El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-10

porter.
From 500 to 600 cattle are being fed
within q mile or two of Dallas, all OF
them intended for the local market.
Burl Holloway sold this week to Joe
Nations, OF Ell PasO, two car loads of
Era.
The Littlefield Cattle company ex-
poet to ship four train loads of cattle to
Kansas City from this point about De-
cember lO.-Las Vegas Optic.
P. J. Towner, Colorado sanitary in
spectOr, reports los, 500 head of sheep
having left New Mexico via the Santa
Fe road for Colorado feeding pens.
Ike Gronski. West Texas sheep.
man, has sold 3547 head of his muttons
ranging in the Pecos county to s. A.
Eaton of Kansas, at 1926 around
Dallas News.
w. h. Long, the sheep breeder, late
OF San Miguel county. is here to locate
and has his two herds of some 4 800
head'of sheep east of the Pecos river.
Las Vegas Optic.
D. G. Pryor, brother of the San
Antonio stockmxn, has gone to Cuba
with q consignment OF 500 cattle for q
Texas firm. He expects to remain
permanently In that country.
Valley News.
w. T. White passed through last
Friday from Alpine and Maria, where
he purchased 10, 900 head of sheep from
different parties. He now has the
| sheep enroute to San Angelo, where he
Is associated with James r. Hamilton
in the business.-Pecos Picking.
M. Cartwright, of Terrell, is expect
| ed to arrive here tonight for the pur-
pose of receiving the 400 steers he re-
Gently purchased from Cap Hall. These
steers are one of the best punches ever
be shipped to Terrell Thursday, where
they will be placed on feed.-West
Texas Stockman.
Col Jot Gunter, the big stockman OF
North Texas and also of southwest
"a, 900 acres in Hidalgo county to Mrs.
b. M. King, owner of the celebrated
Santa Gertrudes ranch, which its i'm
mence land and stock holding. The
sum paid was $40, 900 and other con-
siderations.-Alpine Avalanch.
The large export of cattle from Goa.
hula to the United States and Cuba
has caused an unprecedented rise In
the price of live stock. AS high az
$40 has been paid in Saltillo for q
yoke of steers for export to Cuba, and
the price asked for cattle for shipment
to'domestic points is higher than II
| has ever been before.-Two Repub.
| lies.
F. h. Lamberteau arrived last Wed.
nesday night and during the week vi
sited Monk Bros. ranch. Fit. Grant and
Col. Hooker's ranch, lreceiving cattle
| at each place. Mr.. Lam berteau's treat.
ment of the cattlemen is said to have
| been very liberal in view of the fac
| that prices have declined considerably
since he,contracted for the cattle The
stock was shipped Mondsy.--Rsnge
News.
| Fourteen years ago Mr.. Lachiar
Maclean carried TO- 900 ova of English
trout to Cape Colony with the objec,
OF experimenting with the scclimati
zation of that fish in Africa. In spite
of various difficulties and failures the
| experiment proved successful. The
trout having once become established
| hourished, and the island streams o.
the colony are now being gradually
stocked with the fish.
D. M. Dewitt. the we'll known cat
tleman of Fort Worth. returned a few
days ago from Kansas City. Mr.. De-
Witt owns what is known as the Nal.
let herd in Lubbock county, which
ranks among the best bred herds in the
Pan Handle. In December, 90. Mr.
Dewitt sold the calves from off his
ranch, numbering about 800 head, In
Kansas City at $3.50 per head. A
shipment of these same calves sold or
the Kansas City market in July this
year, weighing 1920 pounds and bring
ing $3.50 per hundred. This shows
the Importance of good breeding, ant
that it is almost impossible to pay toe
much for we'll bred calves.-Stock &
Farm Journal.
| A Texas paper has long article OF
the scarcity of Kansas cattle buyers il
Texas this season. and the paper dedu
ces the belief the Kansas feeders art
tr- ing to bluff Texans into believing
that they want few cattle this gear
This is all foolishness. When Kan
sans want cattle they go and get them
The trouble is that nobody
knew what the Kansas sanitary com
mission would do in the matter O
quarantine restrictions, and the com
missioners didn't know themselve
until this week. The action taken a.
that meeting makes it possible FOL
Southern cattle to go to Kansas with
out restriction throughout December
and the movement will doubtless bt
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