Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-10-27
REMARKABLE
SHIPMENTS
At Least Two Million Sunshine
Sheep Sent to Markets
This Season
SHORTAGE OF CARS
Largest Business in Carrying Lambs and
Wool in the History Of the Santa
Fe Central RaiIway...0ther
Roads Show Same Results,

New Mexico this fall will send to
the great stock markets of the CEN
tral west the largest number of sheep
ever shipped from the Territory
With the big supply is coupled high
er prices for lambs and muttons than
ever before have been paid.
Statistics prepared by s. B. Grim
shaw, assistant to the president and
general manager of the Santa Fe
Central Railway, tell the story of the
bumper sheep crop. Every available
car on the system is being pressed in
to service to carry sheep, while other
New Mexico roads are experiencing a
car shortage.
Just how many sheep will 60 to
market from the Sunshine Territory Is
unknown, but the Santa Fe Central
will alone handle mroe than 100000.
1t is safe to estimate the whole num-
Der at about ten times this figure, max
ing total shipment of more than
100000 head
The sheep shipment season opened
about October 10 and will continue un-
til December 5.
This Is our banner year for sheep
shipments" said Mr.. Grimshaw, of the
Santa Fe Central today. "The num-
Der to be handled by our line will ex-
ceed that of any past year and / feel
that | am not exaggerating in the
least when | state that the number
OF sheep that will be sent to the great
stock markets of the central west
from New Mexico will make a new
high record.
"Of course | only can speak authori-
tatively for the Santa Fe Central, but
our line can be taken as criterion for
the shipments being made via the 9TH
er New Mexico roads.
up to last night our shipments
amounted to more than $4,000 sheep
We have already provided Transports
ton facilities for $4,000 more to be
shipped before November 1. This will
make a total of $4,000 for the first
twenty-one days of the season.
November will even be better
month for the shipment Of sheep than
October, for we will have full month.
Already we have orders for cars to
handle 10000 head, and this will sure
ly be augmented to at least 100000.
"Most of the sheep we are receiving
are being shipped to points In Colo
RADIO, where they are being fattened
for market. Estancia is the principal
place of shipment. Here, at Santa
Fe, we turn the sheep over to the
Denver & Rio Grande system. This
line carries the major part of the
shipments to points in the San Luis
Valley. Mosca, Hooper, Monte Wis
ia and Alamosa are the points where
most of the sheep are being fed. They
are billed to be fed in transit, which
gives the shipper an opportunity to
keep the sheep in Colorado for
period of from sixty to ninty days be-
fore sending them to Chicago, Kansas
City or Omaha. While in Colorado the
sheep and lambs will be pea fed.
Chadwick & Company, at Albu-
querque and o. W. Sylvester Of Monte
Vista are perhaps the two heaviest
shippers in the Territory. Sylvester
has at the present time consignment
of $4,000 head on the way from Ari-
zona to Estancia which will arrive be-
tween November / and S.
"The problem now is how to move
the great lamb crop with the great
est facility and dispatch. We can get
the sheep into Santa Fe, where they
are turned over to the Denver Il Rio
Grande. Our stock yards here are now
overcrowded.
'T know of no year that can equal
the present season 1t is fully six
times better than last year.
"The wool shipments, too, from this
Territory have been large. The sea-
son is now about closed and 1t indeed
has been a prosperous one. Up to the
present time we have handled 1856
474 pounds of wool and struggling con-
signments will bring the total up to
more than 3,500,OOO pounds. Big
prices have been received for this
wool by the shippers, in many cases
as high as twenty-five cents being re-
ceived."
Reports from the Santa Fe system
and the Rock Island bear out Mr.
Grimshaw's statements regarding the
bumper crop of sheep. While these
roads have prepared no statistics, the
freight agents say the shipments are
the largest in the history OF the com
lpanies. Both lines are unable. to fur
Inish enough cars to handle the sheep
because of the heavy run.