El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-15
Live Stock.


g shipped carload of fat hogs to the ST
r Louis markets.
r G. Waltney of Bonhsm has 1000 hes'
a of steer cattle at his pens west of Cor
r sicans, which he is feeding for marke
o on cotton seed meal and hay.
? English and Scotch farmers are sait
!. to be enjoying higher prices for thei
cattle as q result of curtailed ship
: ments of American beef.-Chicagt
! Drovers' Journal.
The first seven days of April thi
year as comparedswith the same time
4 last year show decrease in the re
q ceipts of cattle of 2, 169 head, an in
q crease of 1,O7O hogs and 1, 451 sheep
=, Denver Stockman.
W, J. Cox, one of the cattle kings of
old Mexico, has undertaken to move his
immense herds consisting of more than
81 COO head, up into Colorado. There
: will be eco car loads of them, and the
, Santa Fe is to do the hauling.-Ex
change,
A. J. Hart, q stockman, whose home
is in the Davis mountains south of Pc
cos, disposed of his entire stock of cat
tie to T. II, Besuchsmp for SS. 600. We
are glad ID learn that Mr.. Hart will
remain a Citizen of Reeves county
Pecos Times.
John W. Lowell sold to J. o. Kemp
of Eagle, Colo, eleven pure bred Short
horns at prices ranging from 800 to
$3.50 per head. It won't take but
couple more sales Ike this to clean up
the lot Mr.. Lowell brought to this mar
ket last week.-Denver Stockman.
The general impression among our
stockmen is that ordinary yearlings
this spring will go at S14 to S14.50,
good medium grades at S15 to $15. so,
| ten per cent cut. A few of the top
punches may bring perhaps slightly
the rise of $16.-Sterling News.
r. G. Brady, the Tucson cattle brok-
err, is reported to have purchased 5000
head of cattle from the ranches of Ra
mon Sot , and Rosario Brena. The cat
tie are - be delivered in Tucson May
Is. The ice having been broken it is
believed that more sales will soon fol-
low.-Range News.
A number of the big Northwestern |
ranchmen are in the sSouth endesvor-
ing to buy young cattle. Unless the |
Southern cattle owners have modified |
their veiws relative to values since the |
Denver meeting it is quite probable
that the Northern cowmen will make |
very limited purchases.-South St
Joseph Journal.
A car load of beef cattle sold by J.
L. Cant II the J. b. Nations Meat
from Phoenix Sunday night. This in
cident rather heads off the statement
made by buyers for the California
markeA3 that it is immaterial to them
they buy Salt River cattle
or not, since they can get all they want
in REGISTRATIONS Citizen.
Recently q carload of horses brought
from the Salt River vally have been
shipped to Hermosillo, by Mr.. Andrew
J. Weinert. There were two stations
and six geldings-all blooded stock
Mr.. weinert had sold several of them
n advance. and.the others he took.on a
venture. The duties on them were
about fifty dollars per head.-Nogales
Oasis.
The loss of cattle in the range coun-
ry is no doubt over estimated. It will
ave very little effect in influencing
he price of stock cattle, as the rule is
rue in almost every instance where
erious disaster follow, that the de-
nand is at once affected;no matter bow ,
'laiu the reason may be against such
ction. the fact remains.-Sioux Stock
ournal.
un his spring shipments of Utah stock
rs and feeders. He unloaded twenty
arloads, and by noon half of them had !
ound buyers. The cattle were in very
God condition, notwithstanding an un- =
ecessarily long trip. Freight traffic on J
ne Western lines is chock up,s owina;to
ne long tie-up by storms and stuff g.
oming this way must suffer a.d clay for o
time yet-Denver Stockman.
The officials of the Cattle Raiser's 7
ssociatiOn are in receipt of informa-
IN, f<,f hn 10 ha< u | ,
the inspectors for the association at
t. Louis, has recovered eighty head
cattle that were worth "a ,OOO TIE
attle had been stolen in fancy county
aney county Missouri about a wear
90 and had passed from hand TO hand
it'll they came to market.-The
took & Farm Journal.
The recent cattlemen's convention
eld at Galveston consumed a great
>rtion of its time in discussing and
aiming for an experiment station for :.
ade in cattle feeding and agriculture.
be lower house of the legislature n,
rned down the project last week by N
ling to appropriate funds for the
uipment and operating expenses.
ne cattlemen of the Lone Star State -
ould see to 1t that there is change \
the next legislature and should -
low before election how the vote will
and.-Drovers' Telegram.
James McLymont, Texas king sheep i
I'D, residing in Val Verde county, n
IS here last week. Mac said that he lE
'uld 'begins!hearing about AprillO and W
'uld finish sometime about the 18th. Y
; will have about 100000 head of '
eep ito shear this year Sheep in
stern Texas are not in. the best DOS L.
lie condition owing to the protracted
0uth. He has something like 81, 900