Arizona republican., 1897-12-07

krook, Ariz., Dec 5.-(Special hndence of The Republican, J.
 pr Frank T. Aspinwan, ex-
 kllam R. Campbell, ex-
 ed w. Nelson and ex-Pro-
 F. M. Buck is largely due
 having an act passed by
 Blat1re creating Navajo
 that part of Apache
 Coconino on the west,
 lila on the south and
 th The length of the
 ates 26O miles, while
 ry from fifty to sev-
 he Santa Fe Pacific
 V-seven and one
 is from Currizo,
 a point less than
 |of Wins1ow.
 1TrtN is essentially the
 le cowboy, and fIolbrook
 "a great plalce of rendezvous
 class. Eastern people have
 peculiar notions of the cow
 s true there was a time when
 devil fellows would assem-
 gn and indulge in a ''hot
 e boys were not at heart
 kthey only wanted a little recreation. sAnd if a gun was heard hopping it dtd not signify that war for breakfast, was to be recorded Of course there were such instances, be canse im the ranks of the cowboy a bad man was occasionally found just as YOU would find such men in ceT- tain districts~in Chicago or New York. Things are different now and would regard trip through any country as safe, if not safer than : through Dearborn or some other streets in Chicago.
 The county assessors books show on one million acres of assessable land in Navajo county valuation of s510,e68 improvements thereon, $147, O21; town and city, lots, valuation, S94 4,627; miles of railroad, 57, and as- sessed valuation $2S5, ,04G; total as- sessed valuation, $1,363,016; horses assessd at 2,176; cattle, 9,529; sheep 3O0,O0O. The figures on sheep require an explanation, which is made to place Navajo county in a better light with reference to the focks that giraze and for which the cattlemen have nc love, but we must have them for the chops, and the clips made semi-an- nually It is not generally understood that Maricopa county gets a rake oh on feeders, and Navajo has from 6O,- 900 to 275, 900 down there at times Sixty thousard Navajo county sheer were assessed in Maricopa last year By an act of the legislature, it is in- cumbent on the owners of stock tc pav the proportion of county taxes where said stock is fed, figuring by months and paying the pro rata Of the yearly rate. Heretofore the county in which stock was wintered, and il is easy enough to locate that county took the whole "cheese," and the county in which the stock belonged lost the taxes on stock so1ournlne outside of its corporate limits. The tax is only S3.10 per hundred. and while on the subject it is we'll to say that the tax list of 1896 shows bu $1OO delinquent, record the ole counties cannot present. Goof enough for the "baby" county, ant thanks to an efficient set of officials The following residents pay Cir round n,1mbers) the biggest sums int the county treasury as shown by Treasurer Scott's books: Santa F. Pacific, 5000; Aztec Cattle company S4.OGG; Henry Timing, s,Ockman O Show Low, $721 (Mr. filming has stocl l. in Apache and pays thereon at St Joh s); Arizona Co-cp ins itu ion Holbrook and Snow Flake, $502; F Hicks, real estate owner, Winslow s575; A. and B. Schuster, merchants Holbrook, $40; J. H. Breed of Breet 6 Rand, merchants, Winslov, s242 F. T. Le Prade, real estate and oper; house owner, Winslow, S1S7; Lesse & Sawyer, merchants and brick man ufacturers, Winslow, $13S; F. c. Dem arrest, hotel man and real estate own CT. V7inslow, s20O.
 The great register of 1896 shows registration of 7S2 and the count. population is placed at 5,172- Soul of Holbrook are the following place having 300 population Or less: For Apache, ninety-nine mics distant Pine Top, Show Low, fifty-five miles Juniper, Pinedale. Heber, ShumWay