The Coconino sun., 1912-02-02
Of Interest to Cattlemen

esting figures as to the compara- tive number and value of cattle in the southwest. As government figures are probably secured from forest service reports, county tax rolls etc. It is safe to estimate that in such states as Arizona, California, Texas, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico the number of cattle exceeds greatly the figures quoted.
 Arizona has 81I,z66 head of cattle valued at 4,4o8, ,ooo, Cal ifornia has I,8o3,o6 cattle valued at $40, ,o87 1000; Texas has 6,72I,- 5o2 cattle, valued at SI2o,!sI,ooo; Utah has All, Io5 cattle, valued at $8, o25, ,ooo; Nevada has o,8oI cattle, valued at Se,552, ,ooo; New Mexico has I,o72, ,656 cattle, valued at S2o.245, 900.
 California therefore is proven to have more cattle than Arizona, Nevada and Utah together.
 Some other interesting features are noted when the bulletin also shows that there has been in IoII an increase of ten per cent in breeding stock throughout the United States and decrease in the number of steers. The num- Der of cattle east of the Missis- sippi is about the same as the number west winch also proves that the western states are com paratively small factors in the national cattle consumption.
 The ten leading cattle states in numbers and values are Texas, Iowa, New York, Kansas, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota, and the next producers are in their order California, Pennsylvania and Okla homa and Michigan.
 No figures are given as to the number of cattle slaug htered and used for beef, either by the fed eral or state statistics. However, it is figured by the well informed that California which practically me ans the Pacific coast, is killing over double its production, and is feeding about half of the number killed within the state. About 25 per cent of the entire number slaughtered are fed on beet pulp from sugar factories.
 Los Angeles slaughters some I4o,o head of cattle yearly, San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, including the bay towns, some thing near to 33o,ooo head and Portland and Seattle and vicinity can be figured to kill for beef about o,ooo head while interior towns probably add another Ioo,- 900, giving safe estimate for the Pacific coast beef consump- tion of about 8oo, 900 cattle at an average value of $50 per head.
 The Northern Arizona grass beef supply is something less than 6ooo head annually. whereas the number of Northern Arizona teed- CTS shipped is probably o,ooo head of fall delivery cattle.
 The number of Southern Ari- zona spring and fall cattle turned off yearly is probably some 2oo,- GOO head, and the number of cat tie turned in Northern Arizona in the spring exceeds considerabl, the number of fall delivery cattle.
 Last year the demand for spring cattle fairly depicted the ranges in Northern Arizona, Southern Utah and Nevada, which were shipped mostly to Montana, Idaho, Wy oming and northern ranges. The combination of high beef prices and the shipping out of cattle in- cident to the devastation of ranges from the great fires in the north west in the previous year proba- bly, combined to cause the ranges to be short and last year they were again filled up. It is very doubtful if the demand will ap- proximate in any degree whatso- ever that of last year for yearling steers which Is we'll as the supply of yearling steers will be less than of last year and 2s and 3s steers are scarce. In many dis tricts this condition has been made permanent by the turning of breeding COWS for feeders and veal the veal demand has con tributed
 When, however, it is consid- cred that the local situation is very small factor indeed in the
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