Legal Cattle Rustling
by This is a story that shows how some folk could get away with slaughtering cattle they do not own when the stock owners are not smart enough to keep their cattle on land they own. It is not just possible because of any financial crisis. Not so long ago people who lived in large cities right along site ranch land used to rustle what ever cattle they could shoot at night and gain more to eat.
Horse Owner Mental Mishap
The fencing law turned out to be real dazzling to the husband because while trucking he observed several different kinds of fencing and the state of New Mexico has a law forcing ranchers to build fences to keep their stock off of every road in the state. When one travels into Oklahoma you must be careful. That state +doesn’t require ranchers to build any fencing one could hit some cow while driving through at night while vision is dimmer. None of the Native American Indian reservations in the state of New Mexico are required to build any fences alongside any road on the reservation. He never did pick up on whether there is a highway fencing law in Texas, Colorado or Arizona on any of the times he was trucking through them. It’s just that there always seamed to be some kind of fence alongside the Interstate.
Horse Owner Legal Memory
The one piece of horse owning experience that made this a conflict with their neighbors was what the husband had learned while growing up in Bosque Farms. To him it seamed like back then no one was allowed to let any of his or her livestock roam around into any small pasture belonging to someone else. It’s just that on his grandfather’s small diary farm none of the cattle were ever allowed to escape. He could just remember one time when some woman let a couple of her horses get out onto the highway and his brother in law ran into one of them with his pickup. He would never forget how upset that lady was because when that horse died. She had even tried to make my brother in law responsible enough to pay her a lot for it. At least the Valencia county judge was smart enough to throw out her claim.
Stock Owner Friendly Care
The husband thought that he had learned after living there a while he has been able to see how much people can really care for their stock. A few months before the people with that proud cut guilding started leasing that land he had watched his northern neighbor help some other horse owners out when their horse got out and escaped accross two fields into his neighbors. That guy just penned the horse up untill the people that lost it came and picked it up. The husband thought it was helpfull that the incident had only happened one time, not every time he wasn’t around like that proud cut gilding attacked one of his mares.
Stocl Owner Hazardious Care
On the northern side of neighbor’s pasture north of this couple is another piece of land where the owners are always grazing a herd of goats. In that case a couple weeks after the one horse got into their neighbor’s pasture a herd of goats also did. They didn’t stay over there very long before several of them hit the horse owning couple’s pasture. In this case the husband learned how some special fencing had been built on the northern fence to keep some goats out. It’s just that this neighbor didn’t seam to care a tiny bit when his herd got onto property belonging to anyone else. He was just as hard to get into gathering his herd up, as the proud cut gilding owners had been to catch their horse up.
Historic Horse Owner Legal Puzzle
The horse owning husband told himself, Now I can perfectly understand how friendly neighbors can help each other keep their livestock under some control. It’s just that looking back into the eighteen hundreds when this area was mostly populated with ranchers and cowboys I can’t understand how New Mexico could have a law making some cattle rustling perfectly legal. Let’s just assume that any outlaw rancher wouldn’t have to worry about having enough stock to herd to Kansas and make some money. Every time some of his neighbor’s stock wandered onto his land they could be herded into a small pin and branded with the outlaw’s branding iron.
It was a normal function to actually double brand some cattle back in the Wild West. With the price of ground beef being so high right now wouldn’t it be perfectly legal for me to butcher whatever stock roams onto my pasture? In this harsh economy it would really crack me up to legally cattle rustle around here just like they did in Blackjack Ketch-um time.
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