Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-17
STOCK INDUSTRY.
General Roundup of News Relating
to Territorial Herds and
FlOckS.

Lambing season is at hand in the rura
districts.
! Sheep shearing is now in full blast
among our flock owners.
Stock business is picking up wonder.
| fully in Sierra county.
P. NJ. Chase, of the Animas, will soon
ship 1000 head of cattle to Texas.
A car load of fat cattle we're shipped
from Engle to Albuquerque on Monday.
Jones Taliaferro, of White Oaks, re-
Gently delivered 800 lambs to buyer at
Roswell.
Francis Clutton, of Cimarron, shipped
three cars of cattle to Kansas City on
Saturday.
Good butcher stock is scarce on the
Las Vegas market, and there is strong
demand for the same.
Hon. W. s. Hopewell sold 5000 head Of
Sierra county cattle this week to a couple
of eastern stock buyers.
A trainload of cattle en- route from the
Gila country to Kansas were fed at the
Las Vegas stock yards on Monday.
Quite number of ranchmen in the
southwest will try farming as an adjunct
to the stock business this summer.
W. j. Hill has commenced gathering
cattle for shipment. He will deliver
at San Marcial between the 25th and
eth.
The San Marcial Bee reports: Francis
Wilson has Jersey helfer sixteen months
old that is giving twelve quarts of milk a
day.
+. G. Barker in the Pecos Valley Argus
claims that there is more profit in rails
ing alfalfa to fatten hogs than in raising
fruit in New Mexico.
The Eddy Argus Last week the Argus
published an interview in which 1t was
stated that 1000 hogs would be turned
off by the Bolles farm this year. It
should have been stated that there would
be / 900 on the place, 500 to 20 to market
and 500 to hold over.
Cattle buyers from Texas are picking
up COWS on the New Mexican ranges
That state, formerly the stamping ground
of the festive and bony steer, finds its
pastures sadly depleted, and now that
the industry shows signs of improve.
ment the barons are taking steps to stock
up.
Preliminary arrangements have been
made by the Santa Fe Railroad company
to build stock yards and feeding station
at Trinidad. The company has con-
tract to move 10000 head of cattle, to be
turned over to the Gulf road at that
point, the destination of the cattle being
Montana.
The Stock Grower: A. O. johnson, of
Kansas City, No. called at this Office dur
ing the week. Mr.. johnson has pastur-
age, 40 miles from Kansas City, suffi-
cient for 1000 head of cattle and is will
ing to advance twe-thirds on all cattle
pastured by him. He also expressed his
willingness to loan money on cattle.
The Rio Grande Republic: Mr.. P.
Mothersill, manager of the Detroit & Rio
Grande CATTLE company, was in town
Wednesday last He reports having sold
], 400 head of steers, one, two and three
year old, for $40, $13 and $3.50, to be
shipped on April Is. His men are now
busy rounding them up. This is re-
ported to be the best price paid for cattle
this spring.
From present indications there will be
but few cattle left in this country at the
end of the season. The Hart Bros Land
T. Cattle company intend shipping their
entire herd. The Hagin q Hearst COM
pany will ship at least 5000 head, the
San Simon company will make large
shipments, and many of the smaller
owners intend shipping all the cattle they
can gather and sell.-Lordsburg Liberal.
Carefully compiled figures made re-
Gently by crank on the subject of stats
tics, develops the fact that for the eight
months ending April l, S3,l3O,000 bushels
of wheat were fed in the United States to
live stock. There we're in 1894, 100000
900 bushels less corn produced than in
1898, 8OO,OOO,OOO less than in 1891. Kan
sas produced 1OO,OO0,O00 less and Neb-
raska 14O,OO0,OOO less Of corn in 1894 than
in 1898.
Cattle shipments continue to be made
from this point nearly every day. Tom
Boone, formerly of this county, has been
here for the past ten days buying and
shipping cattle; he went to Separ yester.
day, from which point he will ship a train
load to Dodge City, Kas., and from thence
will drive them to Woodward, 0. T.,
where he is permanently located and
largely interested in the cattle business.
--Deming Headlight.
The Silver City Enterprise: Stock
shipments from this point have COM
menced again. Geo. d. Jones, Baylor
Shannon, Thomas N. Hawkins aud others
will ship within this week 1000 head of
stock cattle and steers. II. q. Boone, of
Kansas City, is large purchaser in the
market. The cattle shipped from here
will be unloaded at Dodge City, Kas., and
from there will be driven into the Nation.
Shannon and Jones will clean up their
stock interests in Grant county this year.
The Arid America, of Denver, says:
Cattlemen are feeling more bouyant now
than for the past six years over pros
poets OF good prices and the steady ad-
vance of the past ten days shows an in
dication of permanency. No industry in
America has suffered from low prices to
tho extent the cattle business has since
1886. We sincerely hope this great
western industry has passed through itss
darkest period and will soon regain it's
old time prosperity.
A cattle feeder near Denver has been
keeping tab on the weights and gains
made by some steers on alfalfa hay this
winter. He bought seventy head OF