Eighty-eight New Mexico steers sold in…
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the Rio Grande
valley and to the vicinity of Las Vegas. He has
sustained but little loss and the cattle are now
doing well, as the grass on the range is fine,
but had it not been an exceptionally good year,
his experiment would undoubtedly have been
a costly one.
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Eighty-eight New Mexico steers sold in
Kansas City on Monday at $1.80 per hundred,
and averaged 803 pounds. If any stock grower
can figure out a profit in raising steers for such
money he can make figures lie. Scrub stock
will no longer pay, as feeders testfy by the
prices they offer that they have not found them
profitable, and the returns from scrubs shipped
to the markets show that no one but the canners
want them, and they are in position to make
their prices, having no competition. Range men
may argue that pure bred and high grade bulls
will do no service on the range, and if it is a
fact they might as well quit the business, as it
is certain no money can be made raising scrubs.
Wm. Mason robbed Pap Seed of 75c in
Central, and got 30 days in the county jail for
so doing. — Pinos Altos.
From the August 21. 1891. Issue of The Enterprise