Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-30
Stock and Wool Buyers Are Plenti-
full, But Sales Few at the Pre-
vailing Prices,
GOOD RANGE CONDITIONS
What Prominent Stockmen Are Doing in
the Various Oounties-The Fall Ship
ments Will Be in Excess of
Previous Years.

induced shippers to take advantage OF
holding Il great portion of their stock
previously destined for sale or for ship
ment to Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota
grounds, in the territory, and
as a result, New Mexico has more cattle
the ranges than has been known for
some years.
Prices are rapidly advancing but there
seems to be little disposition to sell. In
the event of higher fall prices greater
shipments will be made than ever before
in the history of the territory. Cattle
men generally. feel that they can make
more money by holding stock than by
selling now and the superior feeding
conditions indicate that nc loss is pos
slble from such a course.
Grant county has had several recent
cattle sales and the reports from there
seem to indicate that it is one of the
best stock regions in the west.
ChaveS county is holding it's time hon
ored position in the front ranks of the
cattle counties and the large operators
there are pushing matters with zeal.
Eddy county is advancing the wool
business of the territory. Some sales
were recently made at 10 and ~ cents
per pound.
Stock Notes.
The alfalfa crop of Iona Parda is all
in and stacked.
Sierra county is supporting $4,000
head of goats.
A. 0. Wilbur is buying cattle in the
Sacramento mountains.
Over 1000 head of cattle were shipped
from Silver City last week.
Mr.. Rustin has moved his Watrous
herd of cattle to Martinez.
A. j. Kaollin & Co., have sowed 105
acres of alfalfa on their Hondo ranch.
L. f. Peters. of Bonito, will ship a
train load of cattle from AlamOgordo
July /.
Las Vegas wool warehouse operators
report the clip slow in coming in this
spring.
w. II. Godair and son, of Chicago, are
looking after their sheep interests near
Roswell.
Charles Springer's herd of fine Bollie
cattle has been moved from the flats to
| Martinez.
Mark A. Hill, of Lordsburg, has sold
| his cattle and brand to H. ID. Wright
and brother,
George Belcher recently shipped a
herd of cattle from Magdalena to east
ern buyers.
Jaffa, Prayer & Miller, of Roswell, re-
Gently sold their 4 $ 1000 pound wool clip
to Leon Hatlin.
The Crawford & Burns wool clips are
in, swelling Eddy county's production
90 5000 pounds.
l.. L. Stockwell is drifting several
thousand head of sheep from New Mex
leo to Nebraska.
The Bloom Cattle company recently
received 67 head of Illinois-bred Here
ford bulls at Roswell.
The May importation of Mexican cat
tie was 81, 1873 head. A trifle more than
the imports for May, 1897.
c. w. Haynes has moved his cattle
from the Hollowman tract to his Hondo
ranch in Chaves county.
The government is buying 1000 head
of cattle in Texas and the Indian Terri
tory for the U. S. soldiers in Cuba.
Rankin & Hall, of Deming, have
brought 500 head of cattle from Mexico
for shipment and grazing this year.
The Salt Creek Sheep company and
A. d. Garrett, of Roswell, have finished
shearing their flocks and have stored
their wool.
VIM. Balm. of San Marcial, recently
delivered 700 head of cattle to Mr.. Bald
win, who shipped them to his Colfax
county pastures.
Colonel Dick Hudson has leased the
Carrizalillo Springs ranch near Deming
and will drive some of his Cedar Grove
cattle to that place.
w. Z. Nelson and w. A. Watkins
have stored at Eddy, 1000 and Is, 200
pounds of wool, respectively, the results
of their recent clips.
Brand burning by cattle rustlers is re-
ported from the Lake Valley region and
stockmen are taking measures to pro-
tect themselves. q
Fully $50 cars of cattle have been UNI
loaded at Lake View, al Eddy, this
spring, for the purpose of stocking the
range in that locality.
Robert Hannigan and Charles How
elett have disposed of a number of cattle
to j. T. Elder, Of Kansas City.
Juan Chavez y Herrera sustained a
loss of 100 head of sheep from lightning,
near White Oaks last week.
Lincoln county stockmen aver that
recent rains have added thousands of
dollars to the stock interests of that
section.
j. j. s. Smith, G. f. White and Cam
eron g. Davis, of Eddy, recently sold
their wool clips to San Angelo buyers at
from 10 to IL cents per pound.
The cattlemen of Colfax county are
taking measures to exterminate the
wolves in that locality. They offer $15
for each wolf hide and scalp.
Alfred Manly has leased 5000 acres
of ground near Eagle Tail mountain of
the Maxwell Land Grant company, and
will use it for cattle grazing.
Kentucky blue grass grows without
irrigation In the Sacramento mountains.
Ranchers there think it is the greatest
stock country in the west. /.
The reservoir site for the Bloom Cat
tie company, in Chaves county, has been
surveyed. 1t will be supplied with
water from an artesian we'll.
Colonel Richard Hudson, Baker Bros,
Whitman Bros. and Lindsby recently
disposed of 800 head of /, , and 3-year-
old steers at Separ for $50, $23 and zee
per head respectively.
Mr.. Eaman, representing the Kansas
City Commission Co.. recently purchased
$500 head of 2 and 3-yeAr-old steers
from c. B. Willingham, of Roswell. He
has shipped them to Montana pastures.
The Matheson Commission company,
of Eddy. has received the following con-