The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-31
Arizona a Grand Sheep Country

Arizona a Grand Sheep Country.
 James A. May in American Sheep Breeder says: It is so seldom that l ever see an article of encouragement written from this isolated section of country in reference to the many ad- vantages as we'll as some disadvantages for handling sheep that have decided to inform you and your many thousand readers that we have here in Arizons one of the grandest sheep countries on this continent.
 My candid opinion is after twelve years experience that Arizona could be made to be tue queen f all the ter ritories and western states for growing wool and mutton. Geographically no other territory or state west of the Mis- EIsslppI TIvei .5 .lJtt ueslisOiy 4OCateu- None can surpass her in varieties Of nutritious grasses and EeEl19e "tLH their fragrant flowers, choice enough to eratify the most fastidious taste of the finest stock imported from Europe. Here in northern Arizona are high mountain ranges clad with large forests and heavily tlmbered with pine and spruce, high plateaus which from beau uful parks covered with a carpet of emerald green, bedecked with fragrant flowers where sheep will graze and fat ten four to six weeks without ever being herded to water, although it is usnally plentiful and as clean and pure as snow. These mountain ranges furnish pas ture for five months-June, July, Aug ust. September and October-that the
 world can't beat. Further south from
 fifty to one hundred miles We cross the | foothills and undulating plaIns travers- ed by streams Of clear, pure, cold water
 and interspersed with groves of cedar
 and Juniper that afford ample protec-
 ton from storm during November,
 December and January. February We
 can drift fifty to seventy-five miles
 further south on to what is commonly
 called the desert, and lamb the ewes in
 March on green feed generally far SUD-
 erior to alfalfa. On this valuable sec
 tion of country known as the desert
 (which it is ot)the feed usually drys up
 about the 1st of May, but still herds of
 cattle and horses thrive remarkably
 we'll all the summer.
 The description about represents a section of country two hundred and fifty or three hundred miles on the northeast and west, on the south three to four hundred miles north and soutt } three hundred miles. There is not square acres Of this large area of terri 3 tory but can be benedcially utilized fo r sheep either at one season of the yea 3 Tor the other. The sheep industry O !. ! this terri tory has had a general set lac' . for various reasons. First. expense O , placing your wool and mutton of th' market is enormous. Second, labor Il scarce and wages extremely high
 Third, the free wool market loosen all the ties that bound the sheepman tC unity. Fourth, we all were compelled to pay usury rates of interest Wh-ct
 knocked the bottom out of once pro gressive industry, and the result was the sheep went to the shambles, NC
 use to try to disguise the actual facts we are all bankrupt. But, oh! Hush
 hush! Mir. Editor, what is the use tc , grieve over the evil effects of such deplorable condition of affairs, We haC just as we'll exclalm ID joyful tones O gladness and say far out Tn Arizona the land of health. wealth and sun' | slime. where cedarfringed meses ar' : covered with clover and flowers tha : will yet fatten millions of protected . sheep regardless of old Grover. An' t far up on sloping mountain sides, Wher' !, pea vines and wild oats grow in pro d Prevention is better than cure n Keep your blood pure, your appetite }, good and your digestion perfect b! taking Hoods Sarsaparilla.
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