El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-20
Live Stock.


There will be q shortage of good cat
tie of from 1000, 600 to l, $50, 900 while
the shortage Of all cattle will reach
about 100000. The receipts at the
leading stockyards and from outside
sources, chief among which was the
rush of two years ago OF calves anu
available cattle on to the market pc
cause of the high price then prevail
ing. Corn was also cheap. The boom
of wheat last year also caused boom
in corn, and that produce rose TO
price where it hardly paid the western
stock owner to hold, at Soc per bushel
the grain which he purchased at TUG
and l5c per bushel in the lower market
or to convert such high priced 1000
into beef at such an extra cost OF
producing it at the same time taking
the chance of that beef dying or being
condemned for a subsequent infection.
Under these circumstances the
cattle were turned back TO the grass,
and the corn FASTENED to the elevators
or held for higher price still. Many
western stock growers who could
hitherto be relied upon for high
grade of prime hand fed cattle, are
short on these even at the high price
now paid on the hoof. Some of them
who purchased corn two years ago at
the low price of 1Oc and 13c bushel
and fed it to cattle until the market
for this grain leaped past 25c and up to
33c per .bushel, naturally take com
mercial view of their two marketable
stocks-corn and csttle-and seriously
ask themselves the question whether
it is not more profitable to sell this
corn and trust to other foods for their
grade of meat. Some of the largest
stockmen have as mach as 40, 600
bushels of this cheaply purchased
two years old corn stored. At 13c per
bushel this cost Sl6,OOO. AT
49, it will sell for SAC, 300 ct profit CT
S26, 400. The rancher justly nalts and
figures the profits on meat and decides
generally that it will not pay him to
feed the grain. To this cause alone is
probably due the large storage on good
beef, and the present Increase In the
herd of grassers. This condition OF the
ranges again verifies the old truth, of
high corn, poor beef. The corn market
out-travels the growth of meat, or the
meat market, as the cattle crop Is not
entirely cut off, nor as suddenly in
creased by seasons as Is the crop OF
growing corn. The supply sand de-
mandof both are regulated by different
laws. just now it is high corn poor
beef, q great shortage in the quality
of the latter, and a shortage in gras-
sers.-National Provisioner.
While sheep owners are petitioning
the government to permit them to pas
ture their f1ocks on the federal reser-
vations, the remarks made by j. j.
Doyle in q paper read by him at Por-
terville are aprOpos. He said: III 1t
is true that the sheep industry is very
largely responsible for the destruction
of our forests, which means the de-
a proposition looking to the welfare OF
ourselves and our children, to the saw
ing of our farms, our orchards. our
vineyards; in short, all that we hold
dear, if we expect to cont nue. to live
here, we would better purchase this L
per cent industry and ship it to an
other country, and thereby save our
homes. Los Angeles Times.
The new adjustment of the prices for
Texas cattle, as reported in the dis
patches for Fort Worth is received
with great satisfaction by the cattle
men around these parts. Much OF the
anxiety as to the stocking OF the prom
ised prolific ranges OF the north has
been relieved. The heavy winter SHOWS
will produce an abundance of grass for
summer and fall, an opportunity the
cattle grower was very anxious to take
of, but he saw no possible
chance, through past experience, OF
making any money out of his invest
ment if compelled to pay the prices he
did last year and the year before. Tex
as raisers are doing the right thing
and have bound stronger the ties that
bind together the cattlemen of the two
sectiOns.-Denver StOckmRn.
DR.. Rice Steddom, government live
stock inspector, located at Kansas CT
ty, and an attache of the bureau OF
animal industry, received an order
from Washington directing him to re-
port at once at Washington. prepared
to 60 to Porto Rico on a special mis-
sion for the bureau. 1t is believed |
that the government is preparing to
ship live cattle from Texas to Cuba
and Porto Rico and DR.. SteddOm is
to investigate conditions be-
cause of his knowledge of the Texas |
cattle and peculiar conditions sur
them. DR., Steddom was |
here attending the convention.-Den
YER Stockman.
Signs of approaching trouble be- |
tween cattle and sheepmen are already |
visible. A man was in town today |
from the eastern part of this county to
seek legal protection from encrOach- |
ments on his premises by large sheep |
owner. The cOwman had a piece of
land fenced which he used for pasture |
and for watering his stock. He says
that the sheepman cody informed him
that be would be compelled to use his
enclosure for watering his sheep
Mexican cattle raisers are improv-
ng their breeds by importing blooded
tock from the United States. Last
Tear nearly a hundred Thousand dollars
worth of cattle were sold to Mexican
buyers, more than double the entire
ales of both previous years com bined.