Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09

with Grant county as good second. 1t
is believed, now that changes have oc-
CURED in the sheriffs of those counties !,
there win be perceptible difference not
ed as to the raids of the horse thieving
gentry. The evil probably viii be rene
died under the new administration of the
sheriffs offices.
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There should be no necessity to bring
iceboX meats into the Southwest. We
can produce sufficient choice beef for
home. consumption, and the budding en-
terprise of eur cattle growers. 10 this end
should be encouraged in every possible
way and thus forever put an end to the
excessive tolls which now attach TO the
eating of our beef which has been sent
east on foot to, and is returned from, the
dressed beef houses 500 miles away =
New Mexico Stock Grower.
Heavy rains are reported from all parts
of the southwest the past week. No such
storms in duration has been known here
for years. In Northern New Mexico and
Arizona the precipitation was snow The
drouth is ended and water holes will be
found on portions of the ranges inaccessi-
bic to cattle hitherto on account of the
prevailing dryness of the country The
storm started from the Gulf of Mexico
and continued north and west, covering
the entire southwest f New Mexico Stock
Grower.
The Upton ranch, situated few miles
north of Las Vegas, was sold last week to
ST. Louis stockman, who VIII at once
transform it into horse breeding estab-
lishment, breeding the Percheron thereon
and thus establishing the first distinctive
horse breeding enterprise in New Mexico.
The tillable land of the ranch, to the ex-
tent of 600 acres, will be wholly devoted
to alfalfa, which, it is claimed, makes
the best feed for breeding mares and
their progeny.
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The Vending Cattle Company of New
Mexico and Colorado, has sent this sea
son to Chicago and elsewhere for sale
1000 beef steers. These have gone at
low price, but Mr.. Vending of the COM
pany, says: "Our cattle are increasing
and growing so fast we cannot afford to
hold steer after he is four years old.
The 1000 just gone out had to give way to
y
on and demand the range -
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A good many cattle are being shipped
from Montana now, and most of them
are in good condition. The stock owners
up there are feeling placid over the pres
ent situation and the outlook, if one may
judge from the tone of the papers pub
lished in that country.
The Cooper Brothers of Colorado are
placing on the range west of Magdalena,
n. NJ. , 600 head of stock cattle for win
ter grazing, and fears are expressed that
there will be an overcrowding of the
pastures there as well as in other parts of
the territory.
The tax levy of the Continental Cattle
Company in Custer county, NJ. T., of
which John W. Buster of Weatherford is
manager, is S6437 this year 1t is the
heaviest tax payer in that part of the
country.
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The Palo Blanco Cattle Company of
New Mexico has been supplying Missouri
feeders with a considerable number of
steers the past month, Mr.. Noel of Lone
Jack taking the larger part of them.
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Owing to the failure of the hay crop in
some parts of Colorado abe value of cat
tie has decreased as that of hay has risen,
so that now it is said you can trade ton
and half of hay for good COW.
The Cleveland and Colorado Cattle
Company of New Mexico recently sold
1000 head of two-year- steers and up
wards to Nebraska feeder at SIS per
head.
Sundance (Wyo ) Gazette: Grass and
stock are in splendid condition, and an
other favorable winter like the last will
again put the cowman in his glory.
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Wolves are unusually destructive in
Montana this year. Stockmen there
think bounty should be offered so that
some of them would be wiped out.
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Silver City GdahO) Avalanche: Stock
men claim that the winter range is much
better this fall than it was last, and think
that stock will winter fairly.
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The Bell Cattle Company, whose ranch
is near Springer, is shipping some 1000
head of cattle to Coffeyville, Kansas, to
be fed and fattened through the winter.
The Fort Worth and Denver RAILROAD
has carried over 5000 ears of cattle north
over its line since the opening of that
road for traffic.