Arizona republican., 1898-05-26
HOLBROOK NEWS.
The First Shipment of the Season Over
 the Santa Fe Pacific

Holbrook, May 22-(SpeciaI correspon- dence of The Republican. .)-The first stock shipment for the season of 1898 was made from Holbrook by the Esperanza Cattle company of which Will c. Barnes is the general manager. The company loaded twenty-one cars of mixed cattle here on Monday last destined for Spring CT, New Mexico.
 The Santa Fe Pacific people have built splendid new yards at this point for which the cowmen feel duly grateful
 During the Esperanza shipment Paul Brizard, who spent last winter in Phoe- nix. and is now here with Mir. Barnes, had his horse gored by a fighting bull, but MT. Brizard fortunately was not in- jured
 The day following another Esneranza puncher named Cameron was hooked in the leg by COW and thrown off his horse The injured man was brought in to town and the Winslow doctor tele- graphed for. who came and dressed a rather ugly wound which will keep him oil horse for a month or two.
 MT. Ellison, the big cattieman from -Tonto Basin, is here with a thousand head of young steers which are sold to a Las Vegas man. Mr Ellison has alto gether about 5000 head contracted for summer delivery. He reports feed very good but water scarce on the trail from the basin, making it a very hard drive for the cattle.
 
 the price of cattle, several big trades hay ing fallen through owing to the refusal of the banks to advance any money 10 the buyers.
 It seems hard that after all these years Of waiting when good prices were at hand to gladden. the stockmaa.s heart. to have this war scare come along and knock it all sky-high. but we are hoping for an early change in affairs Just now, however, it is simply an inn DOcSihilitV n sell hincr of COW at any price, and wool isn't much better, there being no wool market and probably four carloads being piled up on the railroad platform here waiting for buyers.
 Burton lIossman, the manager of the Aztec Cattle company, is in and out of town every few days. His company got caught out in the general drop in cattle sales and missed selling their steers by 8 few days. MT MosSman has two large outfits at work on their range rounding up and branding the calves and reports an immense calf crop His company eX- poets to brand over 10000 calves for the year.
 MT. w. E. Travis, who spent part of last winter in Phoenix, is in town today visiting MT. Mossman. He has been awarded the contract to supply the beef for the San Carlos Apache agency and is here to arrange for the delivery of the first cattle early in July.
 MT. Travis makes his headquarters in Salt Lake, he having several large In- dian contracts in the northwest states. The contractors for building the new court house, a Flagstaff firm, have be- gun the manufacture of the brick near town. The building will be of brick. | trimmed with red sand stone. The board of supervisors propose to build a court house that will be credit to the county. fast flying freight train passed through here a few days ago carrying five refrigerator cars labelled "Libbey S meat for Dewey's fleet" It was billed for Frisco and had been rushed at pas senger train time so far on it's journey
 The Santa Fe Pacific is doing tre- mendous business now and every engine and car they own is being worked to its utmost limit.
 The long-planned system of dams and ditches at Winslow has at last begun tC take shape. One large masonry dam costing about S15.OOO has already been fin ished and now contracts have been let for the erection of the large dam at Hay lake, where the company expects to inn pound an immense body of rain water to be used in irrigating an immense body of fine land below the town. Winslow grows steadily and new resi- dences are being built on every hand and general air of prosperity pervades the place.