Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-05
STOCK NOTES

Aubry Gist, of the Guadalupe Mount
aims. Eddy county, shipped 1,6OO
pounds of mohair from Carlsbad.
George NJ. Slaughter left Roswell for
Chihuahua to visit Governor Ahumada
in reference to the fair and live stock
show and sale to be held there the
coming fall.
". c. Hyde. C. w. Hyde and M. E.
Hyde. of near Three Rivers, Otero
county, have sold their entire herd Of
400 graded cattle and will go into the
sheep business.
J. J. Hagerman, of South Springs,
Chaves county. has purchased twenty
nine head of prize Shorthorn stock
from H. p. Groom, of the Texas Pan
handle. The price paid was $4,000.
S. II. Biting, of Carlsbad, represent
ing various Pecos Valley cattle outfits,
last week sold 1900 2 and 3-year-olds
to b. G. Ash and Carson Williams, of
Pierre, s.. D., and L. A. Allen, of Kan
sas City.
George Gresham, of Colorado, has
been in New Mexico buying steers,
yearlings, twos and threes, TO be de-
livered in May. He says prices are
about the same as last year and cattle
are in good condition.
Oscar Hyde, of Three Rivers, Otero
county, sold his White Mountain ranch
and his entire stock of cattle, receiv-
ing therefor 1000 head of sheep which
he will range on Tie Oscura rancn he
recently bought from G. p. Hyde and
Bud Smith.
William Childress, of San Angelo,
Texas, bought of N. T. Wilson, what is
known as the Howard Well ranch in
Crockett county. 1t embraces IL 900
acres, 1000 acres being decided land,
the balance being school and railroad
lands. There are 1000 cattle, 10, 900
sheep, nearly 200 horses and mules
and a bunch of goats. This property
adjoins the Stribling ranch which Mr..
Childress also owns.
A decision of considerable import
anc to cattle commission dealers has
been made by the Kansas City court of
appeals. The court decides that the
commission dealers cannot be COM
PEELED to pay for stolen cattle which
they may have sold. Hundreds of cat
tie are sold at the stock yards annu-
ally. When the commission men have
no means of a~scertaining that the cat
tie offered to them for sale are stolen,
it Is a presumption that h cattle be-
long to the men shipping them. Under
this decision the commission men are
not liable for the sale of stolen cattle.
This reverses the general practice at
the stock yards. Fol years the pur-
chasers of. stock have bee compelling
the commission men to make good
such losses.-Denver Record-Stock-
man.
In Lincoln and several other coun-
ties a number Of cattlemen are going
into the sheep business after disposing
of their cattle. This has given rise to
the impression that the sheep men are
crowding the cattlemen from the
range. The fact is that sheep raising
and goat raising are better adapted to
certain sections of New Mexico and
therefore more profitable and that tx
plains why cattle ranges in Lincoln,
Guadalupe, Union and other counties
are in many instances turned into
sheep and goat ranges. AS to the cat
tie industry being wiped out of exist
ence in New Mexico there need be no
fear, although the tendency at present
runs to high grade stock kept in fenced
pastures rather than to leaving low
grade cattle roam at will winter and
summer on the public range.