The Arizona champion., 1888-05-19
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
STOCK NOTES.

During April, 1888, Chicago re. ceived 6,6o3 carloads of all kinds of live stock, against I6, ,o6S for March, 1888, and I3,ISa cars for April, SS7, Shipments 6,4o5 cars, against 4.7S6 for Aprll, 1887. a.,.. 5 'Hea-..as
 MT. ]. x. Woods left here the first of the week for his stock ranch, loca- ted about fifty miles south, of .Winslow Tn the Mogollon district. He will shear upwards of five thousand sheep this season.-News.
 Fl Paso (Tex.) Tribune: A num- Der of wells have been sunk in the tornado and a number of ranches have been located. The tornado affords excellent grass, and will feed thousands.oi cattle. y
 The best corn fed cattle went into the Denver market the past week at three and three-quarters cents. The very tops at four cents. Cows, hay fed, sold as low as three cepts. Hogs went from $. 90 to s. 4s. 7 Sheep from four and half to five cents, unshorn. ,a< ......S f.....,
 It is estimated by Senator,r Ingalls, that if there were TO accretions to our population all the pubic domain will be taken up within twelve years. Immigration is, however, so great and is likely to continue in such in. creasing humber, that in six years there will be no more land to acquire by the present land laws. l& & SE
 John Sparks and John Tinnin are the cattle kings of the whole west. Together, these gentlemen, who left Texas nos so many years ago with com paratively small capital, now own over 100, 900 head and employ sixty. five men. Their ranges are. scattered over the west, having herds in Texas. Nevada and Wyoming.
 August Campbell, the well.known stockman, of Grant County, has been in the Salt River Valley, Arizona, buying cattle. The area of land there under successful alfalfa cultivation causes him to remark that there IS forage enough in the vicinity of Phe- nix 10 iatten, all the steers in New Mexico. Alfalfa is the modern phil. osopher's stone. It turns everything 1t touches into gold. Stock Grower.
 Hon. Patrick Hamilton, of Ari- zona, who has been in San Diego for the past five months, on account of ill health, tells the San Diego Union that the bloom" in Southern Cali fornia has opened markets for all the beef which Arizona has to sell. h. stead of shipping to, Kansas City or Chicago there is how nearer and more lucrative market either in San Diego or Los Angeles. Reno Gazette
 The testimony among stockmen, who have ridden the range every spring for years, is that cattle never looked so well at this season of tine year. as they do at present. This seems to be the case in every state and territory where the range industry IS pursued. Our exchanges from Wy. oming, Colorado, New Mexico, Adj zona and Texas bring the same good news. EsitBWGl
 William ]. Johnson, sstockman living south of Wichita, Kansas was last week fatally mapgled by a vicious stallion. He was feeding the brute when il seized his head between its teeth and took of an ear and most oi the scalp, Johnson only got loose to find his shoulders crushed in the jaws of the savage beast Alter being hor 1 irbly Iacerated, he managed 10 throw himself out of reach of the horse, where heslay until, found by, his wife,
 Acorrespondeat of the Rural World say.: The secret of the superiority Of California hotses'is in the. food Bar, ley was, ages ogo, discovered to be ! great natural horse food. Sonmi, oi the Emperor Napoleou's staf, during the CBgyptian txpedl,ion, confirmed it. It would be but little trouble of ,xperse for som- ,oi ourffeeders to Try ,he food snggested. m anexperi mental way, iai:d perhaps through its agency be enabled to produce a two minute gJpiter -Texas Stockman.
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