The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-05-31
StOck and Range.


that if there were no accretions to
our population all the public do
main will be taken up within twelve
years. Immigration is, however,
so great and is likely to continue in
six years there will be no more land
to acquire by the present land laws.
August Campbell, the well-known
stockman of Grant county, has
been in the Salt River Valley, Ari-
zOna, buying cattle. The area Of
land there under successful alfalfa
cultivation causes him to remark
that there is forage enough in the
vicinity of ~Ph@nix to fatten all the
steers in New Mexico. Alfalfa is
the modern philosophers stone. 1t
turns everything it touches into
gold.-Stock Grower.
A correspondent of the Rural
World says: The secret of the su-
periority of California horses is in
the food. Barley was, ages ago,
discovered to be great natural
horse food. Sonini, Of the Empe-
ror Napoleon's staff, during the
Egyptian expedition, confrmed it.
1t would be but little trouble or ex-
pense for some of our breeders to
try the food suggested in an exper-
imental way, and perhaps through
its agency be enabled to produce q
two minute. trotter-Tcx. Stockman.
Meyer Half, disinterested spec
tator, tells the Texas Stockman that
the land fraud prosecution in New
Mexico is a very thinlY gilded
fraud that the few who ought to
be hunted, are let alone, while those
who have located in good faith and
with good intention, are hauled up
on the strength of alleged inform
alities in their title and put to great
expense and inconvenience, while
not one case in ten is made to stick.
Says the shyster lawyers and same
kind of judges, who are in New
Mexico because they can't stay any
where else, are obtaining money
from the government under false
pretenses.
A. Morton, of Tequesquite, is an
other victim of the tender policy of
the administration which compels
citizens of this territory to be drag
ged into the courts, or the reports
of special agents, without just cause.
Mr. Morton has to appear at the
United States court held in Las We
gas to answer to illegal fencing Of
the public domain. Considering
that Mr.. Norton has never. erected,
or caused to be erected, fence of
any kind since he has been in New
Mexico, this outrageous proceeding
of the government in his case is
what has turned Mr. Morton to look
with favor upon 4 change Of the
party in power to that party which
shall protect and not persecute the
citizens of the west.
Cattlemen on the southeastern
border of the Territory are COM
planning Of the great numbers of
cattle from Texas that are being
driven across the, line into Lincoln
county, and say that the practice
has been carried to such an extent
that it is beginning to be very Sc
riouS question with our own ranch
men in that vicinity as to what they
are to do for grass. A drove of
twelve hundred head of New Mexi-
co cattle, coming from the district
referred to, crossed the river at this
point yesterday on the way to Ari-
zona, and the proprietor stated that
he had been crowded out, and was
going to find. pasture for his ami
mails. We learn that very little
respect is paid to the quarantine
laws, but that when the Texans get