Arizona citizen., 1879-02-01
Goats.

Governor Fremont, in his message to the Legislature, lays considerabl, stress on the Angora goat industry, by inference encouraging the same. The San Francisco Alta, quoting the goat passage in the message, tells what il knows about the sltltudinously rowing goat, as follows:
 The animals have a healthy lock the fleece Is beautiful and very prepu- seSslng ID appearance, the best qual- ities or wool command good pllce, the pelts make beautiful roOes and rugs, the meat ut the kids Id delicacy, the tanned skins are good material for gloves; but tue preceding Of the AngoIa goat for it's fleece Is fail ure in California, where it has now been tried for twenty years, aS in Keu- lucky and Georgia Tor thirty years, anu Tn France for half century. In live years after the irsI Merlno sheep had been brought tO California for wool. growing purposes, Ihe fist importer had made a fortune. and wool had become a prominent article of expur- lstion. In twenty years the Angpra wool has not been able 10 OblaIn a mention in tho ordinary annual sum. maries of exports The men who have goats for sale al high prices tell about shipments of AEg1ra wool, but the records of the commercial newspapers know nothing Of them, and the large shippers of wool and the annual wool circulars take nO account of them. So far as We can learn no herd of goats iu this State yields enough wool tO pay the interest on their cost and the expense of keeping them; and ever, person prominent as the owner UI them looks for his main profits not to his wOol.clip, but tO the purchase of his bucks by Ignorant and deceived customers. The production of Ang ,ra wool may ultimately be q success in California; hitherto It has been most complete fail Ire as source of profit tn those who made the venture. We called attention tO ihe evidences ot failure len years ago, and repeatedly since, and in all that period, sn far as we remember, the only journal to side with Us has been the Bulletin, while the Rural Press, the Farmer, the Agri- culluriSt, Weulworlh's Resources, the Santa Barbara Press, and many others complained that we were iujuring d valuable industry. We invite those journals io stale their information and opinions about Ihe Angora wool in- dustry in Califo,nia, and 10 supply statistics of the shipments. It IS re- portei that there are 5O,000 high grade goats in the State.
 What the Alta contends may be un- fortunately true. But it is really pro- voking that the moment q man of cul- ture and taste evolves beautiful idea or theory, the groveling world imme- diately wants 10 know, you know, if the thing is profitable. IL does seem as if the mass could never be brought to contemplation and realization of the beautiful unassOciated with mere gain. Now here was Governor Ere mont with an aSthetic taste cultivated Tn Paris,-(O, no, no, no; how could we; no, not Paris: out damned spot) in Washington; and he rides into thIs homely land and gets to Prescott, and everything, (excepting his reception, which was so like Washington affairs everything, we were saying, is dull, plodding and commonplace. There was really nothing to appeal 10 hIs sense of tue lovely until he happened, in rowing, to get windward view of MT. Hardy's goa s. Here at last is the beautiful in Arizona. And he tells his legislature all about it and the golden fleece on the rocks. And now comes a worldly minded paper and says Angora goats are not profitable. Well, perhaps they are not; but in pity's sake why speak of the thing in that light. If it is meant in kindness to the Governor, it is misplaced. The Governor doesn't intimate any inten- iinn of going into the goat business himself. He merely introduces the goat to his people. Let them buy them, and buy rocky, picturesque land scapes, and put the goats on Ihe rocks for efect,-and, and probably lose money; and the goats will look nice and the lungings of the Governors soul will be satisfied. Not profitable, for soolh!