The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-03-27
Am EnserprtsinS seotchman-AI
abOnt GOats.
from the Baltimore Sun, Oath.

ARRIVAL. OF ANGORA GOATS FROM ASIA
Mr.. John S. Harris, of California, reached
Baltimore yesterday by the steamship Ssrdl-
niap, from Liverpool, with twelve Angora
goats, which he brought all the way from
Asia Minor, after most romantic and diff.
cult journey. occupying year. Angora and
Cashmere goats bad been considered ldentl'
cal, but sample Of real Cashmere wool sent
to Mr.. Harris from Madras disclosed the fact
that it was essentially different from the WOOL
grown on goats called ADgoras, which ne
and others owned in this country. This dis'
coyery led the adventurous breeder to go TO
| Asia and see and learn for himself, as well
as to study the habits and mode of raising
goats, with view to making them profitable
| in the Serras of California. He started April
| is. 1876, from California viG Japan and
China, intending to 60 overland into Thlbet,
but found that impracticabe. He then went
to Calcutta, and going through India, reach.
ed the Cashmere district and saw the ami
mails for which he had made so great jour-
ney.
He found the Cashmere goats covered with
rather sparse coat of coarse, long, black
hair, underneath which is fleece Of ex-
tremely white slk.like wool, used in the
manufacture of Indian shaws and other
goods that are highly prjzed for their fine.
ness of texture and capabilty for receiving
and retaining colors. The home of the Cash.
mere goat is in the Himalaya mountains,
% 900 feet above the level of the sea, in
region of eternal SHOWS, and there are none
in America. The traveller found these goats
could not be profitably acclimatized in Cali
fornia, but he gained the information that
mohair.wool goats can be successfully raised
in high altitude and low latitude, such as
the Serras of Southern California.
Mr.. Harris concluded then to 60 to Apgora,
but found he could not proceed overland on
account of war, nor vta the Persian Gull
on account of the unsettled state Of the
country. He therefore returned to Calcutta
and went uia Ceylon, Indian ocean, Red sea,
and Suez canal, to Port Said, over the Tau
rus mountains, In crossing which he was
occupied twenty.one days, and suffered In
tensely from cold, SHOWS, &C., with no other
food but native black-bread and kind OF
molasses. When, finally, he reached An.
CORA, and bought his goat9, two rams and
ten ewes, he ran short of money, and had TO
telegraph to California for credit at Constan-
tiuople. he borrowed from friendly
Scotchman, and started for the coast. He
had nine mules and three donkeys, on which
the precious goats were slung In boxes,
while other of the animals were loaded with
provender and baggage. -
He tried to reach Smyrna, but after foun-
dering in the mountains some days was
obliged to return to Angora. He then
turned north to Ismid, where be struck rail
to Constantinople. There he found money
from his partner, paid his debts and the ex-
port duty and st bucksheesh" demanded 6y
The Turks. He went from Constantinople
to Liverpool, and thence to Baltimore safely.
Mr.. Harris says that including all bis ex.
penses since he left home the goats have thus
far cost him $525 apiece in gold, or total
of Sc 300, and be has yet to take them across
the continent to California by rail.
decidedly modest, and does not think be has
performed remarkable journey In the wids
Of Central and Western Asia. When he left
California he and his partner had LOO goats
on their ranges at Hollister, Benito county,
where he has been seventeen years. He
thinks he has found that by proper breeding
California is especially adapted to producing
mohair woods.
The goats on the Sandman are smaller
than the ordinary animals, and have long
silken feeees of white WOOL Both sexes
have fat, corrugated horns about eighteen
inches long that diverge from the front Of
the head. AL are yearlings, and show 40 ill
effects from their travels. Several kids have
been born since leaving, Angora, one OF
which, several dsys old, Is alive and we'll.
The goats were visited by thousands OF peo-
pie at Liverpool, whore Mr. Harris was q
sort of lien. He has With him specimens OF
Cashmere and other woods, together with
their manufactured products, obtained In
Asia.