The largest individual sale of steers made…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

lded with hot water with which he was preparing his lonely meal. Most of the Indians arrived on foot but they stole twelve head of horses from Deer creek, then went through San Luis pass and secured about twenty more horses at the Lang, another of Head & Hearst’s ranches. The largest individual sale of steers made in New Mexico, was consummated at Las Vegas recently by the sale of 7,000 head of 1, 2, and 3 year olds belonging to the J. C. Lea Cattle Company and the Black outfit, of Lincoln Coun- ty, to W .E. Weeks, president of the Soda Springs Cattle Company of Idaho. The prices paid were $14, $19 and $22, respectively, de- livered at Soda Springs, Idaho. We are glad to announce, with almost posi- tive certainty, that the various Indian rumors of last week were without foundation,, except the report of the killing of B. F. Cady on Deer creek. Deer creek is in Grant County, only a few miles from the Mexican line at Cloverdale, and while the killing was done by Indians, we