Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-05-16
NEW MEXICO ST0CK BOON.


Every passenger train rolling into Ne"
Mexico from the north and east Vhese
DAYS brings from three to eight stock men
bent on purchasing cattle or sheep VI
this territory. The boom seems to be on
In earnest and prices have advanced TO
figure that makes the situation decideoly
interesting. If the estimate that Ne"
Mexico will market 800, 900 head OF three
and four wear old beef steers this season
| ia correct, and it would seem to be 80 |
the advance of 81 per head which has
| already taken place means great deal lor
the cattle growers.
| WILL THE ADVANCE CONTINUE?
Ia the question that the Kansas and Ne
braska, Colorado and Montana buyers
are asking, and the range country sellers
are quite as much interested in the ques'
ton as the buyers. Generally it is con-
ceded that the market is still further to
advance; but few OF the more conservs-
tive stock men make observations that
are worth taking into account. lhey pre-
dict steady appreciation OF peer STOCK
till about September, when they MINK
the market will sag, and they account lof
this by calling attention to the STATUS oi
affairs in the Indian nation. The execu-
a tive order for removal OF all STOCK from
those Indian ranges must be
oBEYED BEFORE OCTOBER.
At present Texas cattle are being I'M
y loaded there by the train load The idea
. il that they will be grass fatted till Sep
D tember and then rushed on to the Kan
sss CITY and Chicago markets, together
70 With all other stock ia the Indian country
,. OF course that will cause the market to
If drop, How much depends upon the
- number of cattle, and that IS as yet az
's omen question. One stock man says tn'
number now in the Indian territory II
H. bnt $50 900, while another, a Wichita man
n SAWS it is fully 800 900. They
90 CAN'T COME BACK TO THE RANGES
M of Texas or New Mexico; they are nov
* held too high for the corn raisers to bu
and feed SO they must go to the marke
an Taking this view Of it then, the Ne
20 Mexico range men are admonished to /
- careful; they must count on an advanC
IL over the present price for three month
be to come, but after two months the
Oh prices will probably be, under the clrcun
aid stances, well worth accepting.
"N The corn raisers now coming in to BIT
expect. they say, to pay from STA to 81
nd for fairly well graded threes, weighil
ps, S75 to 900. They will probably not ha
MD gle at
PAYING LITTLE MORE.
tx.
am These same cattle when they get
~. Newton or Wichita, Kas., or to cent
Nebraska points are held at from $26
r. 500. depending on general condition.
TO As to sheep, the whole central weste
en- country seems to be "stuck" on NJ
at Mexico mutton. In the markets OF Ia
will sas City, Denver and Chicago, 1t is IN
oct mand for its peculiarly rlch naVor'
gov the future, in those mari ets, there ID
tef- reason why the mutton 1atteneo on
ling short, sw eet grasses OF the New Mex
mountain ranges should not comma
ma better prices than any
OTHER CLASS OF SHEEP MEAT
y! Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa
Ni'' Missouri stock men are clamorlng for n
ting 49, shoon Missouri man (,
The 1000 head to that state recently and
rchi- them in small lots to farmers there a
m at net advance OF IS cents per head.
agents are now in the territory bidd
for $4,000 head.
della nurSr rpv POINTERS
I'd ~, s.ocL out,ook for New Me,
q d, were gathered yesterday along the re
al. from Newton, Kansas, to Santa fe
penn are given in order that our range st
Y by men NAV be able to hold their own W
nero striking a bargain with the shrewod S
hnvers now so numerous throughout
.h,+ territory