El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-25
Live Stock.

| Arrival of western cattle in Chicago
during the past season were 1873, FOG
head against 191 $40 in 1898.
The wool growers of Carbon county,
Wyoming, are circulating petition to
congress in Oppoeition to cessiOn of arid
lands to the states.
The demand for stockers and feeders
on the Denver market is as good as
ever, and the best stock brings as good
prices as at the river.
Sheep shearing will begin jan. 20
and there are some 200, 900 in the
valley and ad jacent foot hills to be
shorn. Shear!ng will begin at Goddard,
N. M.
Reports say that q large plumber Of
| cattle have died near Grandfalls, on
the Pec0s. J. r. Boyd, formerly of
Sterling county, has lost his entire
| herd.
The price of wood Is good and the
clip will be heavy this year as sheep
are in good condition and most of the
wool ia free from dirt sor burs.-
Phoenix Enterprise.
The cattle stealing cases in Morgan
| county have created the bovine sensa-
tion of the week through the convic.
tion OF the Kinkles, the best known
men In the county.
Will @. Bornes of Navajo county,
Arizona, has secured 81, 600 acres of
| land from the Maxwell grant in north
| ern New Mexico and is moving all of
his stock to that place.
According to calculation made by
Field and Farm, there are only 365
head of beef cattle in the United States
to each 1000 population as compared
with 573 head 1882.
| Middle Park Times: It is reported
that Leopold Miller, well-known
German ranchman residing near
Coulter, has become insane and has been
taken to Denver for treatment.
| When cattle are living on a diet of
dry grass or hay they are subject to
constipation, and salt, plenty of salt
before them all the time ia natures
great remedy for the trouble.
An Ohio breeder writes: eft is al.
most impossible to find competent
stock feeders. No young men are pre-
pairing for it, 1t is the most needed
and would be the best paid of all sorts
of farm labor"
The latest about George B., Loving
and his cattle syndicate is that he has
been in Kansas City, where he met
representatives of both sides of the
| and the money men.
F. Q. Mckinney has sold his ranch
near Mammoth to John N. Brown of
Tucson, and will move his cattle
about March 1st to the Riley ranch,
near Croton springs, which he has late
ly purchased from Thos. Steele.
II is generally conceded that the
price OF market cattle last year showed
an increase of S5 to 81 head more
than the year previous, which In the
aggregate means more than a million
dollars profit for western ranchmen.
Sioux City Times: The average
weight OF the 4, 14 hogs received on
this market on Tuesday was 24S
pounds. as compared with 26O pounds
last week, 283 pounds Q month ago and
1851 pounds for the corresponding day
last year.
| A great sheep sale has just been
made in Wyoming. d. e. Csstiday of
Rawlins has sold his entire range sheep
interests to Edward Haggarty and
Robert Deal. The price was IS a head
for everything except 200 head of bucks
which are valued at $40 head.
| Z. A. Golden, of Remington, Kan,
marketed Q carload of Arizona steers
| In the Denver market, fattened to $40
pounds in his feed lots, that sold 1t
81 SO per cwt. and two carloads of dog
gies at 1885. Mr.. Golden also market
ed carload OF, pigs.
| Deming Headlight: Sheep herders
| are killing cattle in Socorro county
| merely to obtain their hides. Another
| strong argument in favor of leasing
| the public lands, and SO doing away
! with this most Objectionable class. In
the interim, the killing of q score or
two of sheep herders might have q
L mod affaot