El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-17
Live Stock.

ranch, where he has 1900 steers on
feed, that his losses thus far are only
twelve head.-Dallas News.
Sheep in the north part of the terri
tory, where the snow foil has been
heavy, are unable to break through
the snow, aud as a consequence the loss
will be considerable where they are
not taken up and fed.-Opt1c.
Railroad officials. who have kept tab
on the loss of live stock during this
winters cold weather. have summa-
rized q statement, and placed the loss
in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and
the Dakotas at 80 per cent, and In
northwest Texas at so per cent. The
loss in New Mexico is very light.-Las
Vegas Optic.
AS an instance of the money to be
made in cattle in the Pecos Valley, 1t
is stated that W. G. Urton, manager
of the Cass Land & Cattle company,
ors' meeting of his employers in Mis-
souri,, paid over to them on the trip
something like 1925, 900 in dividends on
their investment Eddy Argus.
Common sense suggests that the loss
of range cattle in Texas and the states
north of US, which will be from 30 to
| so per cent, will ten6 to advance the
price. AS the price is down little at
tt present time it would be the part
of wisdom for New Mexican stockmen
to hold their cattle this spring until
they get a good round fgure,-Las
Vegas Optic.
On Tuesday q report came to the Of
ficers here that some cattle had been
killed across the river on the fRrmsc
Sheriff Leavell, Deputy Colliec and
q
with Sheriff Avsry, of Ward county.
succeeded in finding three hides buri-
ed. Two Mexicans we're arrested and
| Jailed at Barstow. and the infOrmant
was brought here and jailed.-Peeos
| Times.
Cattlemen generally are of the opin-
| ion that the weather conditions OF the
present winter will give spring graz
| ing about a month earlier than usual.
AS most of the losses resultant from
hard winter conditions ordinarily &C.
cur at the closing of the winter season.
early spring grass becomes q matter of
very great Importance. That the range
should be able to subsist the animals
upon it even two weeks earlier means
an enormous saving both in the lives of
cattle and in their condition.-Deming
Headlight.
Reports of how cattle on the ranges
have been standing the blizzard that
has prevailed for some days past are
strangely conflicting. In general
way it is reported that losses have been
quite heavy and predictions to that eff
feet have been freely made. In few
individual cases rauchmen have been
named whose losses have been very
considerable. But on the other hand
cattlemen ranching in the sections
where the storm has been the worst
report th at their loss so far has been
trifing-Fort Worth Register.
The Texas Cattle Raisers' associa-
tion will hold the annual meeting at
Fort Worth, Tarraut county, this year
on March IA. This is the great gath
ering of the year, and attracts larger
attendance than all others in the
the recognized cattle center
of North and Central Texas, and for
the time being is visited by stockmen
from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico,
Fort Worth has a way of making stock
men feel at home, and Is always liberal
in the way of entertainments, besides
increasing the interest by a irst-class
fat stock show.-National Live Stock
Reporter.
way between San Marcial and Rose
dale, came up from San Marcial re-
Gently and lodged complaints against
Nose Dedrick and Jack Best for steal
ing and killing his cattle, says the So
zorro Chieftain. He caught these
parties with wagon load of dressed
beef near San Marcial. On being
detected, Dedrick and Jack Best left
the wagon in the road and mounted their
borses and made good their escape
They are we'll known in the country
and will surely be apprehended if they
remain in New Mexico. Nose DERRICK
is brother of Sam DERRICK, formerly
of this place. Jack Best ia an uncle of
Scott Reed, who was killed at Msgda-
lena four years ago, and of Jim Reed,
who figured in an attempted hold-up
two miles north of this place, in Feb
ruary, 1884.
1892 is effectually putting an end to
predictions of the pessimists of the
cattle market, who have been predict
ing a crash in prices. AS matter OF
fact, cattle are lower today than they
have been for twenty years when the
prorata proportion of the number now
in the country is considered. The
comparisons not only speak for them
selves, but prove that cattle are &C.
tually lower than in 1892. In that year
there we're 37,650,O0O head in the
country, in 1898 there were 800, 900
head; while now in this present year,
there are but 20, 200. 900 head. II cat
tie had increased during the past six
years at the same rate they did in the
twenty previous years the number in
the country would now be $4,000, 900
head, in place of trife over half that
number. If similar condition could
be shown of the wheat acreage, it goes
without saying that wheat would rise
to three times the price paid in 1892 or
even now, for that mstter.-Live Stock
Reporter.
A Narrow Escape.