Show THE RAES the high prices for cattle that prevailed during the pact twelve months have resulted in heavy shipments of stock tu the market from off the ranges of the west the shipments have been ao laree that the ranges are now only poorly stocked and a movement buet be made to restock them cattle men talk of buyince calves alone the mexican frontier aad chipping them north in the A movement of this kind occurred in 1891 it will be remembered that the seasons of 1889 and 1890 witnessed the great drought that denuded the western manees of both cattle and vegetation when the nutritious bunch of utah nevada idaho montana and wyoming again appeared in abundance there haq no stuck to convert it into a marketable article about ibis time arizona new mexico texas and northern mexico experienced a drought and northern cattle men profiting by their experience and the of the situation bought thousands of head of atar vinz animal shipped them north and restocked their rangle the opinion a the time pre that southern cattle bould how heavy loss before becoming acclimated but the experiment hiis more than tho email animals developing into excellent beef and wintering as aa the natives what necessity taught has since been of advantage to our cattlemen the percentage of increase in creaso owing to the milder climate is greater in tho that by breeding iu that region and ranging in the north best results are obtained now that the ranges arc insufficiently supplied with acock catok men are preparing to make another raid into the cattle fields of the south aad ID the spring heavy shipments may b looked for |