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MANAGEMENT ON RANGES IN THE WEST 



the plains, where hauling is much less difficult than in the foothills 

 and mountains (Fig. 226). 



Kind of Men Employed as Herders and Camp-Tenders. 

 On the southwestern ranges nearly all herd'ers and camp-tenders 

 are Mexicans. It takes a larger number of them to handle a given 

 number of sheep than it does of other types of laborers and they 

 do not stick continuously to herding for more than three or four 

 months at a time,, but while they are in the employ of the ranch, 



FIG. 226. Meal time in summer sheep camp in the mountains. 



they can, as a rule, be depended upon to stay with the sheep. 

 Numerous cases have been cited of Mexican herd'ers having lost 

 their lives through faithfully caring for their sheep in severe storms. 



Mexican herders receive lower pay and they do not require so 

 large an expenditure for provisions as do other types of herders. 

 Their demands for provisions, however, depend somewhat on 

 whether they are working for Mexicans, Spaniards, or Anglo- 

 Saxons. Oftentimes the Mexican employer can keep a man on 

 sixty per cent of what the same man would demand of an Anglo- 

 Saxon employer. 



The following tabulation shows the supplies which the Golden- 

 berg ranch of Corona, New Mexico, furnished to two men every 

 fifteen days in the year 1911, and the cost of the same. Of course, 

 the cost of these provisions are now much greater. 



