Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-02-07
Cattle Notsa.

Inc numDe or cattle now being
fed on alfalfa fields Of the Salt
River valley is vdriously estimated
from $4,000 10 $4,000 head.
Col. John II. Riley, Of Las Cru
ces, has negotiated a trade with
Kansas City parties for the cattle
belonging to the Barela estate,
Dona Aua county.
ALI. Rogers, of Ration, recently
picked up around that section of
Colfax county, a load of alfalfa fed
steers for which he paid $50 each.
They shipped to Kansas City
where they sold at $3.50, making
the purchaser some money.
J. @. Beattie, manager of the
New England Live Stock Co., Of
Fort Sumner, has contracted the
company's steers to E. j. Temple,
for delivery at Clayton, at $3.50,
S13 and $1,000.
John @. Hill, as agent has
recently bought of Messrs. Abreu
and Valdez, of Springer, all their
steers, ones and twos. They were
driven to the strip, where they
will be run in a pasture under the
H l L brand. Price paid was not
learned.
The difficulty of introducing
frozen meat into France arises
from the existence of a law necessi-
tating the retention of the lungs
in each carcass and the quartering
of the carcass before distribution.
These regulations VI practically
disguised protection, and were
adopted for political purposes by
the power of the farmers friends.
The main hope of obtaining a
slackening of the restrictions APP
pears to be in the necessities of
the army.
A couple of Mexicans were ar
rested near Las Vegas this week
having been caught in the act Of
killing cattle not belonging .tc
them. There was a gang of The
thieves, and it is expected that all
will be captured, as one of the
party has informed. There wer,
some nine head of cattle, belong
ing to various parties, and tn,
, meat and hides were sold at auc
, tion for benefit of owners. 1--WE
of the steers were in the L s
brand, and one or two in the 1 ]
brand. The balance belonged Il
! Aniceto Baca.
, Stock raisers have long com
planned of the custom stock rang
. employees have, Of catching up tn
! first horse they encounter an
riding the same for a day or so il
order to rest up their own horses
= The average cowboy in New Mex
leo has done this thing so lon
=, without complaint that he has we
nigh brought himself to believ
= that he is the owner of any hors
found running at large. The cui
: tom not only occasions untol
|, annoyance to the wner of horse
but actually stimulates the Grim
of horse stealing, and stockme
have come to the conclusion this
some law is required which wi
prohibit this sort of thing.
d The Colorado cattle grower
d association recently held its annI
9 al meeting, j. L.. Brush, vice-prei
5 ident, in the chair. Secretar
u Metcalf in his report said thu
u there had been no material fallin
u off in the values of Colorado cattl
u That it is currently stated and b
+ lieved that while our usual.
v thrifty and high selling neighbo
D. of the northwest have been par
10 ing with their wintered steers
~ prices ranging from fifty cents
seventy FIVE cents q hundred und
the prices realized last year, Il
average of Colorado's sales W
m better than for the previous yea
r. He was inclined to believe til
Id everything pointed to greater co.
I'd sumption of and a heavier demaI
a for cattle and consequently bett
e. prices. Within the past year the
n, has been a marked improveme
ct in the value of the stock he
On within the state, and quit9a nu.
ut Der of sales and transfers. III
mt of itself indicated a revival Of &C
~ fdence, while implying a scarci
of desirable investment of Il
al character.