Colfax County Stockman

The Colfax County Stockman at Springer was founded in April, 1881, by the Northern New Mexico Cattle Company, composed of Senator Dorsey, M. W. Mills. Jacob Taylor, Jack Howell. The company afterward leased it to Captain Henry Sturges who conducted it for ten years. Since September 16, 1893, the Stockman has been owned and edited by Joseph Frank Hutchinson, who bought the plant from the cattle company.

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Source: History of New Mexico, Its Resources and People, VolumeI, Pacific States Publishing Co., 1907.