Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-03-28


Leon @. Shaw, Of Clayton, N. NJ,
has sold his entire aock Of sheep,
some 5000 head, ranging in Mora
county, to N. Gaus, Of Montana
for $4,000. The sale was made
through the agency Of William
Green, Of Hastings, Colo. The
same party also purchased Of the
lake Ranch Cattle company some
5000 wethers; price, private.
There is more snow on the
White mountains than usual, so
parties who have been there de-
clare. This insures a longer flow
than usual in the Hondo.
A correspondent in the Penasco
section of Lincoln and Eddy coun-
ties says the recent winter has
been unusually satisfactory to
stockmen there, aud the outlook
is good for a better season than
has been seen for years.
Francis Cluttou, of Cimarron,
has sold his steers, alfalfa-fed to a
Kansas buyer at $3.50 per humid
red, weighed out at Maxwell City.
The same man also purchased all
of the Charles Springer steers at a
stated price per head, the same not
learned. The cattle were to be de-
livered this week.
The tariff agitation is hardly
strong enough to knock the bottom
out of the wool market. Some
wool politicians would like to kick
a big hole through it, but their
copper toes don't work.
A party of eastern capitalists,
more or less interested in the cat
tie business, at the Northwest
Texas cattle Raisers' association,
ldin Fort Worth on March IA. The
party, it is stated, numbered from
fifty to one hundred. The visit
of these gentlemen, at this time,
maymaen more than appears to the
surface.
Some people are still claiming
that cattle are not scarce in Texas;
others clsim that they are just as
plentiful as ever, and both pro-
positions are erroneous in some
respects. Cattle are not alarm
ingly scarce, but there is just sim
ply a better demand for them, and
this demand gives the appearance
of scarcity to the supply because
those who have cattle of the class
- ought for are unwilling to part
with them without a good plice is
obtained. Fort Worth, Tex,
Journal.
From all quarters comes the cry
of an actual shortage of beef cattle,
and the idea is rapidly gaining
wide prevalence hat before the
year closes beef values will be
greatly advanced. There is good
ground for this idea in that the
west, the great range area, is al
most depleted of its she herds the
future output of beef steers must
come very largely from the impor-
tations of southern steer cattle.
Unfortunately the south has of late
caught the prevailing idea that it
did not pay to breed cattle, and the
great she herds of Texas and New
Mexico have been decimated by the
spaying of heifers and the ship
ment of COWS until the supply of
young steers really below the de-
mand. Beef values will advance
for three years if there is any de-
pendence to be placed in the
that are cast before, but
there will be no famine, as some of
our friends pretend to believe.
This is a good time to ''hold on" to
your cattle and increase the size of
of your herd by all legitimate
means. Keep out of debt, but get
all the cattle you can pay for and
properly take care of.-Cheyenne,
Wyo, Journal.
The Barela cattle, in Dona Ana
county numbering $4,000 head,
and purchased by James A. Lock
hart, of Deming, and John H. Ri
ley of Las Cruces, are being
shipped to feeding grounds in
Montana as rapidly as possible.
A gentleman by the name of
Adams has purchased 10000 head
of cattle from parties in the vicin-
of Phoenix, Arizona, the stock
to be handled over the Atchison
road between April LIST and May
LIST.