The Arizona sentinel., 1897-10-30
YUMA, ARIZONA, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 3O 1897.

They shoaId not only be thorough
 bred, but they should be nigh bred and of the best beef producing strains. The time viii come in this
 Territory and in thi. city when the farmer or the rangeman can bring
 his threc-year-oId thoroughbred steer into this market aud receive $75 to $100 for 1t on foot
 This cannot be done, however, by
 taking young and small and low
 bred bulls even if they are thorough
 bred and registered and crossing them with native, no bred poor COWS. It is the law of nature as well as the law of heredity that like produces like. To expect great. nice, square buttocked, big breast ed, deep shouldered, solided meated animals from dWarfed and scrubbey parents is the height of folly If 1 were a rancher or stockman ard wanted to raise cattle for profit 1 would buy as many high bred, large boned, beefy Shorthorn cows as 1 could and as many similarly bred bulls as l needed and would breed them as carefully and sys- tematicaliy as l would were 1 breed ing horses for the turf. Only by systematic, intelligent, and careful breeding whether on range.or farm can the cattle interests of this Ter ritory be brought to that state of advancement that the best interests of the business require.
 The man who will breed up his stock, selling only the poorest for a few years, will find his business in most excellent condition and hls produce always in good demand at good prices. It is q fact that is beginning tos:darn upon everybody that the beef product in the United States is year by year falling short of the demand. In other words tie demand is greater than the supply, and as times improve, a. they are certain to do, and as employment becomes more plentiful and more money is in circulation among tue people, the disparity between the supply and the demand is sure to widen. It seems to me that il re- quires no great perispicacity to see a bright future for the live stock and especially the cattle business, not only in Arizona but in the whol? country This prosperity is bound to be greater with the stockmen of Arizona ifthey manage 1t on sound business and breeding principles than anywhere else be- cause the climate and conditions here are more favorable for stock raising than anywhere else.
 If have now told the farmers and the cattlemen how they can make money and if those two in terests are prosperous, the trades man, the mechanic, the manufac- turer and the laboring man will follow along in that wake. The railroads will have increased carr ings and will be enabled to reduce their rates.
 Now, I am not one who believes in no law nor am l socialist N ho believes in regulating everything by law, but 1 do believe the time is coming when the people must say to all common carries: Let Us sec your books; let us see if you are not taking more toll than justice and equity allow. And if they are 1 would have the strong arm ofthe law compel them to be fair. But the time to make that examination or enforce that authority in this Territor; has not come for two reasons. First, because We want more railroads, and second because the railroads already in operation are not making any money; at least not making enough to equal fair return for the money invested.
 Greater productions of the range, the farm, and the mine vii! bring greater prosperity o the Territory and all it's people No fear need be entertained that the markets fur
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