El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-23
Live Stock.

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Panhandle stockmcn have COM
menced to feed their cattle.
West Texas Is in it with fat cattle,
grass waving knee high and bunch
ing.
Sixty two carloods of hogs in six
days Is q pretty good run for the Den
yer market.
Exported butter has recently been
brought back from England on account
of the better market here.
The annual convention of the Okla
homa Live Stock association will begin
February 13 st FL Reno, Okla.
The shipment of hay from Phoenix
to southeast Arizona continues to be
source of profit to the producer.
Stock and feeding cattle are in good
demand at Kansas City, all the offer
ings selling freely st steady prices.
There are over 300, 900 sheep now
grazing on the ranges south OF the
pipe-clad northern counties In Ar1Z-
ons.
Sheriff Ruster of Pswnee county,
Oklahoma, has been relieved OF his Of
fee. being accused of receiving brides
from cattlemen.
A wool grower, who is also an ex-
pansiOni,t. declares that the Philip
pine Islands will furnish market for
$50, 600, 600 worth of wool annually.
The cattlemen, like great many
other people, are interested in the out
come of the war now in progress be-
tween the British and the Beers in
South Africa.
The Private Wolf Bounty association
of Cheyenne has. decided to pay a
bounty of $50 on gray wolves only.
Black wolves or hslf breeds will posi-
lively not be accepted.
The National Live Stock association
yesterday demonstrated, In Its action
on the leasing question, that it is at all
times prepared TO meet condition |
when confronted by it. /
The Utah state board of equaliZa- |
ton has assessed sheep in Logan cOun-
ty at $50 per head, as against 81 last
year; range cattle at SIS per head, and |
dairy COWS at $50 TO $50.
New Mexico Live Stock Champion:
Colonel William Curtis, of the DE- |
ranch, reports his cattle doing well. |
He wants congress to pass a lease law |
for New Mexico grazing lands.
]. F. Wilson was in from Born burg |
has been so favorable thus far that e
and other castlemen have been com
mencing to feed.-Meeker Herald.
Grass in Southwest Texas is better |
thsn for years, and castlemen are 'feel- !
ing their oats" Abundant rains have
fallen and the rainfall for the season |
has been greater than was ever known.
Rsnchmen and stockmen in |
county have organized a
telephone company. Incorporation
papers were fled with the secretary.
1t is styled the Eauchmsn's Mutual
Telephone company.
An Alliance. Neb.. exchange says a
good local demand may be expected /
for saddle horses in few months. 1t
is thus each year. The majority OF
rapchmen find themselves short on
saddle horses every spring.
Feeders have gone skyward again:
the supply has been light at the three
leading markets and demand good. In
fact, feeders are selling for as much
per hundred as at any time last sea-
Pioneer Grip.
The blackleg scare is gaining
ground, and apparently with good
reason, several head of cattle having
died with the disease in Twenty-miie
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the local cattle owners to prevent the
further spread of the disease.
A petition has been circulated and
signed at Casper, Wyo.,
against sta tie ownership of lauds, the
petitioners holding that it is not in &C.
cord with public policy nor to the best
interests of the people TO have leased
lands through state ownership.
Arizona Grange News: Iu case
ease law should be passed by congress.
only actual settlers should have the
leasing privilege and the acreage
which might be leased by a person,
irm or company should be limited, just
rs the size of homeste al is limited.
With 5000, 900 head of cattle within
her bord ers, worth at least SIPS, 000,-
100; with hogs, horses and sheep worth
1t least S75 900, 600 more, Texas ia pro- |
,ided with fund of 5000 per year to
upport live stock veterinary de-
,artment. The Legislators are not the
light stuff. {