Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-11
STOCK SHIPMENTS
There Is Great Activity In the
Movement Of Cattle From the
Territory.
VERY GOOD LAMBING SEASON
The Santa Pe Railroad Reports Scarcity
Of Stock Oars-A Big Flock of
Sheep Was Sold Iu Eddy
County.

Fifteen cars of cattle were shipped
from Carlsbad last Friday.
Sidney Briner, of Roswell, was at
Carlsbad last week to purchase sheep.
The M. E. brand Of horses at Rincon
have been sold to Mr.. Owen Of White
Oaks
w. C. Kendall, of Roswell, went to
Kansas last week with a train load of
cattle.
Rogers & Fullen, of Carlsbad. sold
their flock of 1921 sheep to George H.
| Webster.
The Bloom Cattle Company will ship
about 5000 steers, twos and up. from
Roswell to Montana by the 1st of June.
The lambing season all over the terri
tory is reported to be exceptionally
good. The flocks in New Mexico have
been increased almost a million head
during the past few weeks.
There is no mistaking the fact, a fact
that is clearly apparent to all, that the
Pecos valley is on the move The cattle
business is the moving center, and 1t
will continue to be so as long as the
present generous policy OF the railroad
Is in force.
George H. Webster, formerly part
ner of Armour, is now visiting the Pecos
valley. He holds large interests there,
and is apparently gratified with the
outlook. Aside from his primary in
vestment, he has expended some 1000
this season on his alfalfa and fruit
farm. His son. George H. Webster, Jr.,
has made decided success of the large
holdings that he now controls.
From all indications it does not ap-
pear that the Pecos valley is to be left
out in the cold world this season, so far
at least as its cattle shipments are con-
cerned. During the year, at the very
lowest estimate. 100000 head will
leave the valley for the northern pas
early stage nearly 5000 head have been
shipped, mostly feeding cattle, for the
north and Kansas.
The P. V. & N. E. Ry. has had much
character Of the cattle in the southwest.
The cattle growers that have followed
in it's wake have been. as rule, repre-
sentative breeders, and have introduced
only graded stock. Many of these cat
tie, the product Of these breeding farms,
will reach Denver this fall, probably
more next year. Denver is natural
market for the product of the Pecos
valley, not only for It's cattle. but its
fruit
General Agent Houghton, of the San
ia Fe system, has just finished tour
among the cattlemen in southern and
western New Mexico and eastern Ari-
zona. He says the movement Of cattle
Is very heavy this year, but scarcity of
stock cars is retarding the business.
The Santa Fe has furnished over 400
cars to Mexican roads recently. and
other roads have supplied equally as
many, which has about taken up all the
surplus. leaving the roads short Of the
recent unexpected demand.
The spring shipments from Silver
City are we'll under way. The Lyons &
Campbell company shipped thirty cars
of yearlings to La Junta, Colo, for pas
ture. The same company made another
shipment of sixty cars this week. w.
w. Tuttle, who has bought the greater
portion of the northern Grant county
stock this year, shipped fifty cars. He
is shipping to Kingsley, Kan. The
Crowfoot company loaded ten cars for
pasturage on its Colfax county range.
Some 5000 head of cattle came
| through Carlsbad the other day
from away down in Chihuahua, bound
for Nebraska. The difference between
these "dogies' and New Mexico stock
was noticeable They looked like ami
mated boneyards. Still it must be said
of the Mexico cattlemen that they are
spending money fast to turn their
"longhorns" into "shorthorns." and
they will do it, too. They are now I'M
porting high priced bulls In car load
lots into the chihuahua territory, and
the effect will be seen in time. 1t may
take year or two. but when 1t does
come the present "razorback" Of Mexi-
co will be as hard to locate as the old
time 'longhorn" that used to infest the
Staked Plains.