Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-15

Eastern buyers are contracting for
fine woods at liz and 12h cents in
California, New Mexico and Arizona.
There is e greater demand for work
mules now than for some years. Con
struction work on the railroads is be-
lieved to be the cause, as mules meas
uring 16 hands high and of good
weight are bringing s165 to s175.
B. F. Smith, of the sheep firm of
Mason & Smith, was in Roswell look.
ing Tor lambers. They have their
herds on the canal south of H. p. Hob
sons farm, near Roswell, and expect
to begin Landing $500 ewes at once.
j. c. Osgood, of Pitkin county. Colo,
has lost two out of six fine mares he
recently imported from Germany. One
was disabled by a rough sea and died
at Liverpool and the other one died at
the home ranch, R%edstone, in Colorado.
John w. DeKay, of the North Amer
lean Beef company, has let a contract
to Jonathan Clark, Sons & Co., of Chi
cago, for a 5000, 900 packing house to
be built at Uruapan, Michoacan, Mex
leo. This is the first plant of the kind
to be erected in Old Mexico.
The Midland, Texas, Live Stock Re-
porter says: II. G.. Hendrick started
900 steer yearlings from his ranch a
week ago, bound for Hereford, where
he expects 10 sell them. They are all
"white-faces," and highly graded. Mr..
Hendrick has refused a SIT bid on
them.
w. A. Johnson, manager of the Black
water Land & Cattle company, return
ed to Roswell from Kansas City, ac-
companied by his wife. Mr.. Johnson
o the remainder of the steers his
company bought of j. J.. Hagerman re-
Gently to Kansas City and sold them
at a good figure.
Chris Meyers, of the San Luis valley,
has sold 400 head of cattle to a Denver
cattle buyer at $40 a head. The sale
includes all of his herd of graded
Herefords in order to change to the
raising of Galloways. He will buy a
lot of the black cattle and take a fresh
start.-Denver Field and Farm.
G. H. Webster, a sheepman from
Fort Collins, Colo, has located in
Chaves county and last week bought
from Fred H. Miller, through the Ros-
well Live Stock Commission company,
a ranch thirty-ive miles north of Ros-
well, and 1000 head of good sheep. V.
r. Kenny, the county surveyor, sur
veyed the ranch.
The live stock commission men,
packers and grain dealers In Kansas
City and a number of farmers and
stockmen of Missouri, Kansas and the
southwest contributed to a fund to
purchase grains, provisions. foodstuffs
and seeds for the drouth sufferers of
Sharp county, Ark. Substantial arti-
Giles of diet and a few d~elicacies were
included, the whole making a car load.
Leverett G. Higley, of Dekalb u
ty, Ind, writes to the Breeders Ga
zette that ne uses ten drops of pure
carbolic acid in a half pint of warm
milk or water to cure indigestion In
sheep. He says one dose is generally
sufficient, but if not, u second dose
shoulo contain only five drops. Mr..
Higley has found this a never failing
remedy after many years Of expert
ence.
j.. II. Hicks, the Santa Rosa cattle
man, who was at Roswell last week,
bought ten 2-year-old Hereford bulls
from the Slaughter Hereford home
east of town of H. w. Hamilton, the
foreman OF the farm, at $50 a head, for
his herds. The Slaughter Herefords
have a reputation for good blood and
nne points IDdC makes Inem SOOu SELL
ers and the purchaser always gets
value received.
The war between the cattlemen and
the sheepmen in Wyoming reached a
climax last week, in which 10000
sheep were killed AS the story goes
it seems hat the sheep men had
driven their sheep several miles across
the "deadline," when the cattlemen,
heavily armed, closed in on them, tied
their herders and proceeded to destroy
their outfits and shot down those OF
the sheep that they did not drive over
the cliffs.
The cattlemen of west and south
west Texas are interested in a ma
chine that DR.. C. F. Simmons, a well
known Live Oak county ranchman, has
had made according to his own ideas.
1t is a steam prickly pear cutter,
crusher and mixer. The machine is on
wheels and can be moved from place
to place. After the pears are crushed
they are mixed with cotton seed, cot
ton SEED meal or cake and run into
fro,,ohc II ic ayoallapf fond for cattle