Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-12-14
RICH GRAZING.
WHERE NATURE PROVIDES PLENTY
 FOR ANIMAL LIFE.

WHERE NATURE PROVIDES PLENTY
 FOR ANIMAL LIFE.
 A Monarch of all he surveys-Ranch of Twenty-Five Thousand acres in North
 ern Arizona.
 Corr. Prescott JournatMiner)
 Some two weeks ago, Thomas Sheri- dan, George Augustine and myself | started to make an investigation of the | country north of the Atlantic & Pacific | railroad, ostensibly to find stock ranch es, and have general hunt. We took | four-horse team with camp outfit, | and two saddle horses. Left William son valley on the 8th of this month, passed over the rolling country the first day to Ross upper stock ranch in Chino valley, passing large herds of cattle and horses, living on very short grass. Cattle, however, are looking better than would be expected con- sidering the grass. Next day we camp ed at J. w. Sullivan's where we found Jerry and his men, with large band of beef cattle in the corral ready for shipment to California. Jerry is just of the 'schawed off and his beeves are fat and tender, as we know by the fine roast Jimmy Taylor set before us. After spending pleasant night, "gass- ing" with all hands, we started on to- wards Seligman, where we had an ad- dition to our party, in the person of Schenck Jacoby, a merchant of said town, who desired to rusticate and have a jolly good time, he said, in the hills. We camped the first night at large tank, called Cullen's Wells, in a cluster of cedar timber, with grass around and few of stock here and there. Next morning we moved ten miles to
 KEE-sEE-HAH
 ranch, owned by L. D. Gale. This is fine stock range, with plenty of wa ter, as MT. Gale has good well of wa ter at the depth of nine feet, where the flow prevented sinking deeper. This place would carry 1000 head of stock, and at the present time there are not dozen head within ten miles. Why does not some of our stock men that have poor ranges give MT. Gale call? It Is a sin to starve stock on the exhausted ranges around our set tied valleys, when good range can be obtained so near, going to waste. Without doubt, colt raised from the same sire and dam, in this section, would bring twice the amount that it would raised on the "chawed off of 1kl. valleys.
 After passing pleasant night by the side of big camp fire, in company with MT. Gale and some "other" Wal lapais, and listening to the melodious voice of the coyote, interspersed with the mournful howl of the lobo, we broke camp and passed over into one of the
 FINE GRASS VALLEYS
 of Northern Arizona, twenty-five miles wide by thirty-five miles in length, with not hoof of domestic stock, nothing but antelope and iack-rabbits. I with .Sissr in Ellsss tootrniIIs. After paas- | were we fotnd the owner of the rangS Dud Holister, and old-time Arizonan, who is as happy and proud of his pine clad mountain home and one hundred horses, as Ward McAlister was of his four hundred dudes and dudes. And why should he not be, for he can look to the east and the west and not a white mans house for thirty miles, with the Grand Canyon to the north, and the great Aubrey plain south of him. He 1t is who can say, "I am monarch of all survey, with none to dispute" And yet, Dud's great range is small when compared to his big heart, as every old-timer will bear me out who has had to pass over that bloody road from Prescott to Hardy vile, in the days when every bush had thorn, and every thorn a Wallapai behind it, shooting sharp sticks at him. After having a good old-time
 
 O.
 WILD HORSE RANGE.
 This is range all fenced in, and con- tains not less than 25,0O0 acres. Ii our old democratic friend, Bevans, was here, fear he would want to tear Dud's fence down. Now, don't want you think I am giving Dud's fence away, so that the government agent will go and destroy it, nor yet think that exaggerate when I say he has %, 900 acres under fence, for it is one grand park in Mah-Hah canyon, with dozen springs of pure water. The fence is at least 2,000 feet high, all but one panel, and that is composed ol three bars or rails extending from wall to wall. This canyon is tribu tary to the Grand Canyon of the Colo rado, and easy to get into, but it is g young sheol to get to the river. Don't try it, or you will be falling over bluff: for week after.
 Now, in conclusion I will say, thar where we have been, there is no watel on the surface for stock, but at severa places water has been obtained by } sinking, and can be saved in reservoir at small cost, almost any place; anc the rainfall is sufficient for all purpos } es if sufficiently utilized. There ar, ) many small valleys, with fine land , that will, without doubt, raise smal grain without irrigation, and potatoe :; and garden stuff with irrigation. I l might be well for Prescott's board o trade to call the attention of our dele g gate to the said fact Prescott, November %, 1889. , J. R Thomas Topics.
 Corr. Solomonville Bu1letin) n E- There are rumors of Indian trouble c at and near San Carlos. Nothin
 definite