El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-27
Live Stock.

There are many thefts of horses and
cattle reported from various parts of
the state OF Sinaloa, Mexico.-Mexfcan
Herald.
The Mound Spring Cattle company
has been Incorporated with headousr-
ters at White Oaks, N. M, with q
capital stock of $50, OOO.-White oaks
Eagle.
A large sheep dipping and shearlnR
plant is being built by the Santa Fe
600 sheep, and will be finished this sea-
sOD.-EX.
Reports from Western Colorado in
and they will be of better quality and
condition than any sent out OF the
state. The thoroughbred blood is
commencing to show.-Ex.
Not all cattle with slight tuberculo.
sis should be killed. A rigid inspec-
tion should be made imperative, but to
kill or even shut out of territory
every animal that shows the faintest
sign of the disease is too drastic.-Chi-
cago Drovers' Journal.
George P. Scholefield, stock inspect
or for Pima county, Ariz., Gays that
| the shipments of cattle for the fiscal
year, out of Tucson. will aggregate
1850, while the past season will show
the departure of $1,000 head and ex-
elusive of the shipments from Walls and
PantanO.-Ex.
Over 1000 900 pounds of wool has
been shipped out of Roswell this year,
while 800, 900 pounds more will go, says
the Santa Fe New Mexican. Only q
little over LOO pounds was shipped
last year. This great increase In wool
shipments was caused by the compile
ton of the Pecos Valley railroad
Roswell Record.
When the big packers, like Swift
and Armour, GO to buying up large
ranches and stocking them with cat
tie, it should set the cowman to think
ing. They evidently see shortage in
cattle for the future, and are making
cattle when this shortage occurs.-
| yorktown News.
There will be rich ranges this fall in
many places in the Northwest where
cattle have not roamed for two seasons.
Capital ought to send out her skirmish-
ers and look the country over. There
will be more money made In the cattle
| business in the next five years than
| there has been in the last ten years, by
long wRys.-Denver Stockman.
The Texas cattle syndicate was too
big an undertaking.: It might be said
it "died a-bornin'.'' An Austin press
dispatch says the promoters have
thrown up the sponge. The stringent
antitrust law of Texas Is in a great
measure responsible for the failure,
and the proposed capitalists would not
close the options that had been placed.
I-Texas Ranohman.
| W. 81. Jennins, of Texas, has pur-
chased from Messrs. 81. B. Spaulding,
Clarence w. Turner and D. 81. Middle
ton, OF Muscogee, I. T., IL, 600 head of
beef cattle, the price paid being $780,
600. This is the largest cattle transsc-
ton made this year in the Indian terri
tory. The cattle are being held and
fedin the Creek nation for shipment
to market this fall.-Ex.
Frank Arson, of Coleman. Texas,
sold last Tuesday 1899 crop OF bull
calves about 500, at e25 per head Dec
EN- Der LIST delivery. This is the high
est price for that number and class of
cattle that has ever known to have
been paid in Texas. This sale, which
cy to boom the cattle business in this
section to great extent.-Pecos
Times. -
A trade in high grade cattle is re-
ported that is of general interest. It
was between Messrs. Ike West of San
Antonio and Pleasant M. Butler of
Kennedy, Texas, in which the latter
sold between 800 and 400 head OF high
grade Shorthorn cattle. between and
4 years. They are Durhams and out of
q herd OF the finest bred cattle in the
northwestern part of the state.-Deni-
son Herald.
The total Mexican live stock impor-
tations for the first six months of this
year amounted to SO, 1872 cattle, 1,14S
sheep, 16 goats and 81 swine. During
the month of June 6,831 cattle were re-
ceived, as compared with 1927 in June,
1898. In June Kansas received
for grazing 3,495, Montana 629, Cali
New Mexico 1914 and Texas 20; import
ed slaughter, 145.-Two Republics.
From all over the range country
come reports of a poor lam bling Sheep
Breeder. In Montana and Wyoming
the percentage of lambs to ewes bred
runs from so to IS in each district, as
against so and 95 per cent last year.
In Texas the per cent of lambs runs
from 80 down to as low as 80. In other
| range states the lamb crop is far below
last years figures. All this means an
aggregate shortage of several millions
of lam s in the great 1amb-producing
districts of the west. How far this
may affect the price of feeding lambs
next fall and the latter market supply
| and prices of lambs cannot now be
be more or less serious and far-reach-
ing, influencing the values of older and
| we1ghtier muttops as we'll.
| London Live Stock Journal: In his
report on the agricultural returns for