Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-11
STATE STOCkMEN
LEAVE FOR MEET
IN BORDER CITY
Problems Of Cattle and
Sheepmen To Be Met In
Convention Opening In FL
Paso Wednesday.
iRx The Associated rress.l

El Paso, Jan. 10.--3etteT market
prices for livestock. especially beef;
how to restock thousands of acres
of land on the depleted ranges of
Mexico and in the western and
southwestern parts of the United
States, and how to obtain credit
to finance the cattle industry, will
be some Of the big problems which
members of the American National
Livestock association hope to solve,
partly at least at their annual con-
vention which will convene here
Wednesday, January IL, for ses-
sions to last through January IA.
Officers of the organization are
arriving in FL Paso to draft reso-
lutions, complete some details of
the program and to arrange for the
entertainment of the expected
1900 or 1900 delegates.
The officers of the association
are: j. b. Kendrick. United States
senator from Wyoming, president;
c. NJ. O'DoncI OF Bell Ranch, N. NJ,
M. * Parsons, Salt Lake City,
Utah, Isaac Baer, Meeker, Colo,
e. l.. Burke, Omaha, Neb., Luke G.
Brite, Maria, Tex. William Poll
man, Baker. Ore. vice presidents;
II. w. Tomlinson, Denver, Colo,
secretary and j. w. Springer. Den
yer, Colo. treasurer. .r,.
Some of the officers Of the or
ganization in discussing the posi-
BILE restocking of Mexican pasture
lands declare that it would beI
years before sufficient cattle could
be had to do it with. There hardly
are enough cattle, they say, to re-
stock home grazing lands. During
the decade of revolutions in Mex
leo, the cattlemen say many Mex
lean ranches were DEVASTATED, cat
tie driven away by the hundreds,
sis. ughtered ruthlessly and the big
portion of the meat and all the
hides were lost. Many places were
left deserted. Other hundreds
of square miles of pasture land In
Mexico never were stocked the
cattle raiseas point out, Much Of
the land 80 neglected is along the
Rio Grande, where the water Isl
available, the climate ideal and
where. ranches would not be far
removed from markets. With that
double problem is raised-le-
stocking devastated districts and
putting cattle on heretofore unutl-
lized ranges.
on the question of finances Sam
II. Cowan of Fort Worth. Texas,
attorney for the National Livestock
association, has prepared a paper
he will read at the convention.
In it he will attempt to show, he
says, by pointing out concrete eX-
amples, why cattlemen are making
such small profits on their invest
mentS One example he points out
and says is typical is that of a Rock
Springs, Mont, stockman who ship
lped 1000 head of sheep to Chicago
at profit of less than SO cents a.
sheep. ..g
The expenses for getting the9an-
imals sold, according to the attor-
neys paper, We're: freight charges,
$2,024; switching charges at Chi
cago, $40; switching charges at
Omaha 500; bedding, SIS; feeding
cost S642.3S; war tax. $72.74;
yardage, $159.S4; fire insurance,
1910; commission, 5000; attend
ance, $50; total Of $3,224.66. TheI
sale price was given as $3,S'S,ll.
Albuquerque delegates from the
New Mexico Wool Growers asso-
citation to the American National
Livestock association convention inl
Eel Paso left last night for the bor-
der city. An executive committee
meeting OF the New Mexico Cattle
and Horse Growers association Will
be held there in the Chamber of
Commerce building today. Miss
Bertha. Benson, secretary for both
associations, left last night. 4
A wire received yesterday from
Prayer Miller stated that he was
in Chicago and would be in confer
ence there today with interstate
commerce commission in determin-
ing the minimum weight for double
deck cars for sheep. He will at
tend the National Wool Growers
association convention in Salt Lake