The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-03
MOGOLL0N WILD CATTLE.
FIERCE FOUNTAIN HERDS FO UND
Nv NEW MELICO.
Their Meat Has the Flavor or = Fine Com
binatiOn OF Keer and v~onison-Cncer
tninty OF Their Origin-Their Battles
with wild Beasts-Hunt After . Herd.

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AMY o, LIN ."r H.
socoRRo. y. NJ April ao.-A tenderIoot
staying AZ the mouse OF a rahchmah I'D inc Nho-
COLON Mountain region In the west part OF
Socorro county was much taken Wild the
beef which was served AT the tame. WAS
tender and JUICY ana seemed 70 combine the
finest havors or beer ana Venison. ne asked
his host the cause OF thls peculiar eAceiiehce.
It's Wild ocef' sald inc rahchnhan' us
t. siiioin I'll. tToT g hcuer that u hunter
brought In yesterday. FINE meat. lsnt it'
The grass Is green IN the mountain Valleys
and on the slopee and mesas now ana the ~ild
cattle are getting rat.
Never heard or the Mogollon villa cattieE
Why, there are a thousand OF EN- running
wild In the mountains to-day. lhered 90
more of 'em but since prospectors and miners
have come into the mountains they've got
thinned out some. The settlements have cut
into their range. and hunters Kill 'em to sup
ply the mine camps with beer. How ala they
come to be In the mountainsf Wen. they re
from ranch STOCK run wi!d' put now long
they've been running In the Mogollons It's
hard to tell. There are people VINO pretend
to say that they are descended from cattle
prought from spain by INC OH opahisn oo'oh-
lists three hundred years ago. Others say
that they started from stray ranch STOCK that
got into tho mountains since people from the
States began to raise cattle IN New Mexico.
Settlers or emigrants passing through the
country were Killed or run or by the Apaches
and their stock which the Indians didn't XIII
naturally learned to shit for tself' FER
haps both stories were true. What we know
Is that they arc a great bother TO ranchinen
living about the Mogollons. When feed gets
short In winter In tho mountains they'll go
Tor the outlying haystacks. and walls ana wire
fences don't cut any figure In Keeping EN- ont.
What hay they don't eat they trample and
toss about. and you can't Keep EN- away I'M
less you stand guard all the time with n
buffalo gun. Worse still. the ranch cattle
follow 'em or into the mountains and get as
wild as they are In no time 80 that It's next
thing to impossible TO cut out n COW or young
animal that's joined a Wild herd. The Wild
bulls Kill or main the lame bulls ana steers.
and they fr'ghten the mule teams that are
used In freighting In and out OF the mines.
A teamster, let me tell you, Is In bad luck II he
meets a band OF wild cattle stampeding down
n narrow canon,
"Tha r.ncbmen have ,r,sd IN keon ,em down
by shooting EN-, and sone years ngo Jesse
Pitts got the other cattlemen round the Mo-
gollons to organize a grand round up with tho
idea OF capturing a big lot or the Wild cattle.
But the scheme couldn't be made to work.
inc country 'hey ranged IN was 100 DIX ana
rough. The cattle wouldn't be driven, and
they could 90 where no horse or mule could
,a,Iou, . ,,a ,htro bod m IA, ci,or mn
ioiio"' " '"o "'"N
These cattle can take care or themselves
anywhere and everywhere, you bet. There's
49, ii =. ,inromo, hoo, -, 49, 100000
no Rri%"iy u IVA vi )" oN'e'F"ce
that wants to tackle n grown bull, and n COW
defending her calf will give one a good stand
a., q, IA - - g.. -,
on. More WA" ohe "'au ue"' nus "'eh lo"hd
In the MoGollons gored to death by wild cat
tie mountain lion has still less business
- 80 49, NO. ,,. ~
WIN them 'n"" " uea, a u he II ro'hetlhes
take a shy at a calf that's strayed a little from
the herd. II he can kill II before the others
Ia n. doas,,, ,nt,, ,ha 49,
come 10 ite a'' IL "oVe ! MINT 'he 'hahces
OF being driven or, for ne can como back to It
after thew have gone away.
81 49, mountain lion tread nv n wild hui,
isa" moun,.,' ion ,'eo" o'A viva nu'l
luck of having a tree to climb. was hunting
- ard nod c,,uh.d % ~. 800
a straye" '"'s'' anu """ NV W Top OF
a mesa to take a look around. Down In n
oraasv valley. 200 feet or so below me. I spied
S'a''' ii, a,,,I. ,.o1t,. -. -
q band 81 wiz un''s irreeuu,nmHH' anu lust as l
looked 'S" = n lie lone t n~ n H"ir pPnuunEnmn 70,
ground with u mountain iinn standing over
him, swltchlnR MS tnlI, nrlS.lIhR ms mar ana
making eencrniS q EleaI ueIlpnsLT htlnh thht
he meant hGlt, WINE a cow WIN her horns
lowered came Steh hy sIep '9Wara MN. There