Arizona republican., 1897-10-20

with native, no bred fool COWS. It IS the law of nature as we'll as the law of heredity that like produces like. To expect great, nice, square buttocked, big breasted, deep shoul- dered, solid meated animals from dwarfed and scrubbey parents is the height of folly If I were rancher or a stockman and wanted to raise cat tie for profit 1 would buy as many high bred, large boned, beefy Short horn COWS as I could and as many similarly bred bulls as needed and would breed them as carefully and systematically as I would were I breeding horses for the turf. Only by\ systematic, intelligent, and care ful breeding whether on range or farm can the cattle interests of this territory 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 his produce always in good demand at good prices It is a fact that is be- ginning to dawn upon everybody that the beef product in the United States Is year by year falling short of the de- mand In other words the demand is greater than the supply, and as times improve, as they are certain to do, and as employment becomes more plentiful and more money is in circulation among the people, the dis parity between the supply and the demand is sure to widen. It seems to me that it requires no great per ispicaeity to see bright future for the live stock and especially the cat- tie business. not only in Arizona but in the whole country. This prosper ity is bound to be greater with the stockmen of Arizona if they manage 1t on sound business and breeding principles than anywhere else because the climate and conditions here are more favorable for stock raising than anywhere else.
 If I have now told the farmers and the cattlemen how they can make money and if those two interests are prosperous, the tradesman, the me- chanic, the manufacturer and the la boring man will follow along in that wake. The railroads will have in creased earnings and will be enabled to reduce their rates.
 Now, I am not one who believes ill no law nor am I socialist who be- lieves in regulating everything by law, but do believe the time is com ing when the people must say to all common carriers: Let us see your books; let us see if you are not taking more toll than justice and equity al low. And if they are I would have the strong arm of the law compel them to be fair. But the time to make that examination or enforce that authority in this territory has not come for two reasons. First, be- cause we want more railroads, and second because the railroads already in operation are not making any money; at least not making enough to equal a fair return for the money invested.
 Greater productions of the range, the farm, and the mine will bring greater prosperity to the territory and all its people. No fear need be entertained that the markets for these products can be oyerstccked. The outlook for every industry in Arizona l is most excellent. We have here a 1 product found in no ether cline or land, in inexhaustib,e quantities, the
 value of which in a money sense it
 is impossible to compute and that product is nothing more or less than our climate. Climate has done more to enrich California than any indus try it has and it will do mere for Ari-
 Zona than it has for California be-
 cause our climate is better. Arizona
 and all her interests are bound to
 prosper and no power on earth can
 prevent it, and no interest is more
 certain to be prosperous than the cattle interest. All the live stock in
 terest requires to make it prosperou:
 is careful and intelligent breeding
 and ordinary business care and good
 judgment applied to it.