Arizona silver belt., 1886-10-09

The management of range herds j,
not greatly unhkr the management of
business m any other line Where
the best brain, and widest experience
are employed the returns are the Mr-
gest,
The HooC and Horn claims that the
calf crop in YavapaI county, this sea
son, will come up fully to 80 per cent
1t Is also stated that stock cattle are
in fire condition, better prepared for
the winter than they were year ago
Two things have come forcibly to
the mind of the cattlc-raiser while he
has been contemplating the effects of
the drouth. The alfalfa patch and the
development Of an underground water
supply must become in many localities
a saving clause in range cattle raising
--Inter-RepubHes.
The FL Paso Tribune states that She
Mexico and Texas Land & Cattle Com
pany who are making a large ship
ment of Young female cattle from
MEXICO to Arizona (where they 60 for
breeding purposes) have been COM
PEELED to pay duty, by Judge Mogaifn,
collector of customs,
A bunch of l 800 fine-looking MoM-
can cattle passed through this city
Sunday en- route for the ranch of the
Wabash Cattle Company at Navajo,
Arizona, They were put up by Messrs.
Beatty and Waddell, of this city. They
are handled as easily at the yards in
this city as any of the range cattle
passing through here,-El Paso Inter-
Republics.
Charles Goodnight, the Panhandle
cattle king, has in his Palo Duro ranch,
100000 acres of land, on which Craze,
browse and roam $4,000 head of cattle,
of which 1000 are shorthorn bulls,
varying from three-quarter breeds to
full.bloOd. In the northern portion
OF his ranch he has 5000 head Of thor
Oughbred'shorthorns, in an Enclosure
to themselves, from which he raises
bulls,
Mr.. Ames, of Flagstaff, Arizona,
passed through New Mexico this week
with eighteen carloads of what was
pronounced, by those who saw them,
TO be the prettiest lot of stock cattle
which have ever been taken into Arr
IONA. There were 500 in the lot and
they were all purchased in Cofey
county, Kansas. They were Of Here
ford and Shorthorn breeding, and pre-
sented beautiful appearance.-N. NJ.
Stock Grower.
The offerings Of range cattle in the
Kansas City market this week have
steadily increased from day to day, the
bulk Of which have been sent in from
Colorado, Texas and Arizona The
quality was fair to medium, with
few that could be classed as fat cattle.
The general effect Of so many lmma-
ture cattle being thrown on the mar
ket was to weaken prices, which on
the lower grades slumped five to ten
oents.--N. N. Stock Grower.
The value of such protection as our
Quarantine law is supposed to give the
cattle raiser, (says the n. NJ. Stock
Grower will appear more forClbly at
the present time than for some time in
the past, in view of the sudden and
alarming outbreak Of pleuro-pneumo-
MIA at Chicago, The west has reason
to be alarmed. Every rangeman will
look TO the outcome of the efforts now
being made to suppress the disease
there with no little anxiety. Shall it
spread further west and the contagion
appear among cattle in any of the
states contiguous to the range coun-
try, the grazing area of the west will
very likely be visited by the death
dealing enemy of the cattle herds
The COmanche Indians, in the In
dian Territory, own 125,OOO head of
cattle and $4,000 horses, and besides
this wealth in stock, the revenue from
pasturing white mems cattle will.
hereafter, amount to 100000 per an
mum. 1t is estimated that in five
years they will be the richest Indians
IN the country. Capt. Hall, Indian
Agent, says that the cattle industry
on the kiowa and Comanohe reserva-
tlon was never in a more four1shing
condition, and is alike satisfactory to
white men and Indians. Grass is
short, but abundant, aud the prospect
for the winter range never was better.
Cattle are fat as butter, and the ship.
ment Of beeyes has already begun and
will be as large as usual.
From the testimony elected in the
investigation of the pleuro-pncumo-
MIA outbreak, at Chicago, it is evident
that the disease has been hanging
about the Phoenix distiIIcry sheds for
q year or more Il was rJ,rfho,, gb,,,,,, (