Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-10-29

ing order: The Shorthorn, the Here
ford and the Holstein. If butter or
Icheese is desired, then either of the
breeds / have mentioned are desirable
Ibut Jersey or Guernsey are what is
wanted. By Shorthorns, or Herefords,
OF Holsteins | do not mean calf pro-
duced from thoroughbred sires and
weakling and worthless dams, but
mean thoroughbred animals. Z hey
should not only be thoroughbred, but
they should be high bred and of the
I best beef producing strains. The time
will come in this territory and in this
city when the farmer or the range
man can bring his three-year-old
thoroughbred steer into this market
and receive $75 to $lOO for it on foot.
This cannot he done, however, by
taking young and small and low bred
bulls even it they are thoroughbred
and crossing them with native, no
bred, fool cows. 1t is the law Of ma
ture as well as the law of heredity
that like produces like. To expect
great, nice, square buttocked, solid
meated animals from dwarfed and
scrubby parents is the height of folly.
If were rancher or stockman
and wanted to raise cattle for profit l
would buy as many high bred. large
boned, beefy Shorthorn cows as l
could and as many similarly bred bulls
as I needed and would breed them as
carefully and Systematically as {
would were 1 breeding horses for the
turf. Only by systematic, intelligent
and careful 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
few years, will find his business in
most excellent condition and bis pro-
duce always in good demand at good
prices. It is a fact that is beginning
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 tines
improve, as they are certain to do.
and as employment becomes more
plentiful and more money is in circu-
lation among the people, the disparity
between the supply and the demand
is sure to widen. Tt seems to me that
it requires no great perspicuity to see
a bright future for the live stock and
especially the cattle business, not only
in Arizona but in the whole country.
This prosperity is bound to be greater
with the stockmen of Arizona if they
manage it on sound business and breed
ing 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
cattlemen how they can make money
and if those two interests are pros
porous, the tradesman, the mechanic,
the manufactures and the laboring
man will follow along in that wake.
The railroads will have increased
earnings and will be enabled to reduce
their rates
Now, I am not one VINO believes in
no law nor am I a socialist who be-
lieves in regulating everything by
law, but do believe the time is con:
ing when the people must say to all
common carriers. let us see if you are
not taking more toll than justice and
equity allow; let US see your DO ,ks
And if they are taking more than
jus4ice and equity allow 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, because we want more
railroads, and second, because the rail
roads already in operation are not
making any money: at least not max
ing enough to equal fair return on