The Arizona champion., 1888-04-28
WEEKLY CHAMPION,
STOCK NOTES.

The waters of the Little Colorado and Rio Puerco are higher than for years before, owing to copious rains and heavy snow falls in the White Mountains and on the Continental Divide.
 The practice of advertising cattle brands frequently saves many times the cost in the return of stray animals by those who have become familiar with the brands as shown in the ad- yertisements. ....
 The giant trust of the century is now organized. It is called the Dressed Beef Trust. Armour's motto is, "Thousands for charity and the people must pay me Millions for it. " Stock Grower. .... .. .
 At an informal meeting recently of a number of cattlemen of Dona Ana County, New Mexico, it was agreed that all cattle returns to the assessor should be made at s8 per head WILCOX StOCknidu.
 The Indians believe that the earth opened and swallowed up the buffalo that, only a few years ago, roamed over this country in countless mil lions. There is large cave near the British line at which Indian sentinels are constantly posted waiting for the buffalo to emerge.-Stock Growers Journal.
 There are. unfortunately, some very poor sheep still in Utah, whose ancestors were owned by the Nava- joes, small, thin, inbred, long legged, coarse and wild, which it is perhaps necessary to shear twice a year, be- cause if not sheared often there would be no wool to shear. Happily these sheep are decreasing in number, their owners realizing no money from them having sold out or purchased few good rams from their more enterpris. ing neighbors:: ...f.
 The Silver City Sentinel announces that big deal is about to be closed, whereby the greater portion of the water rights, ranges, titled and untit, led ranches, with their herds, in Grant County will pass into the hands of New York and New Mexico syn. dicate, who are owners of their own feeding sheds and slaughter houses at Kansas Oity, and wholesale and re. tail meat markets at Baltimore and New York. They also propose to put S5,ooo, 900 in ranches and cattle in adjoining counties in New Mexico. They have sIo, ,ooo, 1000 capital.
 The Phenix Gazette says tha, the Southern Pacific Railroad has carried out of Ari zona ao, 900 head of cattle for the year 1857, nearly all of which were taken to California for beef. The cattle industry of this territory is assuming huge proportions, and we miss our guess if this number will not be quadrupled in 1888. Arizona has long been known as the leading stock country of the world, her percentage of losses from exposure being smaller than in any other portion of the Uni. ted States. The cattlemen of this territory have been enriched from the Golden State the past year up. wards of 5000, ,ooo, money paid for choice beef.
 The Chicago & Alton Railroad Company, whose live stock traffic is the largest of all the western railways, makes the announcement that ship. ments of all classes of live stock load. cd in special or palace live stock cars whether belonging to private indivi duals, corporations or railroad com. panies, will be charged for between all stations on their lines at the rate named on like shipments in common or ordinary cars. The Chicago & Alton railway has taken a step in thi: matter which merits the approval and endorsement of every producer o live stock Tn the land. They have given also the eOnb de grace to thu common box car for shipments o live stock -Stock ErOwer