Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-08-01
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It Is Being Made with New Mexico
Cattle in Warren County,
Illinois.
BIGRANCHlN COLFAXCOUNTY
It Is Situated on the Maxwell Grant
Charles Springers Herd Of Fine 0at-
tle-News Notes of Interest to
Stockmen. .-...

An interesting experiment in cattle
I feeding Is being made with bunch OF
700 steers from the Ell Captain Cattle
Company's ranches sent from New
| Mexico to Monmouth, Warren county
ILL., The Chicago Drovers' Journal says
These cattle were bought in their 3.
year-old form last fall by c. p. Avenell
Of Eleanor, ILL.,, and have been full FED
on corn since November. They went in
to the feed lot at about 900 pounds av-
erage, and will come out on the market
averaging about 1850 pounds. This is
about the first experiment of this kind
in Warren county, and the result has
been watched by cattle dealers with
considerable interest. A breeder look
ing and well-fed lot of cattle will not
come on the market this fall. They are
thick-fieshed, of fine quality and take
on high finish, and fully demonstrate
the practlcability of bringing range cat
tie of southeastern New Mexico and
the Panhandle of Texas direct to Ill-
nois feed lots
Capt. William French, of Silver City,
probably the heaviest individual cattle
owner in the territory, purchased last
year 121, 900 acres of grazing land from
the Maxwell land grant people, in Col
fax county, lying between the Santa Fe
tracks at Springer on the east and as
far as Cimarron on the west, ard in
Guiding the lower Ponil, Carrisos and
Vermejo valleys The French cattle are
considered well-graded range stock, TO-
600 head of which have been brought up
from the lower pastures near Silver
City and put on this new range, which
affords excellent grazing, plenty of wa
ter and easy access to the railroad. Mr..
French's intentions are to give up his
southern range and transfer the re-
naming 10000 head of cattle to these
new pastures as soon as they can be
shipped. Owing to the scarcity OF rain
and shortness Of grass in the old pas
ture, the stock has been in no condition
for shipment, the last consignment re-
sulting in heavy loss.
William Woods, stock raiser well
known throughout Grant nj Socorf
counties, states that the drouth in east
ern and northern Arizona is something
fearful. The Blue river is dry for miles,
something never known before, and
food is scarce. Cattle are dying by the
h,,r in n1a ha
tlemen are cutting down the cotton
wood and oak trees along the river for
food for their cattle, thus trying to sus
tain life in them till it rains.
One of the finest grades Of cattle in
the west is conceded to Charles Spring
er, of Colfax county, who has branded
900 head of fine Hereford calves this
spring A pick of 400 heifers he expects
to retain for breeding purposes, and the
remainder he will place on the market,
securing for the same the good round
sum of SIS to $25 per head for these six
months old calves The pick of his bull
calves bring the handsome price of $40
and upward.
The cattle raisers of Eddy and Chav-
es counties are much disturbed over the
order to remove all drift" fences from
the public lands. They contend that
these drift fences protect both the large
and small cattle herds by preventing
the drifting of cattle and the conse-
quent loss. Efforts are being made to
induce the interior department to re-
scind the recent order.