Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-05-19
soc. and sI.oo, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York.

The ranges of Colfax county are in
the pink of condition and furnish q
tempting invitation to stockmen desir-
ing pasturage.
L. A. Allen is in Eddy for the purpose
Of receiving 5000 of l, 2 and 3-year-old
steers for the Kansas City Live Stock
Commission.
Geo. and Walter Hyde, of Three Riv-
ers, have delivered a bunch of steers at
Engle, for which they received SIG, $40
and $23 per head.
w. H. Wilcox has purchased a car
load of registered Herefords which he
will use to improve the stock on his
range neal Wagon Mound.
Maple P. Reynolds, of Chihuahua,
Mexico, visited Eddy county last week
for the purpose of looking up the cattle
market and range conditions.
w. w. Cox, of San Augustine, Dona
Ana county, recently sold 100 head of
thoroughbred Hereford yearlings. He
did it against the competition OF Colo
RADIO breeders.
w. W. Cox, of Las Cruces, has pur-
| chased several thoroughbred bulls from
the Sunny Slope farm, Emporia, Kas.
One of them weighs 1850 pounds and is
valued at s 5000.
Andres Romero is home at Albuquer-
que from his Rio Puerco ranch. and
| states that Landing in that part of Va
lencia county will average IS per cent,
and the sheep are in fine condition.
A year ago last week New Mexican
lambs sold at Sc. 10 per 100 pounds. Two
years ago this class of lambs sold at $4.45
to $4.6O per 100 pounds. This year the
increase in price will be better than
ever.
j. B. Mathews, president of the Pc
nasco Cattle company, has purchased
5000 head of Mexican cattle which are
now being delivered at the company's
ranges in Lincoln and Chaves counties.
j. W. Medley, of Datils, reports that
the stock industry is tlourishing and that
while many of the big cattle companies
have gone out of business there. their
places have been taken by numerous
ranchmen having small punches of cat
tie.
olC ddf iunV WOOh l. u VI S0UVlO
reached Albuquerque, and the next day
10000 head of sheep arrived at the same
place for pasturage in New Mexico.
They came from California points, where
the recent drouths have killed all the
stock feed, and where hay now sells at
$21 per ton.
Between 1893 and 1897 the price of
wool varied from 4 to 7 cents per pound.
Some sheep men did not shear their
sheep because the proceeds did not
justify the expense, and sheep, wool and
all were sold to eastern butchers. Since
last July the price of wool has fiuctuat-
ed between 10 and 1871 cents. The
average throughout the southwest has
been II cents per pound. Now who will
deny a protective tariff.
Nearly all the stock contracted for
last winter at Eddy were received and
paid for last week. Those who deliv-
cred cattle and received the cash were:
Pendleton e. Lusk, 14l head, ~, lab; w.
G. Cass, 30 head, 1898; J. D. Forehand,
IS head, $2SS; w. j. Barber, 253 head,
81, 940; William Edwards, so head, S901;
William Jones, SIS head, $40, 7O4; d. w.
Runyan, SO head, $1,598; w. u. Dannel-
ly, A head, 1874; c. w. Merchant, 142
head, $2,551; w. w. Ward, II head,
SITS; Sam B. Smith, 1876 head, 80, 742;
Miles I. Stone, 1876 head, So ,046; r. l..
Hall, 2T9 head, $4,912; w. d. Hudson,
666, 1901; Segrest & Brogden, 4S6
head, $1,000. so. All the above, with the
exception of the cattle purchased from
Segrest & BrOgden, went to the Kansas
| Citv T jvn G%ooly oouponv Most nc &Lo
stock will be driven to Amarillo and
from there q portion of them shipped to
Kansas City, the remainder being dis
tributed to good range points.
Stock and, range conditions in Texas
have not compared favorAbly with New
Mexico during the past winter, If the
following communication to the Dallas
News is authentic: sNews from Colo
RADIO City is to the effect that sheepmen
In Mitchell and the counties adjoining it
to the north have suffered greatly dur
ing the past winter and the present
spring. The winter was unusually mild,
but the cold snaps that occasionally set
in were damaging to the fiocks and the
cold and unreasonable spring weather
had the effect of further Increasing the
ter with large herds Of thrifty sheep are
are nov counting, tens where they then
counted hundreds. Recent rains and
warmer weather will nowapu an end to
the damage, for the grass is growing
rapidly all over west Texas and both
sheep and cattle are fast improving. A
great amount OF Texas stock was moved
to New Mexico during the winter, where