Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-02

Fire on July IS, entirely de-
stroyed the Cleveland stock yards
and exchange building.
NJ. s. Otero is shipping a large
number Of cattle from his Berna-
lilo county range to Kansas, where
he will pasture them.
IL is automatically asserted that
the Pueblo stock yards have been
purchased by the Kansas City
Stock Yards company for Sl25,0O0
cash.
The steer, Gays a writer, must go
to the block at two years old if a
thoroughbred, and at thirty months
if a high grade, if any profit is ex-
pected.
Over 10000 head Of cattle nearly
all steers, have been shipped from
Magdalena during the past thirty
days to northern ranges and east
ern pastures.
Dan Taylor, lest week started a
bunch of 1900 head Of mixed cattle
which he has been holding near
Folsom, to Fremont, Colorado,
where he will turn them on the
range.
A number of steers from the
ella river range, of the Red River
Cattle Co., r being shipped to
the range of the company in Col
fax county, where there are now
few'cattle and the range is good.
The calf crop throughout New
Mexico will be poor this year; and
will continue so until the range re-
covers from the effects of the over
stocking which took place during
the boom days. The rapid reduc-
ton which has taken place in the
number of cattle in the past five
years is already having a good eff
feet, but the damage resulting from
the overstocking will not be affect
ed for several years yet.-Stock
Grower.
About 10000 sheep, principally
wethers, have been in the vicinity
of Las Vegas for the past month.
Some 10000 are the property Of
Chas. Ilfeld, of Las Vegas; $4,000
destined for Shelton, Nebraska
10000 belong to Swift & Co., Kan
sas City, and will be driven to Ne
braska and Kansas feed lots; TO-.
1000 for s. M, Newton, Ogden, Kan,
sas, who will drive them through
to his feed lots; $4,000 were in the
hands of Pebbles and Seldomridgt
who will trail them to their Colo
RADIO range. All of these focki
have gone through the dipping
process, a large portion having
been run through the tanks erect
ed by MI. Held, near Las Vegas
Stock Grower.
Texas fever is reported to have
broken out in Lyon county, Kan.
sas. About 1890 head of Texas
cattle were recently brought into
the county over the M. K. & T.
and driven over the southern por.
ton of the county to MI. Brogan'i
pasture in Chase county. In the
neighborhood of the road ovel
which the Texas cattle had beer
{ driven the native cattle have. dice
, of Texas fever. At last account
fifty cattle had died and severa
, reported infected. Mr.. Hurst, o
the Kansas state sanitary commits
sion, Sheriff Evans and S. V. Bit
Ter, chairman of the Lyon count,
board of commissioners, afte
making an examination of the in
fected region, established a quar-
antine along the route travelled b.
the Texas cattle.-Stock Grower
The top of the hill has evident
ly been reached in the cattle mar
ket for a spell. Feeders and ship
pers have enjoyed a brief season o
prosperity, such as has never beer
known before. Those who were
fortunate enough to get in at the
right time received margin enough
to fully compensate for losses suf
fered in former times of depres
sion. Now the country seems t.
be waking up to the realization
, that there is no opportunity Xix,
the present Already the trade il
being affected by excessive runs
/, and it is only a question of time
and a short time, too, when tn.
a., bulk of the advance viii be swep
, away, and this will fall heaviest o.
/, cattle that are green and uninish