The St. Johns herald., 1885-07-23
Southwestern Stockman ::

| pOuluWoSJeTn DlOCkuudu. A
 number of the cattlemen of south
 eastern Arizona have determined
 upon making a trial of the Kansas
 Market and some days ago sent a consignment of several carloads of beef cattle to White & Holmes of
 that city. The consignors were George Hill, of Bowie Station, ? cars; Lane Fisher, of Duncan, 4 cars; P. F. Buck, of Duncan, 2 cars; and Hart Bros. of Lords
 burg, N. M., 6 cars. We have not learned the prices obtained, but if satisfactory, these shipments will Ibe succeeded by numerous others, as there are many beef cattle in the county. ~
 Beef and Bullion: It doesn't take people long to find out that running a newspaper in Arizona is rapid road to wealth. Two more papers will be started within the next two weeks, one at Casa Grande, by Mir. Elliott, and Hoof and Horn, a stock paper at Pres colt. The latter should be sue cess, as there are at present only three daily papers at Prescott and the town contains nearly half as many inhabitants as Tucson.
 Kansas Cow Boy: Some of our ranchmen are embarking in the business of raising buffaloes. There are about fifty head on the range of the Francklyn Land and Cattle Company, and there are some buffaloes on the Goodnight range. c. P. Jones, of Garden City has also some. The Franklyn com pany are paying fifty dollars a head for buffalo calves. There is a herd of 400O bufaloes on the Neutral Strip. When buffalo robes are worth from $15 to $20 a piece, and buffalo steak 124 cents a pound in the Dodge City market, itwould seem as if there was money in buffalo raising. A dozen years ago millions of buffaloes roamed at will over the plains, and they were slaughtered for fun and their robes. It would not be surprising if they would yet be more valuable than beef cattle.
 Beef and Bullion: MT. Achen- bach, manager of the Arizona Live Stock and Improvement Co.,, is in town from the company's ranch, 15 miles east of Mesaville, in Pinal county. The company is an Iowa organization, with $50,- GOO cash capital paid up at par, with interest at 8 per cent added, from date of organization. No | Stock jobbing foolishness about that. The capital will soon be in creased. On the ranch are several silver mines, belonging to an affiliated concern (The Ida Gold | and Silver Mining Company, on which considerable work has been i done. It's from the shafts of these mines that the company gets it's water supply, which is hoisted by pumps. The pumps and corral have just been completed.
 Tucson Star: The initial days drive from this point northward of a bunch of 1 ,500 head of cattle was begun yesterday by Eugene Shaw and l.. A. Smith. The cattle are mostly yearlings and two-year-olds, and were purchased by the Wabash Cattle company from Messrs. Juan Elias and Sabino Otero. The cat tie will be driven to the Navajo Springs ranch, in Apache county, near the line of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, distance from this place about $50 miles. The route taken will be by Steel's ranch near Eureka Springs, Rockers ranch, Fort Thomas, crossing the Gila river a short distance above the sub-agency, and proceeding thence to Fort Apache. The outfit consists of seventeen vaqueros, each with three mounts, and two wagons loaded with supplies. It is expected