El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-24
Live Stock.


Persons very close to Nelson Morri:
deny the rumor that he has purchased
the Omaha Packing company's plant
J. w. Moseley has shipped eigh
trains of cattle, about 5000 head, from
Lampssas, Texas, to Silverton, KAN
Elk.
Cattle dealers at Bouhsm, Texas
report that cattle in great numbers arr
dying of blsckleg in the Indian Terri
tory, across Red river, not far from
BOnham. -Ex.
Llano Live Stock company sold l, lO'
heifers last week to Keel1ne Bros. o
Wyoming at $3.50. They will be de
Hvered at Amarillo June 1.-Wes'
Texas Stockman.
T. G, Jacobs, cattleman of the Ca
pitan mountains, recently purchased a
lot of wolf traps, and in ten days
caught ten lobos. The.skins were worth
S5 each.-RosweIl, N. M, Record.
Something like 1900, 600 horses are
owned in Texas, but great number
are of little value. Texas soil and eli
mate are we'll adapted to raising the
finest breeds and great progress is be-
ing made.-Ex.
Receipts of sheep so far this month .
compared with May last year, show
loss of over 10000 head. There has
been q slight decrease in cattle, and
hogs show good increase.
Journal StOckman.
J. N. Brown made q shipment Of
1,221 head of cattle from Tucson, Ari-
IONA, last Saturday, being the first
shipment made from that point this
season. They went to Denver, Broker
R. G. Brady was expecting an importa-
tion OF Sonora cattle this week from
Sonora.-Denver Stockman.
The new game law in Colorado for
bids the floating of ties or timber down
any stream containing fish. This will
give the ranchmen along the streams
the protection they have long wanted,
as the tie floating teas out their head
gates and fences and Injuries their
ditches.-Denver Stockman.
Mr.. Pomeroy Of Pawnee. Oklahoma,
recently arrived in Deming with ], 900
mares of the 1O-quarter-circle brand,
he having bought them from the J. B.
Hagrin company. 1t is his intention
to drive the mares overland to Okla
breeders; the price paid WAS $3.50 per
bead.-Ex.
Indications now are that the May
north will not be as heavy as usual,
owing to the lateness of the season and
the slowness of the grass. Most of the
big shippers are putting off shipping
until June ], and the big movement
will come during the last week of May
and the first week in June.-Ex.
AT Del Rio, Arizona, in q day or two
the shearirg of q, 900 head of sheep
will commence. About thirty shearers
will be given employment. and about
1000 tons of wool will be clipped from
the backs of the bleaters. The sheep |
belong to various owners. Among them
are mentioned Messrs Sterling. Nc
Crakin Smith and John Stephens
Elk.
The Reynolds Land and Cattle COM
pany has, since the first of the year.
added seventy-five thoroughbred Here
ford bulls to its herds near Charming,
Texas, and twenty-five more are now
in quarantine in New Jersey. Fifty of
these bulls are from the estate of
Frederick William Stone in Canada.
who4was one of the pioneers in the
e reford business in that country
Denver Stockman.
Sheepmen ara rather discouraged
over the low prices being offered for
wool. Indications are not favorable
for even last seasons prices and with
the thousands of tons that had been
held over awaiting higher prices it will
be an uphill job to get the price any
higher than it is at present. One re-
suit will be freer offerings of lambs
next fall for the feed lots.-Denver
Stockmap.
A Sioux City authority notes that
during the month of April there were
sos cars of stockers and feeders ship
ped to the country from that market,
against COB cars in march 436 during
February. OF the total Nebraska re-
ceived the largest number, 227 cars,
being consigned to points in that state
South Dakota came next with 80 cars
9 cars, Minnesota 6 cars and
North Dakota l car.-Ex,
The demand for thoroughbred bulls
or the range seems to be on the in
crease rather than the decrease. Sales
>f registered stock are made almost
Tally on this market and all are for the
'anges. The new bull law, requiring
nigh grade bulls on the range, is a
good thing. but it seems likely to be
by the stockmen of the
tate.-Denver Stockman.
Cattle are higher priced this spring,
,ut they are being purchased Just the
anne aud plenty of them too. Not
lay passes but what lunches of cattle
re crossed and driven out to the
anges west of here. The movement is
. little later than usual on account of
he late spring, but it is getting start
ID in good shape now and we look for a
'reat food of stock within the next
hree weeks.-Sioux Stock Journal.
There is peculiar disease among
he cattle in Gonzales county, Texss,
hat is killing them. When they take
he disease they begin to droop and
Ose appetite and in about five days
hey begin to swell under the throat
nd stomach and before they die,