Arizona citizen., 1876-01-08
A Sheep Story.

Arizona enterprise" The Visalia Delta
 publishes, and tha San Francisco Bull
 le.in fepria,s the following choice in-
 formation:
 About year aCo qtite a nGmber of stock men both from this and adi0in- | ing counties sold out their interests j here and left with their herds for the virgin pastures Ot Arizona Most of | them have now returned, and report | hat iher have suffered great loss. | They met WljA many unexpected o5- siacleS, sCCh Gs poisonous herbs, aikali deserts, and barren plains; but. worst ! Ot all, the iaWless character of the in i habitan,s, who in the carb of Sayares. raided their stock, plundered their outfit, and threatened tIair livuz The increased emigration of the past season seems to have drawn together on our border bands of Spanish stock thieves ! and laViess rUinans who stand aS mid ! dlcmeu between the old settlers and ! the new eDigrants, numbers of whom have returned here destitute, thankful : tO have escaped sound in life sud limb. The country IS a perfect paradise for stock, according Go all reports, but emiErants can only avail themselves ot
 its advantages by going in force, pre- pared to defend their property 8, all
 hazards
 Of course every resilient of, and every one possessing proper informa- ton of Arizona for the past two years know the above to be wholly untrue and in part ridiculous. But the editor who wrote the statement, knew he was cutting out Of whole cloth and allowed himself SO much margin that he is simply unconfned and ambiguous. It neither refers to Arizona nor Califor- nia on examination, but by inference reflects upon OUT Territory. In read ing the statement one can in fact enjoy in imagination quite a journey without any attendant fatigue or expense. While he considers the "poisonoUs herbs, alkali deserts ands barren plains" Ee might reasonably suppose he was in California When he reads that the country is @ perfect paradise for stock, he would naturally know he was in Arizona. And when he learned of "the lawless character of the in- habitants, who in the garb of savages raidcd the stock" he would, t0 all in- tents and purposes, be at sea. And as we obtain a dim conception of the wonderful power of the writer of our and consider his prospec- tive usefulness in these days of railroad and transportation dispuiation, we can only lament that he is on The Visalia Delta and not cu the San Francisco Bulletin.
 But descending to flct, the writer is less reliable and as harmful as Cal lfornia squirrel A good many herds of sheep have been brought upon Arr zona pastures, both in the northern and and southern parts of the Terri tory during the past year, and have been and are doing as we'll as could be expected in hitherto Untied sheep country. We believe that one or two herds suffered serious loss by feeding Dn poisonous weeds on the other side of the Colorado, in California. We have heard of one instance where the Pima Indians, undisguised, beat man lEt of a few head Of sheep, and this, with outraces suffered in common by he adjacent inhabitants" from these same Pima Indigns, is only hastenIng he reckoning with them. AS 60 the ' border bands of Spanish stock thieves md Iavless ruilians who stand as mid. uemcn,H etc, etc, it i> barely possible hat this passage i7 taken from Judge Cozzen's Marvellous C0uniry,' bat if inc book contains any thing as good as Lat. we deeply regret not reading 1t more carefully.
 Tn conclusion We can only say 10 those contemplating a sheep incursion into Arizona: This is new country for sheep; there is nothing in our laws, CT physical or other features to positively assure success Go human and .rring shcepmcn. You may fail. In fact by the establishment of public schools we are trying to kill inlalli6il- .ty il this Territory and put every one 1n a common level. But we have pasture lands and some other considerations valued by the lverage sheep man, and if you can't get your sheep here more safely than -ou can get your person along the loodlum infested streets of San Fran .isco, and if you can't do better with heep after you get them here than you an on the impoverished ranges of Jalifornia. you had better lose your heep and go into business with The Delta man.
 THE ALTA says that notwithstand- ng the fine prospect for the grass TOD cf 1876. 1t is reported that sew
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