Arizona citizen., 1874-05-23
Sheep.

In stocking country with sheep, 1t is
 better to make haste slowly In numbers
 and bring in those of finer breed than to
 rush the thing with a low grade of stock
 We don't know as this Is anything very
 new, but it is a principle seldom carried
 out in these lower attitudes. A man will
 acquire vast quantity of land and only
 half cultivate the soil and strive for a
 great Dumber of stock, unmindtul of the
 quality. We are glad to see in the earlier
 stages of introducing sheep into this part
 Of the Territory, the quality is looked
 after more than the number. There are
 two lots now being brought here, one of | 1900 by Governor Stafford, and the other
 numbering nearly 6000, belonging to Lar
 kin W. Carr. Gov. Safford's are some of
 the finest sheep that could be procIred in
 southern California and we shall have
 more to say of them hereafter. For we 1 like to talk about the men who are doing
 this sort of thing. One of them is worth
 more than all the loafers in the Territory, high-toned or lOw-toned. Mr. Carr, who
 returned last Saturday from looking after his flock of sheep which are now this side of Yuma, gives us the following in formation He started from Los An
 geles with S200 ewes, 27OO lambs one
 month old and forty Spanish merino
 bucks. On the road to Yuma he lost
 about l5O head, large and small, from poison weed at Carrizo creek He lost
 none at all from any other cause. He found food and water very scarce on the Colorado desert, but .he sheep arrived in fine condition at Yuma, being in as good
 order as when they left Los Angeles.
 These sheep were bred from both the Spanish and French merino; they are very large and shear about seven pounds ot wool per annum, which is far above the average of sheep in California. Mr. Carr has seven head of pure blood merinos which will arrive here Tn few days, and are of the best blood in the United States One of them is a French merino buck, six teen months old, which sheared in Cali fornia, before starting, g pounds of wool
 Another is pure blood Spanish merino, one year old. Both the above bucks are the offspring of premium bucks at the last California State Fair The remaining five of pure bloods are Spanish merinO ewes, raised in Vermont and of the best blood in that State. Two of them were premium ewes at the Fairs in Vermont last Fall. He sheared these five ewes at Yuma and took seventy pounds of wool from them.
 We are very glad to learn of the success which both MT. Carr and Governor Saf- ford have met Tn these first importations. We believe the latter has not lost single sheep since the herd left Los Angeles. The grumblers about hard times in this part of the Territory had better make the most of their opportunities, for there is class of men here who are getting hold of mining and stock raising and they will change the normal state of things, if only allowed time, as surely as the sun will set this evening.
 FRANCISCO ALGoDoN, chief represent | ing 149 families of the Guajata Indians, living on the Gila, has been in town dur | ing the past week with some of his tribe. | He came for a conference with the Papa ! gos and their agent, Dr. Wilbur, and in the conference he stated that although he | and his people have been living on the | Glla, they are in reality Papagos and desire | to remove here and cast in their lot with | the latter. He complains that where they | have been living, his people have never received anything from the government l and have been without any recognition | and they think if they can be joined to the agency here they will stand a better chance of contentmcnt and incidentally | of loayes and fishes. The Papagos on their part, after due circulation of the seductive pipe, concluded that they could see the mulberry mark and are willing to recognize their long lost brothers, but conditionally. The Quajatas wear long hair and while speaking the same language as the Papagos, use a different accent. This might seem a small matter and un- worthy of consideration in the first warm embraces of long separated blood cousins. But the Papagos are right in the matter and don't propose to let any weakness get the better of discretion. Their short hair and pure Ionian accent serve to distin. guish their tribe from all others and saves them from being charged with the sins of other Indians through mistaken identity. The conditions which they place therefore, on permanently affiliating with the Qua jatas are that the latter shall get fight ing cut to their hair and gradually relin- quish their Irish accent under proper tui- tion. pr. Wilbur on his part simply in- formed the Quajatas that he would sub init their request to agent Stout of the Pima reservation.