Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-10-27
THE oovrRsoR oS srouR nAIslso.
An Able and Very Practical Address De- nveFed by Him on the Subject st
 Phenix

I fhontNs
 During the recent meeting of tht
 live stock raisers of the territory in
 Phenix Governor McCord delivered
 very able address on the subject ol
 improving the stock from which WI
 quote the following: Cannot some
 means be devised to double the
 stockman's crop, or income, or pro-
 fits. And if such thing IS possible
 IS 1t not worth our while to give tO
 it our most serious and thoughtful
 considerationi
 In multitude of counsel there is
 wisdom. In union there Is strength.
 It therefore follows that for the
 men interested in business whose
 success depends upon wise counsel
 and unity of action, success or fail
 ure depends upon strict adheFenct
 to the maxims l have mentioned.
 In the past neither wise counsel nor
 unity of action has characteIized
 the management of the live stock
 interests in this territory. Here
 nature has done more for cattle and
 other stock interests than 1t has anywhere else under the sun. But there is much left for man to do to
 make it as successful as it can and
 should be made. Of what avail is 1t
 to raise a steer at a trifling expense if when raised he is almost worth
 less or comparatively worthless. With proper attention to breeds and
 breeding three year old steer can
 at present be made to briug $50 to
 S60 as well as S25 to $30. There are
 but two or at most three breeds Of
 cattle that should find a place on
 ranch or range if beef is the desid-
 eratum, and l value them in the fol-
 lowing order: The Shorthorn, the
 Hereford and the Holstein. If but ter or cheese is what is desired, then
 either of the breeds 1 have men
 tioned are desirable, but Jersey or Guernsey are what is wanted. By Shorthorns, or Herefords or Hol- steins, l do not mean a calf pro- duced from thoroughbred sires and and weakIing and worthless dams, but l mean thoroughbred animals. They should not be only thorough bred, but they should be high bred and of the best beef producing strains. The time will come in this territory and in this city when the farmer and the rangeman can brlne his three-year-old thoroughbred steer into this market and receive S75 to SI00 for it on foot.
 This cannot be done, however, bH taking young and small and low bred bulls even if they are thorough bred ard registered and crossing them with native, no breed fool ] COWS. It is the law of nature, As we'll as the law of heredi;y that ike 1 produces like. To expect great. l nice, square buttocked, big breasted | deep shouidered, solid meated ani- mals from dwaIfed and scrubby a. rents is the height of folly. Ii Il were a rancher or stockman at d | wanted to raise cattle for profit would buy as many high bred. large boned, beefy ShorthoIn cows as l | could, and as many similarly bred | bulls as needed and would breed them as carefully and as systemali cally as 1 would were I breeding horses for the turf. Only by sys- tematic, intelligent and careful breeding whether on range or farm ;.an the cattle interests of this terri tory be brought to that state of ad- vancement that the best interests of the business require.
 The man who will breed up his stock, selling only the poorest for q few years, will find his business in a most excellent condition and his produce in good demand at good prices. It Is q fast that is begin ming to dawn upon every body tha, the beef product in the United States is year by year falling short of the demand. In other words the demand is greater than the supply, and as times improve, as they are certain to do, aud as employment becomes lLore plentiful and more money is in circulation among the people, the disparity between the supply and the demand is sure to widen. It seems to mo that it re- 4uires no great perspicacitY 10 see a bright future for the live stock aud especially the cattle business, not cnly in Arizona, but in the whole This prosperity is bound to be greater with the stockmen of Arizona if they manage it on. sound business and breeding principles han anywhere else because the eli nate and conditions here are more favorable for stock raising than any where else.
 If 1 have now told the farmers and he cattlemen how they can make money and if those two interests are prosperous, the tradesman, the me- :hanic, the manufacturer and the aboring man will follow along in hat wake. The railroads will have increased earnings and will be en- .bled to reduce their rates.
 Now, am not one who believes in 10 law nor am 1 a socialist who be- ieves in regulating everything by aw, but l do believe the time is { 'oming when the people must say to { III common carriers. Let us see I our books; let us see if you are not aking more toll than justice and , quity allow. And if they are 1 would have the strong arm of the aw compel them to be fair. Bat he time to make that examination 1T enforce that authority in tbis ter itory has not come for two reasons. first, because we want more rail- I pads, and, second, because the rail. T oads already in operation are not a making any money; at least not making enough to equal a fair re- urn for the money invested. r Greater production of the range, U he farm and the mine will bring f reater prosperity to the territory n nd all it's people. No fear need be that the markets for the roducts can be overstocked. The o utlOOk for every industry in Ari -