The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-28
To Move Cattle From Mexico

Driven to desperate measures by the
frequency of depredations from revolu
tionaries and federal troops in Mexico.
large English corporations are getting
their cattle out of northern Mexico. A
shipment of s., 900 steers from the north
Chihuahua range will be made ir+o New
Orleans, the largest shipment of cattle
between August l and November j. Or as
near to those limits as is found possible.
This movement will require 310o cars,
loading 30 steers to a car, Or about l0S
trains, at the rate of 30 cars to train.
The movement Is coming here by ship,
en- route to ranches north and west. 1t
is stated that six vessels have Deon char
tered for the voyage from Tamplco TO
New Orleans. The first trip will be made
early in August, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat
Some details of this monster cattle ex-
odus were received Sat irday from Capt.
W. G.. Harding, general live stock agent
of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, and one
of the most experienced cattlemen In the
world, who was at the Monteeone hotel.
Captain Harding said that the cattle are
the property of the big Corcalltos Ranch
company, a powerful British syndicate,
owning the largest ranches in Mexico out
side the mammoth holdings of Gen. Luis
Terranzas, the 'world's cattle king The
a Mexican port, after having been driven
out of Mexico across the border The cat
tie must be out of Mexico by November
1, according to the contracts made for
delivery Some of the steers will go TO
| ranches in Montana and IVY oming, but
the greater part will be shipped to stock
farms in the southeast an1 Florida.
Captain Harding was a Very busy man
Saturday. He spent sume time at the
ST. Bernard stock pens making arrange
ments for the handling of the cattle there.
Large pens will be butt al rhe Chalnette
terminals of the Northeastern, 70 which
the cattle coming in the six vessels will
be unloaded. and it is stated that those
terminals will witness the greatest ac-
tivity since the days of the Boer war,
when thousands of muie IS were shipped
through them to South Africa.
The movement of the cattle from the
Chihuahua ranches will be herculean
task. Hundreds of vaqueros or cow
punchers will have to be employed in
rounding up the stea-s, and then they
will have to be loaded on trains of the
Mexican Central to be shipped to Tam
pico. The stock cars of the Mexican Cen
trail are not as large as those of the
American roads, and it is said that %
to car will be the maximum load. At
| that rate it will require 1929 cars to haul
the stock from Chihuahua 10 Tampico. a
StdfIllnR TASK Wnen one CtTSlutIsS Tee
great risks to life and property in Mex
| leo at present. Then after arriving at
| Tampico they will have 10 he held for
! some time there, as 1t is said the aver
| age ship in the gulf service can hardly
| carry more than 1000 cattle at trip.
1t is said that arrangements have been
made with local line TO furnish the
| ships for this movement and six will be
| employed in the 93 trips necessary. II
requires four days to make the trip acios S
| the gulf, and several days to load and
unload on each side, so each ship will
| hardly make better than a VOYAGE every
| 10 days. so that it may take five months
| to complete the shipments. Each ship
| load will fill train so there probably
will be trainload movements fer fully five
| months, while the shipments continue, at
the rate of two or three week.
| Captain Harding recently completed
| handling a movement of 5000 cattle from
some ranches In Florida. OF this num-
ber 1900 head went to the Millers at 1Ol
ranch in Oklahoma, and the others to
Cudahy's ranch In Montana. They went
via Montgomery and great stock pens
had to be constructed to give chem food
and water en- route.