The Arizona sentinel., 1879-07-26
JJLY26,1 1879
SIERRA BONITA RANCHE,
 July 12, 1879.
N-. cAarie5 Hudson Tucson, A. T.:


 N-. Charles Hudson Tucson, A. T.:
 Dear s.r: | lief: Tucson with II. c Rocker 70 pay d visit to his Sierra Bonita -@ache. We took our departure at ?. II ia a., e:n hulance, drawn by four young horses of his ow n raising. The ambulance t7 ,s wel loaded with goods, and besides GIT selves there WAS his servant James. who tool, care 0f the team. We reached Asa1tain Spring Station by ' o'clock, a drive of twenty three miles in three hc0:3. otcpcci here over night, rose e4T-y @eE- morning ald drove to Tres A.a.nos ;o breakfast This ranche IS owned hT Mir. Eackor srd is being con- v:rtca i1ta 14tt:. aaI cheese ngnufac- ;oTy, ft is admirably situated for the pu'posu, ts:o., oa tae stage road to Car.p Grant, Camp 3o0le, San Carlos Reservation srf New Mexico IL will De a5ort .s9 ;.2.les below the crossing Of the Southern Pac.fc Railroad, on the San Ecd:o r.icr. At pr near the crossing 3@. the stream bY the railroad, the com- f4e.cs ot the Tombstone, Mule Pass MAaataia and other great mining camps @iA i.acfU the building ofa considerable to.3u, which will open market for al! .hef cheese and butter that can be made, IL i9 Afr Uooker's intention to stock his rand fhe with I5O milk cows. Ninety cows an3 calves of best breeds for milk are all ready here, and a.visit to the milk house, wftieh is built over i spring of cool water, o2 Negroes Farenheit, reveals the fact that hn3i1ess has already begun. Here are aa1 nnm5er of large deep milk cans, eotered with cream several inches deep a<Ed tubs of delicious new, sweet butter Large tin lined vats have been provided far holding the milk that Is to be made into cheese, and everything else that
 necessary for the Inanufactory. The Epriug breaks out from the base Of the mesa which borders the river bottom and runs in hold strean through the troughs that hold the tubs Of butter and cans of Iailk. At breakfast had an opportunity io taste the butter and some gooa bread, and can safely say that 1t is inc only good batter Ihave seen in Pima County. It readily brings 50 cents pound,
 4 heavy rain detained us all day at this ranebe. Next morning we started after l4;e breakfast and drove 10 Sierra Bon u Tanche bJ D. m., a distance of fifty five mics. This thought was admirable wc-,c in hot weather and with loaded wagon for q team Of four year old horses. Sierra Bonita rancho is near the center of grcnp O: four others owned by MT Hooker. They are ali situated in a broad grassy valley between the Graham on The ea-. and GalIuro mountains on the west Dos Cabezas lies in full view to the south and Turnbu!l mountain to the north. They are all well watered by never failing springs and streams of water that rise and disappear within the bounds of the ranch es. Indeed, Mr Hooker cont ols all the water Gf aa area more thar twenty miles s9uara by United States patents. Two thousand head of graded cattle and 1000 csl7es dropped ihls year and over 25e fine graded horses and 100 colts are feeding over these vas. domains, and they are all tat, gentle and fine looking animals. h riding through this valley counted as many as six large bands of antelope that were quietly feeding with The cattle. an tod that deer and turkeys abound in the mountains. E. T. Cox.
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