Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-12-14
A GREAT SHOWING,
What New Mexico is Doing Toward
Marketing Fat Cattle and
Sheep.
A Talk With the Assistant Live Stock
Agent of the A., r. & S. F.
The Range and Other
Matters.

| The cattle business in New Mexico is
in the best shape possible just now as is
shown by the following interview with
Assistant Stock Agent Baird of the Santa
Fe route.
Mr.. Baird was interrogated by New
MEXICAN representative last evening and
gave the following information:
ESTIMATING from our records and &C.
counting for the probable shipments
from now to Dec. 81, over $500 cars of
cattle have been and will be shipped out
of New Mexico during the year 1898.
From Deming alone, $500 cars of live
stock have been shipped. Some sheep
were carried in these consignments, but
there were fully 2,575 cars of cattle.
"About thirty-two cattle are carried on
the average per car. This would give q
total of 16G,400 cattle of all grades and
classes shipped out of New Mexico dur
ing 1897
"Mr. Baird, how do you make up your
estimate of the number of cars shipped p"
1--WE have already shipped almost 5000
cars this year. We are now shipping two
big train loads per day, so that my es-
innate of 5000 cars by December 81 is
below what the actual figures will finally
show. This, however, is not all the cattle
taken out Of the territory by any means.
We have assisted to locate several herds
at places outside Of the territory. For
instance, we located 10000 at once on a
Kansas ranch, and 5000 more near the
Fort Worth road in Texas.
what about sheep?"
swell, we have had heavy sheep ship
ments ever since the first of the year.
During the month of February we shipped
$4,000 sheep from Las Cruces alone. Up
to date the Santa Fe road has shipped
100000 sheep; but you might make a
note that 100000 sheep we're trailed out
of Union county alone in addition to the
| first number. Besides this, j. B. Dawson
trailed out 10000 sheep and shipped
them to Kit Carson, Colo. Swift & Co.
also trailed into Colorado from New
Mexico $4,000 sheep. That would make
in all $4,000 sheep sold out of New
Mexico thus far this year that we know
ot' Va Coulscs tHeEe were some more
that are not included in these figures"
Glow is the ranger"
81 have been in New Mexico since 1874
and | never saw the grass on the ranges
in better condition. If not another drop
of rain were to fall in two years there
would be enough grass for the cattle.
The buyers say New Mexico is the only
place where cattle can be bought or
handled now. Our open winters permit
us to operate all the year round. C. E.
Scott, of Peabody, Kas., is buying heavily
now and is shipping to market right off
the range. Our shipments originate
about as follows: Demlng, 2,575 cars of
cattle; Magdaena, 1900; Springer, 300;
Engle, $50; Ration, 100; Las Cruces, 200;
Lamy, 100; Albuquerque, 1876; Silver City,
200. The Southern Pacific also shipped
about 100 carloads originating in New
| Mexico.
"By the way, Mr.. Pierson, of New York,
has fine ranch for race horses at Lima,
near Magda'ena. He ships them in as
colts and raises them here in our splendid
climate. He says that owing to the alti-
tude they will make record breakers"