The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-06-27
DYING Bf TuOUSHND.
New E,,.CL cattle Sirr,inX tn Ocatt ~
EnIn for S,N Months.

New E,>.CI cattle Srrr, InX tr Ocath ~
Hnin for S,V Months.
SnyIE trGY,N d.. June Il Stock
lncn ~ New M"Xlco have never bd
fore suffered anythin" like the losses
which arc now being borne on nc,
count OF the extreme ahortncss ot
feed. which has been brought partly
on account of OycrStOck"d ranges.
but mainly on account of the long
continued dry weather. There has
been no rainfall iOr more than SIX
months in tic southern portion of
the Territory, and the consequence
iS that the ranges arc hurc AMI brown
and cattle arc living by the hundreds
daily. Tho Lyon, y Campbell Cat :
tie Company, ON" OF the !;;Y.,r cou,,n
mes Oi tins county, reports IN average
loss of about forty head per day.
This company has shipped several
thousand head Of cattle within the
past two mouths. us many other
companies nnl individual owners
have done, but the ranges will noC
support the stock now on them unless
there m" heavy rains brfolc many
days to start ih" grass
Some of th" oldest rnnchmCu 1T
this country say inat Il the dry
weather continues Il mouth longer
they will lUsa un" fourth Of thrur
herds. Few cattle dIc out on the
ranges. The grass has boon eaten
down close to the ground III the Vi
cinlty Of nll the water courses and
watering pG,rcS. hmd the nerds III
some instances, go milc', into the foo.
hills or ont on the mrsal, where there
il better grass to feed. They rc
main out until thirst 'lricvCs them IL
and they drink their fill of water af-
ter which they iuvuilahly lie down.
Ihc weaker ones never got up.
Thousands OK blpntcd cnrcnsscs uf
dead cattle lir rOttinS in the ScOrch
ing sun in New Mexico. but the stock
men are hearing their LOSSES philoso
phically. Good prices arc bcinG
obtained for cattle shipped NORTH
for feeders. Steers which are now
selling here for from SIG to $40 per
head would not have ncttcd shippers
more than so to SS per head two
years ago. As long N such low pri-
cog prevail there were very few eat
tie shipped from Southern New Mex
leo, consequently tho ranges became
ovrrStOckod Stock shipments from
this Territory this spring hay" been
unprecedented. For moro than tive
months the Atchison, Topeka X San
tn Fee railroad has been taxed to it,,
utmost to move stock North, and nj
though extra crows have been put
- MT hn hnJ l,nh
made to do extra duty, the company
has been umabl" To furnish irtnspor-
tation for stock as fast ~ it has been
brought III from the ranges. Over
G0,OOO head Of cattle have been ship
ped over the Santa Fc in the past
two months from this county alone,
but the shipment oi thi8 large nlm
hey OF cattle has Iaalr no apprrciu
bic improvement in the condition of
the ranges, and losses from I>inp:
stock Will continue ut the rate of
thousands Of dollars daily until there
IS II good rain iull. In the northern
RAIN, ani cattle arc uci suffering, but
lin" LOSSES OF stock sustained by
rHncnm"n si,,,., dTi"s7 N1.rr 7,,.A- A4 ~. .
thCy are III southern N"l M"Nic'
mow. During thr pnaL ought months
more ntncI; im4 been lost in New
Mexico than had boon lost i'll ~
many year., previous to last Octohcr
Not Notwithstanding the ,lnlSual losses
of the past eight months, ihcay"ra-,
percentage ~ ins"; ~ New McXir0 iOl
len years has been less tl;nu that ot
amy nthr: stock raising section oI
tins, country.