Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-02-18

afhe water from this reservoir is COT
 duoted in 6 canal down our msiu valley
 which is twenty miles long by about fiy
 miles wide, and there is is distribute
 over the plains. As our business IS er
 tirely the rsisiDg of live stock, psrticr
 lsrly cattle, we do very little in grair
 though ve raise very fine quality c
 grain, sufficient for our own use. Ou
 principal aim is to secure hay enoug
 for the feeding of beeves and poor stoc
 during the wint season. Alfalfa is th
 principal hay we raise. The lands ths
 the q vernment, 6 few years ago, woul'
 not allow to be surveyed, as they ver
 not considered valuable enough 10 ps
 for the expenses of surveying, which csI be proven by reference to the govern
 ment maps of the es-ly days of the sur
 veys of Nevsds, are returning our com
 psny four tons of alfalfa to the aore. Tn
 value of this alfalfa to us can hardly b
 estimated, especially ID such c season a
 this. I was offered s15 ton for sll tb'
 hay could spare, in the stack, for th' purpose of feeding stsrvipg cattle, Hs,
 has been shipped from Reno 10 tb'
 ranges st sn expense to the stock-ovper
 of at least s20 per ton. Its value can b'
 readily understood when i. IS knowI that perhaps one ton of hay will pull
 through a sssson like this three or foul
 aninals."
 "what is the eItent of your preset rsnch?"
 We are only ID our infancy regarding this line of business, last year was the first year We obtained & crop. We have very nearly fifteen hundred acres of land under cultivation. mostly slfslfs- A yer! small portion Of this, however, was cni ever last yea. We cut 1000 tons ot alfsifs and are feeding it to 2,cO0 head Of stock We shall increase this smount of hay to about 4,0O0 tons this coming season, and each year we will increase the acre age of alfalfa about five hundred acres, and will not stop until ve have arrived st the limit of our reservoir"
 Will this system of caring for stock pay? Is there not too much expense at- tached to itY'
 There was time, under the old sys tenn of carrying on cattle business on the ranges. that they could afford to lose one-halt of the stock and still make money. but thst dsy IS over. The range is no longer vhst i, n-ed be. The eI- pense of handling cattle on the ranges Is far greater than :t uss s few years ago. and if no care is taken of these cattle on the elevated lspas of Nevada during these hard winter months, it will be but short time before there will be DO range cattle. A year ago. at the cat tie convention st Chicago, had inter views with many of th4 rsnchmen of the plains. and they hsd all come to the conclusion that We must adopt a very different system from that of the past. The losses nave been beyond estimation. As the population increases the ranges are being built up and the business csn- not be conducted ss it has been"
 THE FUTURE OF THE BEEF BUSINESS.
 What do you think of the future of the beef businessg
 {" may say that consider the beef in- du5try of America as important as the bread question. l. the great losses of he past are to continue. vhst IS the Ie- .ultI Has America got to come down to oe less of beef-esIIng country? Beef must certainly become sosroe. There Till not be this surplus of beef in the ss there has been during the osst ten tears, for the reason that these 'snges are all giving out, immigration increasing snd the range decreasing. No person in the industry nsed be dis outraged, however. The demsnd for 'eef IS increasing, and with the ephsnc d value of b ef greater care vill be sken of the cattle snd 6 higher grade | sised. Such enterprises ss ours will b. | ngsged in and they will be remunera- i've"
 What do you think of Senator Stew rt's bill on water storsge?'
 Senator Stewart has taken quite an interest 10 this enterprise and II has been tten talked about and watched by him Tith great deal of interest. His bill for the purpose of making government urveys and explorations in the noun sin dIstrlc e, typographical and hydro rsphicsl, to find out where such nstursl dvsntsges lie. The old system of gov surveys IS practically useless iu ar mountain lands. The rectangular Tstem adopted by the government is II right for the plain lands, but is not sll adapted to mountain lands If understand Senator Stewards bill, II to make these surveys like the system 1opted by the meIicsns, or the old Mex sn league system of metes and bounds, lovinR the topographic and hydro rspic charscteristics of the country. IL proposed to make the wster-storage lestiop, for the purpose of reclaimine -id lands, 6 great feature. Few per- 'ns are aware how many such advants- eous localities can be found. Ip the ttle district where our enterprise IS To- tied can point out three or four ed- irsble locations for water storage. srge ss ours may be. 1t is very email 'mpsred with manY others that csu be und" Mr. Parkinson exhibited a number o, ,otoRrsphic views, showing the dam, , e reservoir, the home ranch, with the ees growing and the flowers blooming , The yard, the slists fields, with the en gathering the hay and other scenes.