Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25
Catti6 Notes.

Quite a number of tattle have
been shipped recently from Clay
ton to the South Omaha market
and returns to shippers have been
very satisfactory.
Asa and Uhas. Jones, accused Of
cattle stealing we're tried atSpring-
er last week, and acquitted.
J. A. johnson, of Albuquerque,
will ship in a few days several
thousand head of cattle to La
Junta, Col, for pasture.
Daggs Bros, of Flagstaff, will
commence shipping a large num-
Der of feeding sheep to Chilicothe,
ILL.,, some time this week.
A correspondent of the Wilcox
Stockman from Crittendon, Ariz.,
speaking of the drouth in South
Arizona says: "From present APP
pearances 20 per cent of all the
cattle in southern Pima county,
are now dead. They died during
the past winter and early spring.
The rains of January and Febru-
airy, 1892, depleted the herds as
though they had been showers of
poison. No man today through
out all this section has within half
the cattle that he had this time
last year. There has been some
fall of water over this section, but
the area was limited over which it
fell, and the time between each
fall was SO long that the effect of
one rain was entirely lost before
another came. Nothing but a
miracle can prevent the total loss
of every animal LEFT in southern
Pima county, and the sale of the
cattle Of I. Lille Mercer at S2.35
per head was a good sale, consid-
ering the present condition of the
range. Mercer gels over 50 for
his cattle and the purchaser gets
nothing. The only hope is that
all the cattle-not a part, but all
of them-be moved to some other
section, to Kansas, Nebraska OF
other places, where pastures can
be found at low price"
A correspondent of the Orange
Judd Farmer says: At present
the outlook of the cattle industry
is more encouraging than foI
years. The markets during the
past three months have improved
and the quality of the store stock
is frequently much better. Droverf
are realizing that only the best
stock is worth breeding. The
reasonable prices OF late years Al
which breeding sires could bt
bought has greatly improved the
stock generally. Advances. il
prices can but tend to encourage
the use of the best improved BLOOD
which in turn can but stimulate
much more buying of a better
quality of beef which is of itself
growth of demand. Fafmeri
should take heed now, however
that they give attention to early
maturity; the cases should b'
rare where a beef animal should
be retained beyond twenty Il
twenty seven months. The in
creased cost of production of bee
from older animals results in near
ly every instance in great loss T.
the farmer or feeder east of In
Missouri river. In this selling
young cattle lies one secret pre-
venting an over supply.
A prominent cattleman of on
of the southern counties state
that the country is dryer now tina
he has seen it since he landed j
the territory some twelve year
ago, and in consequence the cattl
are perishing in large number
He stated that water holes whic
were never known to go dry al
now dry, and where there is wate
it is 80 filthy that cattle will NJ
use it. He said that along I'll
2 banks of the Rio Grande, south I
} the city, the carcasses of man
! hundreds of cattle are seen. The
, would come down from the rang
to the rivor for water, but fndir
= none would wade out into Il
|. quicksand and there perish. Son
5 cattle, the gentleman stated, a
/ in so much misery for want
( water and grass that they delibe
Q ately commit suicide by waikiki
J. over precipitous cliffs and fall