Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-07-19
Cattle Notes.

at $40
The regular Montana run Of cat
tie to the Chicago market has
commenced. and win amount TO
100000 head.
Good rains fell in the lower
Pecos valley last week. They
were badly needed as the whole
country vas very dry.
Last week Mr.. Taylor, a south
ern Colorado cattlcman, purchased
of the Romero Bros, Of Las Vegas,
900 steers, for delivery at Las
Vegas, at 81, $40 and Sl4.
Mr.. Lacey, formerly Of Lacey
& Archer, has purchased 1000
head Of cattle from Mr.. Cooper, of
the Sacramentos, recently. The
price paid was $3.50 per head,
calves thrown in.
Last week a cowman from the
lower Pecos was Offering a small
bunch Of ordinary grade stock
cattle at 50 per head around, calves
to be thrown IN. A number of
stocks are offered at 50 and upon
the same terms.
Col. Singerly, proprietor of the
Philadelphia Record, intends to
exhibit a steer at the Worlds Fair
which, for weight and general fine
condition will excel anything in
the record Of steers. The animal
is to weigh at least 5000 pounds
and will probably weigh over that.
A ten months calf was recently
rounded up on the Sioux, South
Dakota, range that weighed over
600 pounds, and it lacked one week
of being ten months old. The
dam, a high grade, was turned
loose on the range before the calf
was dropped and has been there
ever since. The sire was a regis
tered Shorthorn. This shows what
good blood will do.
1t is believed, says the Cheyenne
Live Stock Journal, that the cat
tlemen so long held at Fort Russell
Will be turned over to the johnson
county authorities in a few days
aud that arrangements will soon be
completed for the commencement
of a trial in the regular courts.
II has not been determined where
the cases will be tried but the in
dications point to Cheyenne as
the place.
A. D.. Goldenburg, OF Dona Ana
Co, returned last week from Kan
sas where he had been arranging
for pasturage, On his return trip
he shipped in thirty high-grade
Hereford bulls, raised by the Prai-
RE Cattle company. The bulls are
yearlings. He will keep them on
alfalfa aheil fall before turning
them loose on the-range. He re-
ports the weather in Kansas unus-
ually hot.
The Consolidated land and Cat
tie company, managed 10y G. w.
White, Waco, Texas, and ranching
in Fisher county, has recently
closed a deal with the Columbia
Cattle company, of Columbia Mo,
by the terms of which the last
named company sell their entire
herd of cattle, located near Dem
ing, numbering about 5000 head,
to the first named parties at s. per
head and accept in payment land
located in Fisher county at s. per
acre.
W. S. Hopewell should receive
the appointment to the vacancy
which will soon occur on the San
itary Board by the resignation of
Richard Hudson, of Silver City.
Mr.. Hopewell is more largely in
terested in cattle then any other
man in southern New Mexico, has
his residence convenient to the
headquarters of the board, and
enjoys the confidence and respect
OF every person who has the pleas
ure okhis acquaintance. In max
ing this selection, we feel certain
Gov. Prince would receive the en-
dorsement Of the cattlemen OF the
Territory Stock Grower.
An exchange says Plenty OF
salt is a great preventive of dis
eases. Witness the health OF
aocks grazing on the salt grasses
Of the Soutl Atlantic and gull
coasts aud thg salt brush" Of Ari-
IONA. Though they may be slight