hoof,--
Journal Miner.
The new live stock rates on
Chicago roads from Missouri points
went into effect Wednesday. For
cattle, hogs and sheep the rate from
Omaha is 274 cents per 100
pounds.
The Wyoming brand inspe; tors
at Chicago, Omaha and st. Paul
are paid now by special subscrip-
ton, and they only look out for the
cattle belonging to subscribers
Wyoming Exchange.
A colt should not be spoilt by
pettipg him. Be very good to him
but always treat him in strictly
business-like way, 1t will prove
the greateSt kindness you can do
him in the long run.
A well-read authority tells US that
in two years best will be at least
twenty-five per cent higher than our
best prices now, and that it will
never be worth less than that--as a
rule--during the life Of those now
living.
st. Louis is the greatest mule
market in the world. The sale
amount to over Sc, 600, 900 per pear.
Atlanta, Georgia, comes next, and
takes in over 100000, The
stock is raised in Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Missouri.
Miles City (Mont) Journal:
Shippers that got to market before
the price fell are congratulating
themselves, and those that can
hold of for a month or two are in
luck, but the men in the middle are
certainly getting squeezed.
Cattle thieves are reported to be
doing a good deal of damage to
stockmen in some parts of the west.
1t is said that nearly 600 cattle
have been run out Of single comfy
in Iowa, without the detection Of
the thieves.
Denver Colo Field and farm:
The Panhandle is a big country,
but is seems destined to be well
filled within go days, All the cat
tie of southern Colorado are being
driven there, while from lower
Texas the herds are being driven
up in great numbers.
The Tombstone Epitaph is au-
thority for the statement that San
Simon and Sulphur Spring valley
stockmen have purchased over 4,
900 tons of alfalfa hay in the Salt
River valley for Winter use. We
are not informed as to who the
stockmen are,
Mr.. Alpha G. Churchill, superin-
tendent of the Hatch ranch, which
has been leased by the Sierra
Bonita Cattle Co., leaves tomorrow
with several cowboys for the Sierra
Bonita ranch in Cochise county, to
b. ing up band Of 1000 head of
cattle to pasture and feed on the
ranch here.--Herald.
Bets are freely offered among
cattlemen at this time, with no
takers, that glutted markets for
western cattle will not disappear
before July, 1889. There is GER
tainly no indication at this writing
that better prices for range steers
arc to prevail during the remainder
of lsSS,-aIas Vegas Stock Grower.
A gentleman residing near Paris
Ky, has just sold from 1920
acre farm $50 head of 500 steers
This shows the capabilities of highly
cultivated stock farms where highly
bred cattle are also highly fed. The
steers go to England md it is said
to be the largest single shipping
purchase ever made.
J. II. lee is in town today, hav-
ing returned FROM attending the
Kirkland valley rodeo He says
the country ia dry and parched,
grass ye,y scarce and cattle poor.
Instead Of realizing q ninety per
cent. calf crop, as usual, this year
he says there will not be over fifty
per cent.--sJournal. Miner,