Arizona republican., 1898-04-29

Fred Green took charge of the Pc oria station on Christmas day. 1897 being transferred from Wickenburg Mir. Hart moving his family to the an cient town from Peoria as a result of changing agencies The outlook is good for MT. Green filling extra hours during ms sojourn with his family at this point, the Santa Fe company having erected stock yards close by and tributary to the office. The pens are designed for the large influx of sheep that come from the north in the winter for change of climate and shearing. Livestock Agent Price Be han of the Santa Fe is satisfied with the arrangement of the pens. Peoria will make fresh start under the new conditions. Last week sheep to the number of about 12000 were in the pens for treatment in view of some slight affection and were subsequently driven to Flagstaff.
 The big barn at Peoria bears thes=
 words in bold letters, "The Green
 hut Ranch, Peoria, 1S9O." To the east of the barn is comfortable | homestead occupied until recently by
 MT. and Mrs. c. D. Clarke, who have
 moved to Phoenix Mrs. Clarke's
 mother, Mrs. J. c. Rankin, has taken charge, and MT. J. O. Masters, late of
 Missouri, has been appointed by MT.
 Clarke as foreman. The acreage of l the Greenhut ranch is 400, much Of it in alfalfa, and there is an orchard
 of sixty-five acres. MT. Clarke sold
 the alfalfa in the field at g per ton.
 MT. J. c. Rankin is in the Santa
 Maria mining district where he is in
 terested in the Bull mine, a producer
 of note. This is thirty-five miles
 west Of Congress to which point bull 1 lion is sent to go out on the s. F. P. & P. Toohey is building short wag-
 on road between the Bull and the i Standard mine. These are gold propo- 1 sitions. At the Bull mine there is | a cyanide plant, where roasting is i rot required. Water is plenty. The Rankins have lived in Phoenix num- Der of years and like the place. Mrs
 Rankin, who enjoys a. stay at the mine, was eminently correct in say ing that the wind mill at Peoria on the Greenhut ranch worked perfectly and
 that the water was the best in the 1 valley
 MT. F. A. Woolsey has 24O acres
 mile and a half north of Peoria and has been shipping hay to California at the rate of $7 per ton He will move about eighty tons and in few
 months renew shipping. MT Wool sey pays taxes on Phoenix real estate and reads The Republican every morn ing at the breakfast table.
 R. A. Tuckey, the postmaster and storekeeper, is shipping hay. Last Friday he had a dozen men baling be- low Peoria.
 Cooper & Goss have a three year lease dating October 1 last of Mont Baugh's 160 acres southeast of Peoria, Baugh having caught the Alaska fe- yer, leaving his wife in California to recruit. A pretty home. surrounded by palms, cottonwoods, umbrella and pepper trees, fronts the road Seventy acres of the ranch are in al falfa. The leesses call the place the hog ranch, as swine dwell numer- ously thereon. Four hundred head were sold last week to James Ham mels near Glendale at 31A cents per pound. Forty-two acres of volunteer feed was devoted to forage for the hogs. The firm has about 150 head nCw. They will plant fifteen acres in sorghum on the desert adjoining, this for the rooters. Cooper & Goss farmed on section over year up to August last.
 F. J. Halderman, below Peoria, is preparing to invade the market with poultry, turkeys and eggs.
 Henry Lutgerding, further south, on the Grand canal, is bringing butter to Phoenix.
 Will and Frank Kay are two miles south of Glendale on a section on which is alfalfa, hogs, cattle and about thirty horses. The boys have lived about eleven years on the place and have been quite successful, espec- ially in handling cattle. They have a cosy home, the architectural design being their own plan. It is a brick dwelling and is well built. The boys, likewise a brother who lives with the elder Rays are from Payson, Illinois. Charley Cole is foreman of the ranch and George Fletcher, for mer Mississippi river cook, looks to the culinary department.
 MT. Longe is on the road below Glendale and alfalfa is the prevailing article of diet for the animals raised by MT. Longe. The disposition to get early and reliable war news led MT. Longe to send an order to The Re publican office for the all-year-round, everyday edition, just as hundreds of others have done. Other refer ences will be made by the alfalfa editor at 8 future date, leading up to 1 orange culture and lines on other top ics that are offered in a Journey over | the valley when it presents itself in l garb that pleases the lover of the beautiful. PITTOCK.