Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-29
LOSS TO SHEEPnEN.
Snow and Hail Caused Some Damage In
Lincoln Oounty-Other Notes.

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| The Pecos Valley railway has played
havoc with the Texas & Pacific cattl,
shipments.
David Howell and R. F. Barnett, O
Roswell, received eighteen cars of cat
tie from Mexico.
John Hightower sold 100 head of hi:
Angora goats to A. Brown, of Nogal
at $420 per head.
F. c. Griswold, of Trinidad, Colo.
purchased from D. w. Glenn, Of Lincolr
county. 10000 head of sheep.
Over 100000 in checks were signed
on one day at the Hotel Schlitz, Carls.
bad, in payment of cattle delivered tc
stockmen In Eddy county.
Rush & Russell, OF Eddy county, have
disposed Of the $500 head of sheep re-
Gently purchased from John Saldum-
behre. to Charles de Bremond, Chaves
county sheepman.
w. r. Lovelace, a sheepman from the
east side of the Captains, was at Capt.
tan in search of sheep stolen from his
ranch last February. While at Captain
Mr.. Lovelace identified as his the herd
Of 2SO head that man named Burls
had been running on Eagle Creek for
Joseph Blackwell. Blackwell turned
the sheep over with the statement that
he bought them from a man last win
ter on the range between the Gray and
Captain mountains.
The snow storm in the mountains and
cold rain and hail in the valleys caused
great loss to sheepmen of Lincoln coun-
ty on May Is. Leslie Ellis. of Lincoln,
lost forty head of fine Angora goats /:
Martin Chaves lost LAT head Of goats
and 1870 sheep at Picacho; Joseph Tatti,
eighty fine Angora goats at his Tucson
ranch twelve miles from White Oaks;
D. w. Glenn and Juan Chaves Tru-
jillo lost heavily at Raventon. Such
losses have been recorded never before
in Lincoln county so late in the season,
and must be attributed to early shear
ing.
Following is list OF the shipment
from the Carlsbad and Lake View stock
pens for the past two weeks.
A. B. Robertson, Hat ranch, about
1900 head to various points In the north.
west; loaded at Lake View.
R. s. Benson, Florence, 500 head to
]. r. Hopkins, Custer, Mont, loaded at
Carlsbad pens.
May l2-J. H. James, four cars of
yearlings, to Ezra Fleming, Rifle, Colo,
four cars to Henry Lloyd, Rifle; two
cars two's, to John Gilleen, Burdick,
Kas.; two cars to Henry Pope, Burdick;
total, 394 head. Loaded at Carlsbad
pens.
May 14-Sam Simon Cattle company
to Clay, Robinson & Co., one car beeves
to Kansas City and one to Denver; ten
cars Of yearlings to Brennan, s. d.
Loaded at Carlsbad pens. T.
May 15--Hat company, III cars to
Wyoming points; loaded at Lake View.
One car Of horses went through to
Sheridan, Wyo.
May 16-Twenty-three cars by C. B.
Willtngham to Moorcroft, Wyo.; six
cars to Summit, Kas.; loaded at Carls-
bad; SO cars by Hat company to Orn
Junction, Wyo.. loaded at Lake View
pens.
May l7-Twenty-hye cars, Willing
ham to Moorcroft, loaded ut Carlsbad
pens: A cars, Hat company to Orn
Junction, loaded at Lake View pens.
May 1s-Twenty-one cars, Willing
ham to MOorcroft; Is cars, r. 8. Ben
son. to Orn Junction, loaded 1T Carlsbad
pens.
May ,e-One car Of pure Hereford
bulls, R. 8. Benson, TO Whitewood, s.
D.; Is cars, WillInghsm to Rapids City,
8. D., loaded at Carlsbad pens.
Following is . partial list Of ship
ments made over the Northeastern since
May l.
May 2-Ten cars from Pecos to Esk-
ridge, Kas., shipped BY johnson Bros.;
~ cars from Canyon City to Strong City,
Kas., by Frank Lower.
May 3-Nine cars from Canyon City
to Strong City, by Lower; cars to BUR-
dick, Kas., by Lower; II cars to Rosalle,
Kas., by Lower, II to Hilltop, Kas., by
w. Drummond; 10 cars TO Quanah from
Bovina, by Wallace Goode.
May Fifteen cars from Mexico to
Claiming, Tex, 30 to Bazaar, Kas., by
Scoggins a Brown. s
May 5-Twenty-four cars 10 Bazaar,
Kas., by Scoggins 4 Brown.