The Arizona champion., 1886-02-06
WEEKLY CHAMPION
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1886.
STOCK NOTES.

Montana was not represented at the Denver Range cattle convention.
 Pleuro pneumonia, Texas fever and other ills which cattle are subject to, are unknown in Arizona.
 The heaviest stock losses from the recent storms appear to be in Kansas and eastern Colorado.
 MT. H. Warren, manager of the Aztec Cattle company, is in Wash ington lobbying against the quaran- tine law.
 Joel B. Gentry, the widely known breeder of fine stock in Pettis county, Missouri. died last week. Mir. Gen try was only sa years of age.
 The average amount of meat con- sumed in the United States last year was something in the neighborhood or SI,Soo, ,ooo, 900. Including all animal products the amount per year will be about s,, 800, ,ooo, ,ooo.
 It is said that James R. Lassator, who owns ranch near Soldier Hole, has the finest artesian we'll ln Sulphur Spring valley. Water was struck al a depth of I2o feet, and large and continuous flow was obtained.
 Messrs. Elsea, Gibson & Kinnison report that stock is doing we'll upon their range in northern Yavapai coun- ". close on to the Utah border. There is just enough snow there to let them out to fresh feed and not enough 10 cover up the feed, ..E .. ".
 Cattlemen and others visiting Wins. low will find the best meals at Cole. mans American Chop House. This Is the headquarters tor stockmen at this town, where guests will always receive polite attention and be pro, vided with the best edibles the market can supply.
 A cattleman named Smith, who lief, Texas several months ago with herd of LOGO head of cattle for ranch in the vicinity of Duncan, Arizona, has lost thus far about 100 head, and has now turned the balance of the herd loose for the winter in Lincoln coun. ty, New Mexico. He lost about 4oo head at one alkali hole.
 A bill has been introduced by Van Wyck in the United States senate providing for the taxation of unpat, cnted lands owned by railroad corpor. atioas, requiring such companies to pay the cost of surveying and locat- ing the Ian ds within sixty days after the passage of the act, or that in de. fault thereof the lands Sha be subject 10 entry under the homestead and pre- emption laws, and liable to taxation.
 The Santa Fe New Mexican says that the A. T. x S F. railroad com papy have ordered their solicitor to commence action. 10 rest the ConSti. nationality of the New Mexican quar- antlne law. We suppose the portion of the law which Is open to objection, IS that which compels the stockhold- CTS to pay inspection fees. 1.-the law IS declared unconstitutional, 1t may be question whether those who have paid inspection fees cannot recover from the Territory.-Liye Stock Jour. nal.
 The Tombstone Demoeraf says that the three Cochise county stock grow CTS associations, the San Pedro, the Southwestern and the Tombstone, held meeting at Benson, and formed an organization to bs known as the General SlockgrowerS' Association of Arizona" They elected officers, ordered that the association meet semi annually at Benson, and that an as. sessment not exceeding two cents a head be made on cattle. As this seems to be a Cochise county affair all through, why does 1t assume to be Territorial and call itself The Gener- al Stockgrowers' Association of Ari- zona?"
 Col. K. C.. Head is a man of no
 
 mean abilities. He understands tts situation of the range as we'll perhaps as any other man. He recently dc- hated some very good advice to the Texas cat'lemen, m their conyeutit n. He advised every effort to be made to secure outlets for Texas cattle ly re- frigerators near the stock ranges and the sending of meat by the raisers to the consumers market direct, and to have connection by railway with the stock breeding districts ard so De able to balance the qualities likely to press against the stock interests. Mir. Head also made significant reference To Old Mexico as the future breeding grounds Of the wesi and as proper outlet and method Of disposing of surplus female stock in dotting them over tine vast and now vacant grass plains of north. ern Mexico: climate. grass and posi- ton rendering il desirable breeding region which foreign capital will soon take up If American capital overlooss it's advantages.
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