El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-04

Live Stock.

1t is reported that q big cattle deal
includes the transfer of over 10000
head of range cattle. - Bisbee Orb.
( Raising fine Herefords and Short
horns of Alfalfa farms is making rapid
progress in the Pecos Valley, and a
great many thousands of dollars are
being, and will continue to be, invest
ed in the business. Reporter.
| It is reported here that person can
cate ranch situated on the northwest
ern line of this state and New Mexico
and cannot find q live cow-that the
recent storm moved them down by
hundreds and piled their bodies
against the wire fence.-Quanah OBJ
server.
| It is probable that there will be
large shipments of cattle and sheep
| from California into Arizona this year.
The lack of rain in that state compels
the stockmeu to look for better graz
| ready there are a mum Der OF stockmen
from that state quietly looking for
| ranges in ArizOna.-Ex.
Bosque Grande Land and Cattle COM
pany, who have stock ranch up the
Pecos river, on which they are raising
ShOrthOrns, has brought ITO acres of
fine irrigated land from the Roswell
Land and Water company this week,
about one and half miles northeast of
town. Capt. James will devote the
tract entirely to the raising of feed fer
his fine cattle.-Roswell Register.
= California cattlemen, who had agents
in Arizona for the purpose of buying
cattle to be shipped to their ranges in
that state, have ordered them home
without making the usual purchases,
as the continued dry weather there
makes it improbable that the range
will be much better than last year.
Generally Pima and other southern
counties sold large numbers of cattle
for shipment to California;
StOckman.
John Lyon, the noted hunter OF
predatory animals, was in town Fri
pray. Not long since he found the
carcass of a calf that had been killed
by wolves. Putting his hounds in the
trail, he went in pursuit, and before
returning home had bagged five
gray wolves. A few days later he
got:two more of the pack since which
time he has seen no further signs of
them. Mr.. Lyon has small bunch OF
cattle on his range near the little
Dragon mountains. His services are
of great value to the stockmen and it
is unfortunate that no bounties are
paid in this county.-Range News.
The purchase of so acres Of land from
the Roswell Land & Water company
recently by James Garrard. the sheep |
grower, out of the Cunning ham tract |
two miles east of town lying directly |
on the north side of Second street ex-
tended, is another Indication of the
growing Importance of the sheep
raising industry here. The sheepman
needs alfalfa pasture for his poor ewes
and lambs. The man who does not
want to run sheep on the range, but
does want to raise mutton lambs for
the market, or full-blood ram lam bs. to
sell to the range owner, must own an
alfalfa farm in order to succeed.-Ros-
we'll Register.
J. F. Williams, inspector for the
Kansas sanitary board at this place,
said that he gathered from cattlemen
who pasture in his state that there
would be a consio erably increased cost
this season in getting cattle to market
from Texas by way of the Kansas
pastures. In the first place the owners
of the pastures have raised the lease
price about 25 cents per acre. The
railroads have increased the feed-in-
rate from $40 to SIS, and in
the regular shipping rate q
cents per hundred. Mr.. Williams es-
Inmates the total increased cost at
about 81 per head, which is q consider
able item in a herd of several thousand
Worth Register.
1t has been many years since fat,
we'll finished Texas cattle have
brought such good prices as those that
have recently been paid for them at
the markets. Very much of this ia due
70 the improvement in the grade of
Texas cattle, while come of 1t ia un-
due to better knowledge of
now to feed. The markets have shown
very clearly that it pays to feed to q
inished condition and those who have
ent their cattle to market too soon
lave found in the bids made that they
lsve hlundered. The men who are
eeding in Texas generally are men of
experience in that department of the
attle industry, and have learned what
o feed, how to feed and when to ship.
Western Ranchman.
The past winter has been an eve
pener to stockmen in all parts of the
ountry, and although the experience
trough which they have just passed
las been a dear one to many, they will
'rOuG Dy IL ID the future. Ibis winter
las fully demonstrated the fact that,
aking it year in and year out, large
erds cannot be run on the range the
ear round, without ruinous loss, in
laces where heretofore this has been
he custom. The past winter has been
o disastrous to the large herds of Col
RADIO, Montana, Wyoming and the
)akotas. in the north, and Texas and !
indian Territory in the south, that
many will quit this losing game. The
age will gladly be occupied by the
NJ aller stockman, who will take up his
attic and feed DURING the stormy