The Arizona sentinel., 1874-04-25
IAN UNPOEIICAL. PASTORAL. 1"
The Angora Goat Again.

turn of mind, and who don't care much about material prosperity
 will begin to think that we have goat on the brain, because we pursue this subject in successive numbers of the SENTINEL. To such we have only to say that they may pass by these goat ar ticles. We know that 10 a large class of our readers the subject is deeply interesting, and we intend to give them the benefit of what light we are able to obtain, in re- ference to this valuable industry.
 Arizona, notwithstanding the
 vast extent of her mines, is all one pastoral region, possessing, as we remarked in a former article, advantages in climate and range for the successful rearing of the Angora goat, over any other coun- try in the world. The production of wool is the safest business in which a man can engage. The market cannot be glutted. "The consumption of wool is increasing more rapidly than it's production, the world over." In an able article by Harrison Gray Otis, which we find in that excellent journal, Crofutfs Western World. the writer has the figures, which he obtained from the Bureau of Statistics, by which he shows that the United States go abroad every year for eleven million dol lars worth of raw and thirty-seven million dollars worth of manufac- tured wool Wm. M. Landrum, Esq, of Watsonville, Cal, that practical and experienced wool grower, uses the following lan- guage:
 "T assert that there is not a business in America, that enrich es men so rapidly as Wool-growing in the sections of country alluded to, where feed costs little or noth- ing. I do not know of ten men in the State, of any class, from the most illiterate to the scientific, who have made wool. growing their entire business, for ten years land let speculation alone), who have not acquired a competency. And I assert that there is no other bushes, but has its excep- tations to the rule. The fact of a man being known as wool grow CT has generally been sufficient guarantee of his financial respon- sibility. We are asked why wool growers do not fail, as other men? The answer is, simply be- cause the growth of the wool and the increase are as perpetual as the time in which they live, Itl matters not how dark the night is, the wool continues to grow; and it matters not how the WInd l blows or how it stOrms-gestation is never longer than l50 days The lambs will be one-half fes nal es, and often twins, and they | breed the next year, making d | double compound "a perpetual | growth and no loss. Everything that does not go into the market | goes back. to enrich the pastures, and though the landlord may be very sick. it does not stop the growth of the lambs. Not 50 with other business. t#.t
 "The mechanic or the man who works for salary has nothing to grow while he sleeps; when his labor ceases his income stops, but his expenses are perpetual Hence he is growing poorer more than one half the time. If he puts in SIP days labor in year, deducting his lost time in changing business and for sickness, holidays and hours of recreation, he is lucky if he squares his bills and has few dollars to pay the undertaken on his last round. It is true there are, perpetual expenses attending the sheep or goat business; but under the most unfavorable cir cums tances, where they can live on the commons without beiugl fed, the meat of the wethers will pay all expenses, without draw ing on the wool or increase of ewes. Hence it is like a peren- nial stream flowing into a basin; it is only a question of time about filling it to overflowing." -t
 We have thus again drawn up- on Mir. Landrum's interesting work. He.speaks from psacti- 1. cal standpoint and knows what he talks about. His reasoning