Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-19
FAIL'S VALUES.
The BGsmeSS Ofa Successful Live Stock
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Ehe Ises- Country for Cattle Breeding of any Kind .efrigeratIng BeeC-Thc
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 in Arizona?
 About eght years. l am now alone. For awhile it was the firm Of Vail & Harvey.
 How many head of cattle have you nov?
 Well that Is a hard question to ans wer 4 cattle man never can know the exact number he has. presume I have somewhere about 1000 head. | have not counted my cattle for five years.
 How many GO you sell together?
 l sell as big bunch as | Can. never put up bunch of less than fifty head and generally from that up to two hun l ed.
 Where do you find a market?
 1 sell ID Tombstone and California principally. I have only made one ship ment this year to California. l have sold some to San Carlos and occasionally to Fort HuacLuca.
 How many head of cattle did you first buyg
 The first purchase l made was eight hundred head shat were brought by a
  cost me Sl6 per head.
 What price do you realize from your sales?
 l get three cents per pound for live beef. l do not deal at ell with tallow or hides. sell cattle for the beef en- tirely.
 Have you introduced any thorough breds?
 have the short-horns, Durhams, De- vons and Herefords. This year I have shipped in from Kentucky some of the Anguspoll, which have no horns.
 Where are your ranges?
 l have several ranges from the RincOns to the Santa Ritas, between which IS the Cienega ranch. The principal range IS in the Whctstones. They embrace about twenty square miles. There is plenty of grass all the year round. The cat tie have to travel good ways for it till spring.
 How many bulls do you keep?
 calculate to keep one bnl for every ten or fifteen COWS. sell only the males and COWS when they get old and fat.
 How many calves have yOu?
 Year before last branded l,4O0 calves on one ranch. l think we branded last year altogether about 2,00O calves.
 Are there any diseases among the cattle?
 There are no diseases among them that I am aware of. Two years ago l had some black leg. The heaviest per ceutage of loss Is among the calves and yearlings. After the calves are dropped there is not loss of two per cent. by death, and l thlnk that IS generally caused by the poverty O; their moth ers.
 Are you stIll buying?
 have bought cattle every year til thIs year. Last year 1 bought the Hap py Valley ranch and all the cattle, and the Stock Valley ranch and cattle. In those two ranches there were between three and four thousand head.
 Where IS your shipping point?
 When l ship to California l put the cattle on the cars at Pantano. l have scales there that can weigh two thousand head per day.
 How is the local market?
 There are lots of cattle for sale in the Territory. and will remain so tlll We find market We will have a surplus in the home market from this on. l don't think this surplus will reduce the price of beef. We are getting fair rates from the railroad company for shipment. My idea is that We will refrigerate our beef that IS not consumed. l am at present trying to make arrangements with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for refrigerating cars. I will build my own cars if the railroad company will allow me proper rates. If they will do so 1 will invest some S20.000 in refrigerating cars. We will put our own slaughter houses along the line of the railroad slaughter our own beef, pack It in ice, and ship it to New York.
 How is Southern Arizona suitable for breeding?
 IL is the best cattle breeding country I have ever seen. It is not good faitIng country. Further north 1t is far superior to this for fatting beef There R less mortality among the calves Up north when they have good years, they make money faster than we do here, but they run more risks.
 Have you attempted other branche
 ] have tried sheep. It is as poor a sheep country as I ever saw. Hogs do we'll. It IS the healthiest hog country I ever saw, but there is no feed for them in these parts. The Salt river is a num- ber one hog country because they can raise all the grain by irrigation that Is necessary. This Is a number one horse country. Horses do well here. They are very healthy. The summer does not affect them. I have a number of colts tha. never have been sick.
 I think that with proper stock to breed from, as good horses can be raised here as in Missouri or Kentucky, probably not so large hut just as good animals. The smaller breeds of cattle do better here than those Of the larger breeds of horses, cattle or sheep. My horses are doing very well. l have been raising ordinary horses the most of six or seven years for saddle use. l am going in to raise fine horses now. I have two Rise Dike Ham5letonians stal!iona Both are on the herd book. I have 8 fou--year old from Sultan. raised by l.. J. Rose. He was sired by Sultan. He is on tue herd book as Sir Richard. Ben Bolt and he wIll trot a milo 0gether m 2:j0. l am breeding these small horses because they are better saddle horses aud travellers.
 Vas there ever native horse iG Arr zona?
 When l came here I sent out a party Tn the foothills of the Ch!ricahua mouu- taIns. and they caught eight head of wlld Mexican horses. They were all mustangs. Some were of pretty good size. I attribute their size Co the fact that gentler stock had gotten away and mixed with them. 1 did not keep them L. ' .1- .
 Have you raised mules?
 l have brought Jack from Missouri, but I do not know whether he will be 8 success or not. 1 once bought band of mares with foal by jack. The mule colts I sold at Sl00 per head at four years old. This was in 1877.
 How long were you at the business before you realized any profit?
 I was three years in the cattle busi- ness before I had my first safes. 1 first sold at Tombstone and the Huachuca post. My sales have averaged for three years past S25,000 annually, From this on that will be much larger.
 At this point the reporter withdrew latisiied that biz stock ranch is a bet. SE financial investment than a news fgr.
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