Image 36 of El Paso herald (El Paso, Tex.), August 23, 1913, (Progress Edition, Building and Progress)

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EL PASO HERALD 4 E ome of Mrs E French Iv r Montana Street Recently Built i MBJWHifffwTfr i WiTTfiinirrniifnT 1 1 ii r iHK Cattle Comprise 70 Per Cent of EI Pasos Imports N atura Stock Center El Paso Brick Company Plant CATTLE importations amounted to 70 percent of all the imports through the El Paso customs house during the past year and live stock continues as the most important product brought in from Mexico for consumption in this country El Paso is the hub of one of the largest and best cattle districts in the United States Each year nearly 200000 head of cat tle pass through El Paso about two thirds of these being from Mexico which are sent to grass Many of these go to Colorado Oklahoma and Kansas while Canada gets several thousand head annually Grazing Ground of Country New Mexico and west Texas are now being used as grazing ground and much of the stock which formerly went to eastern or northern pastures is being ktpt In this neighborhood Large packers of the country are deeply Interested In the grazing lands and of late they have been getting into the southwest where land is