El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-20
Notes.

SOLOMON LUNA, President.
Notes.
It is reported that the cattlemen
have obtained permission from Wash
inpton to cross their cattle from Mex
| leo into the United States by first dip
ming each head into q vat OF the solu-
ton composed chiefly Of petroleum
which acts AS a disinfectant. b. "A.
Packard and M. M. Sherman will cross
their large herds, which we're stopped
| bv the quarantine in q few days.
Prospector.
| JIM Dobie, a prominent stockman
| of Lac arto, came up from La Sale
county yesterday, having just complet-
ed the delivery Of 700 2-year-old steers
to H. G. Storey, which were traced for
last spring. Mr.. Dobie says that be
| finds it dryer throughout the south
western ranges than he has seen 1t In
manv years, but that he has got MS
pastures so lightly stocked that with
the aid of little rough winter feed his
stock will pull through all right. He
| is rough feeding through the winter
700 head of 1 and 2-year-old steers near
Tulsa, L. T. At Newport, Ark, he has
14OO head af big feeding steers that
have been on full feed now for forty
days.-San Antonio Express.
Montana cattlemen now claim that
they will not buy southern cattle free
lly hereafter unless they are first &C.
olimated.j They want the cattle
brought into sColoralo for the first
winter and after that they are willing
to take them on north for the next
winter. There are probably over 1OO.-
900 head of southern cattle in Colorado
this winter which will be in good
sh ape to 90 north in the spring. There
is no reason why the southern cattle
tshould not be brought to Colorado In
the spring as yearlings and sent north
the following spring as 2-year-olds, to
finally go to market as matured beef AZ
, years Of age. This will probably be
the future movement OF these CATTLE
Stockmsn.
Texas stockmen have been somewh at
disgruntled over the restrictions on
shipping during the winter months,
for while quarantine WAS raised in
northern states. Fortu ately there is
at present no real necessity for ship
ming, The demand at home is strong
> from those who want to feed, and from
t our best information Texas has ample
q seed for all the cattle in her territory.
Cattle can be made as far as Texas as
y they can in Kansas or Illinois. and this
l. is a good time for feeders to show what
r can be done. The cattle shipped from
Texas to northern states during the
season shows decrease of nearly 1OO.-
r 600 compqred with last year, and 81
9 Texas farmers take more to feeding
l. the numbers will probably continue to
steadily decrease year by year.
lDrovers' Journal.
r Colonel A. P. Bush, president OF the
a Cattle Raisers' association and Hon
Is. II. Cowan, attorney for the organi-
cation, returned yesterday from Chi
= cago, where they have been to look az
q ter the vexatious terminal charge o.
n 81 per car on cattle shipped to the
Chicago market. The interstate COM
/: merce commission held in q recent de-
. cision that the charge should not oe
i over ST. per car. The railroads, how
" ever, refuse to refund the excess
charge heretofore collected or to OBJ
&c serve hereafter the terms of the com
MISSIONS decision, and thefore the of
ficials of the association have decided
10 to institute suits in the federal courts
n against the roads. A large number o
ested In the matter, and it has been
st long and interesting legal battle.-Ft
le Worth Register.
lie One of the most surprising thing
TO in connection with the trade il
thoroughbred cattle these days, is the
eagerpess with which Texas buyer
= are loadinr up with fine bulls and COWS
- Five years ago there was scarcely
ID thoroughbred bull in the state of Tex
W as. Today Texas probably rank
- among the first one-half dozen state
in point Of herds of fine cattle. Sh
has been one of the best buyers at al
ii of the thoroughbred sales held in Kan
- sas City this year. One buyer from
IL that state scooped in twenty nine hea'
to at the Cross sale this week. takin,
j. about one-fourth of the total offerings
If the western states do not exercise
great deal of vigilance in building u
a. their herds for the purpose of produc
:. ing fine beef animals. Texas will COM
~ along in the course of few years an
hold the supremacy in the quality Q
animals she sends from her ranges, q
we'll as holding first place in the tota
n number.
ra Capt. John T. Lyle, president of the
ne Live Stock association, in his reply t.
n DR.. J. w. Connoway, PROMINENT vete
at rinarian of Missouri. says that Texa
cattle don't have fever. 1t Is plain tn
fight is on and will always be O.
against southern cattle, whether diI
ped or not The fact is the mort
wants Texas cattle, but wants ther
as with handicap that the norther
1t markets may reap the big end OF th
10, profits. The sooner Texas caffeine
Is realize this and show their independ
"a. ence by establishing one or two larg
refriRerators at home, say one &
Houston or Galveston and go
Strengthening their animals for the O.
-, ban and eastern markets, the better
-s will be for them Such an indepen
ae emit course would change the feelin
10 against southern cattle at the mort
&c quicker than anything else. Th
. northern markets need Texas cattle q
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