Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-05-30
Cattle Notes.

1--WE are now approaching a new
era. The beef supply in sight is
not sufficient for an ordinary year
much less the extraordinary emer-
gency of to-day. The increase of
cattle in 1890 was only 3 per cent,
in 1891 it was II per cent, and in
1892 less than of / one per cent.
These slight increases we're owing
TO the increase of dairy stock. On
the range the steers and COWS we're
still being forced TO market We
are therefore threatened with a
shortage of beef. A short time
ago the Armours, Cudahys and
other big packers announced that
they had over years supply of
beef in their cold storage. No one
at the time stopped to think of the
thousands of acres of cold storage
this would require. It is imposs-
i5le. For some reason the packers
lied. It looks significant to me.
Sometime previous, when pork was
80 to 4 cents per pound, these same
men announced that they had two
years supply Of hog meat in cold
storage. When pork took such a
sudden upward jump last year they
we're called on to deliver this sur,
plus. They then frankly admitted
that they did not have the pork.
Owing to the scarcity this meat
jumped from 81 and 4 cents to s
aud 81 or over 100 per cent. Not
considering at all their foreign
contracts, any sane man knows
there is not enough of cold stor-
Sge to pack away two years supply
of American beef or pork. These
statements always precede a rise
in the market. The drain on the
range has exhausted all the 3 aud
4-year-old stock. The northern
buyers can not even find 2-year-
olds. The feeders of the east are
hunting for 3s and As to fatten.
To-day in Kansas they are even
fattening yearlings. Both scarcity
of grown steers and the demand
therefore are bound to increase,
Suppose you start with a herd OF
1000 she cattle, and take every
thing into account, but from a
favorable view, at a period of little
less than five years you will have
600 4-year old steers to markei
The sixth year you will have about
900, but it is not until along in the
eithgth or tenth year that your
herd has produced she cattle
enough to allow you to market &
large bunch of steers. "Now JUS
look at another thing. From now
until winter there will be ane xcesi
of travel of nearly 100000 per
sons. A man travelling consume,
40 per cent. more meat than a
home. The conditions are;
scarcity of supply then excessive
and stimulated demand. The
range and farm herds are depleted
of beef cattle. Now, young mar
do you see the reason for my
assertion that cattle are a gooC
investments"
Eddy Argus: The spring round
up that worked northward along
the valley recently resulted in 40,
600 head of cattle being herdeC
while the stock were being separa
ted by the various outfits. Tn,
cattle have mostly been sold anC
are now being driven to the SAINTS
Fe line for shipment to northern
pastures. Most of the herds wer,
in poor condition, the range hav
ing long ago been eaten out ant
trampled until the grass is dead
Soon there will not be a vestig
left of the range herds that ono
numbered hundreds of thousands
The land upon which the csttl
used to Craze and the cowboy Il
/ ride, shout and shoot, are rapid,
coming under cultivation and al
falfa fields are becoming grazing
ground for fine stock and cattl
being brought in from the east.
Major N. A. Adams, Manhattan
shipped two train loads of cattl
Saturday from Lorsburg to Kansa
pasture. This is the fourth install
mentof 300 cars of stock purchai
ed by Major Adams.
The Santa Fe is at present mov
ing cattle as fast as cars can b
procured. The shipments Of III
week ara principallv from Silve