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Show MILLIONS DP LIVE STOCK Inciease. of Spanish Animals Impori- ed Into America Amazing The Increase of horse, cattle and other domestic sol.ii ila imported by th BpHn-hir1- I., the new world was marvelous. Tha Gaceta de Mexico for October, 1T2R. reporla that In the mnth around the cltv of Puehla alone ttiere had b-n add K.irti mulea at $0 a head and M.IOO honsen mi la. 20 and 24 reals (M SO to ft aeh. In 1T4J when A'lriilrul V, rnrni threatened threat-ened the Mexlran ooaat, one haeendadn. In.n Pernsn.lo .1.- la. fampa. Conds Wan Mateo d- Valparaiso, ifT. r'-l 1000 aaddla horses for the .Wenae of Vera rus and fromWel U more If needed! The figure- of thte Increase astounded the n, .t x i rl. fi. .-.I tr.ivelera and s..me of ih sharpest polemics in early American hlstor) wen leveled by exp-rts against Eurof-ean srmchsdr historians who fancbd that the horae. ox and other I- i-tM had "deteriorated" In Amerlca. Tho world certainly had never before een any such multiplication. What li amounted to Is Indicated by the fact that vessel and whole fleets sailed for Spain laden exclusively with the hide of cattle already In 157 Acosta noted the . spoliation f 109. ?t hides from San Domingo and Mexico alone In one Bota The prices to which these animals fall are even more significant If enmpured with price that ruled at the tlm of the mnqu.st in 17 good work oxen could be bought in the City of M' vl.o at .) fh- )..k and In Guadalajara Guadala-jara for i In Nuevs Oallcla n good horse couM be had for 12 anrt a mule for t I 1 ml II a .1 - 'i.i 11,. .mni'iti t" 1 1 j n 1 manada of twenty-four marea with tin ir alullloii for tS- In 1 'hill at lh. -in.. lime one could buy a good trotter for $1 After this It seems almost gratuitous i" 1 . mark that mam IfSfSlCail gsntle-inen gsntle-inen owned i'..00 head of cattls and horses apises unl some far more, or to r 1 .11 the fnrt that one Mexican cavalier, Juan Orduna, a boat lftO. bad on his hAclenda In one .-ur a "crop" of 18,000 calves. |