Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-12

l.. s. Osborne, a well known cattle
raiser of Carlsbad, is fattening 200
steers for the spring market.
The Santa Fe road has cut the rate
on cattle shipped out of Silver City to
IS per car. This is Just half the rate
charged last year and the Grant coun-
ty cattle raisers appreciate the cut.
Jerry Simpson was in attendance at
the Panhandle Stockmen's association
at Quanah the other day and gave the
cattlemen many ideas about the way in
which the cattlemen could be protect
ed in congress.
Scott & March, the well known Here
ford breeders of Bolton, Mo-, took 5S
grade Hereford yearling heifers to the
Kansas City market which averaged
500 pounds. and brought $6.25, or an
average of s52.07 a head.
DR.. j. II. Miller, of Paris, Texas, who
has been feeding a number of cattle at
the mill pens, near Carlsbad, made the
last shipment March 29. -Four hundred
head were sold at $50 a head at the
pens to a st. Louis commission firm.
The rest brought $40 per head.
The Carlsbad Argus says that Capt.
w. r. Rayner, of Rocky Arroyo, has
turned his attention to fine stock rails
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high grade Durham Long S COWS which
he will breed to thoroughbred White
face bulls, thus giving him a first class
high grade range animal.
A. G. Joyce, manager of the X. 1. T.
ranch. Eddy county. says it has been
very dry on their range but there has
been plenty of cured grass and with
$50 wind mills, and going at a lively
rate their stock has abundance OF
water. He reports the following sales:
5000 twos for May delivery at SIS,
5000 threes at 1925 0 for May delivery
and tours at $35.
John w. Rush and J. ]. Russell
closed the deal last week for the pur
chase of the A. G. Hawse ranch in
Crow Flat, west of the Guadalupes
says the Carlsbad Argus. The sale In
cludes a fine we'll of water, ample
range and about 200 head of cattle
Messrs. Rush and Russell are now al
the ranch inspecting their purchase
and receiving the stock. Adminlstrato
Ben Sherod conducted negotiations FOL
the Halves estate.
The Denver Field and Farm says
Along the border line between Colo
RADIO and New Mexico, where the herds
perambulate back and forth as the sea
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assessment has been M of great per
plexity to the county officers. 1t ha
been agreed by the assessors repre-
senting each county to divide the take
collected on this class of propert
equally between the W counties II
volved. Many of the stockmen wer
last year compelled to pay full take
on their stock in each county.
The Drover's Telegram, in common
. ing on the stock at the Kansas Cit
yards, says: Among the fine bulls 9
the yards was one that was not offere
to the butchers, although he woul
have met with good bids from all side
The animal in question was a pun
bred Shorthorn, Good Cross, a bu
from the herd of Adair & Ewatt,
Paris, Ky. He Is % months old, an
weighs 1900 pounds, gaining II
pounds per month or three pounds p'
day from the time he was born. III
animal was consigned to j. j. Hage
man. the millionaire cattleman of Re
well, N. M. MI. Hagerman has been
heavy purchaser of blooded stock
late. securing a load of heifers and Sc
eral fine bulls at the recent ShorthoI
sales at this point. The first part
this week a firm in the city shippt
him eight car loads of well bred graz
heifers. and he is not through buyir