The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-12-11
The Cow and Butter Business.

l pOtuOh or them, are actuauy TUSiWg away Tor the want of little grease in the shape of butter | Housewives and hotel cooks are put 10 their wits ends to make anything nice, without the article but 1t is not to be had, and they have ceased trying to make pies, cakes and other "chickcn-Gxingsp This should not be the case | in a country like this, but it is really so. Of course many of our farmers and few towns. folk keep cows and make little butter not | enough, however to put taste in the mouths" Of one-iourth the population We hear, every day, of people who intend soon to engage in the dairy business, and we hope all who can will do SO. There is money in it. Cows can be kept here as cheaply as in California. or very nearly so. and fresh butter is worth treble as much here as 1t Is there or course, our people have to take the Indian risk in bringing cows to the Territory and keeping them afler they are here but they can afford to do so, and still make more money than Californian can. For instance. in tbe rural districts Of California fresh butter is worth but 40 cents per pound here it Is worth sl 50. These prices are in gold. To show the profits to Co be derived from keeping cows. and making and selling butter, we will presume that one of our farmers-no matter which one. so that he understands the business has at the commence ment Of next new year 20 good milch cows. and has the good fortune, during the year. to keep them from falling into the hands Of the Indians. or meeting with accidents, be will. at the end of that time, have made at least 200 pounds Of but Ter from each COW. which multiplied by 20. the number og COWS kept by him. gives tota! Of 4ooo pounds. Now. let us sappose .ha: be sas sold this butter for it's present market value. sl5O per pound, gold, he will have pocketed ihc nice sum Of $6,OOO. Then, let us suppose tha, each COW will have brought him a calf worth. at least SEQ, and he has another Si0O to add to his profits. which brings ,be whole amonn, up io s6.400. Good cows are worth about sI0O each, and the cost of 20 such would be s2Oo0. Then let us suppose that t has cos, him s2 OOO to herd the cows, milk them make and market the butter etc.. and. afer all this. he will have cleared s2,4o9 in one year. besides having sup. piled himself and family with milk and butter. 1T this showing Is anything like correct one. and we believe 1t is, ai who can raise enough money 10 buy cows, should al once do SO.
 sHor A HoG.-One day last week. one of five men who were cncamped near the ranch of J. II. Lee in Lees Valley, aboa, F miles from Pres eon started out on a hunt, and did not go very far before he struck game said game being Lees band of hogs Atleasi, so we are informed by Mr. Lee himself who came 10 town late last week. procured EaEraa. for ihe srrest of all five of the men had lhrn arrested and taken before Justice Blair, who fined the man that shot the hog hly dollars. Mr. Lee though. the aae too small, and that every one of ihe i've should have been pauished but therein the Justice did not agree with him. He complained ,o us that he has lost several fine hogs in this way, by par ties of immigrants shooting them and be is de. terminei 10 put a stop to i,.
 0uR {j year old friend, Dan Knnison. called on us the other day and subscribed for another copy of the MNER. for friend in Nebraska This makes five papers Dan. takes and send, cast # s'i our oitszaHs would 5s =s =ei! == Dan, we would soon have an eastern circulation amounting to several thousand.
 Tug time Is near al hand when property own CTS will have to pungie to the taX-colleciOT. oT have their property returned as delinquent when VI NANAAAs tettA tssAAo "AAA Fo AAAtNfAcNA hs AaN addition oi 10 per cent and costs of advertising etc, therefore it is better for all who can to pay before the 30th inst We had hoped that upon the payment or the taxes levied this year, the county would have enough cash on hand to redeem all outstanding warrants, and that the slate would be cleaned of everything in the shape of indebtedness, except that created for the erection of county buildings, and which stands agains; the county in the shape of bonds, drawing legal rate of interest. We now think differently; indeed, we think oar county is bur dened with more deht than she can well pay or pack, and we call upon our Supervisors to do their utmost to prevent her from becoming swamped. It will never do to take in and pro- vide for every person that comes along and says he is sick and in indigent circumstances. Tax payers cannot afford to nurse ihoss who hscome sick from debauehery, and thesoeher debarchees know it. the better. or course, criminals will will have to be fed and taken care of The public safety demands that. But. can they not be employed at something by vbeh they can earn their living while waiting for trial or serving out their terms of sentencei We think they can.
 MINING LAws.-Those of our readers who own claims iu undeveoped quartz lodes in Big Bug District must not forget the important fact that. according to a new law of the district all claims upon which the amount of work required by the Bylaws of the District is not performed, on or before the 2Oth day of the present month, will be subject to relocation. Me forget the amount of work necessary to be done, but think 1t is the