The Arizona champion., 1888-06-30
STOCK NOTES.
News of interest 10 cattlemen Taken From Exchanges.

for the number of cows in Wyom, ing as this year.
 The republicans of the First Illinois District nominated Colo mel Abner Taylor, member of the we'll known Texas cattle syn dicate for Congress.
 P. P. naggs, who raises more wool than any other man in Ariz- ona, was in Prescott during the present week, wearing the prosper ous air that belongs to man whose wool clip of the past season nstted him $40, ,ooo-Hoof and Horn.
 Eastern butchers are carefully figuring on the feasibility of pool. ing ihsir qrder2 in train load lots and sending direct to the ranges for beef the coming fall. Come right along, gentlemen, our latch strings are out and we will treat you we'll
 The manifest disposition en the part of the owners of ihs million and half small western mares to breed up in size is an encouraging feature of the business. Large, eOuCaied horses are always sale able, while the smIIl, wild ones are hardly worth paying taxes on.
 Fort Collins (Col.) Courier: A worm, said by some to be the ar my worm, is attacking and des- troying alfalfa in this valley. Ex- Senator Rhodes has last I2o acres, Frank C.. Routt, about a5 acres, and ]. C. Brown, about 25 acres. It is also working upon corn. peas and other green stuff.
 Wm. A. Doble, father of Budd Doble whose,name is familiar one wherever the tsotter is known, is now seyenty-six years old, and is as lively as most men at sixty. At the opening of the Suffolk Park races at Philadelphia recently, Mir. Doble was present and enjoyed the sport. He has driven horses in races until the present season.
 By a dispatch from Stewart, Col, we see that a gang of COW. boys took possession of the town a few days ago, fired over hundred shots, and pretty nearly demoral- ized the postoffice of the place, What the postofice had done to the boys we are not informed. Probably it failed to produce a letter from their respective girls upon their return from the round. up, as they had Agured on.
 One of the interesting and novel features of a new packing house now building in Chicago, will be the ice machincs of the ammonia compression kind, which manu- factuIe Ia5 tons oi ics a day. These machines will cost S2o, 900 alone. They will bring down the temperature in the chilling rooms below zero. The capacity for stor- ing on the premises will be 2s .oco barrels. All the slaughtering, will. of course, be done right on the premises.
 A recent cablegram from Lon don says: The great ten mile race between cowboys from the wide wild west of the United States, members ef Buffalo Bills compa- py, riding their bronchos against Englishmen on English horses, took place to day. The cowboys came out first, winning in twenty one minutes. The event has long been looked forward to with great and general interest. aad the con test must have been witnessed by fully 10000, people.
 Major ]. ". Donnelly, of the Atlantic and & Pacific land office, who has just returned from Arizona and who was accompanied by J. c. Hill, manager of Stephen and porsey's Colfax county ranch, states that he sold 10 Mir. Dorsey a tract of about o,ooo acres, which will be used foy 2 breeding ranch. MT. Hill remained in Ari- zona, visiting the different valleys, and will probably purchase con siderable land for small herders of cattle who are now located in Colfax county. The present pur. chase of land. was made Tn the Hualapai valley, near Kingman, and is a fine ytract of grass grow ing land.-Albuquerque Citizen.
 A stock company to be organ ized under the laws of the territory of New Mexico, in which parties named Hammond, Baker and Dane, is reported to have in con temptation the establishing of an immense ranch in New Mexico on capital stock of SIo, 900, ,ooo, which will control some sso,ooo head of cattle. One hundred thou. sand acres of land and 40, 900, head of cattle have been purchased in the southwestern part of the terri. tory from Doc. Bolton, of Texas, and negotiations are about com pleted for the procurement of other large tracts, of lands surroun- ding that already secured. The association is known as the New York and New Mexico Meat Com.