Arizona republican., 1902-02-05

become an immense alfalfa pasture where the thousands of head of range cattle of Bayless & Berkalew will be | fattened for the Tucson and Benson markets.
 Riley Bennett. the foreman of this new empire. said that the cattle of the ranchers along the strip had also been acquired by Bayless & Berkalew. He says that the number of head which they have at present is not known. as | they had not been gathered for sixteen years This firm also owns a large sheep ranch at the Oracle.
 The cattle have to come to the San ! Pedro for water. and the company is thus saved the bother and expense of gathering it's stock The river being inside the fenced lands of the valley. gates are provided for the cattle to enter and as they come down from day to day they are herded and held inside the fences.
 Grant Poole is at present in charge of the old Dr. Poole ranch. fifteen miles above Reddington. He owns. together with his brother, several hundred head of cattle. At the home ranch he Iaises grain and hay and has large number of hogs and chickens. Dr. Poole. who | is well known all along the San Pedro valley, is at present in Los Angeles.
 
 doctor is now past seventy years of age, and for the past six months has | been in poor health.
 A number of prospectors come into the Poole ranch from the east slope of the Rincon mountains. In what is known as Happy valley Montana parties are working some copper claims. They have a number of men al work. and are confident that they will ] SOnn are great many copper prospects upon the east slope of the Rincons some of which are well worth visiting | But little work has been dona. although i the surface indications are sufficient to warrant development. Tut a couple of miles from Reddington there is nice looking claim with three-foot vein. It ! is owned by German whom the cow ! boys call Dutch Jacob. His real name is Jacob Deitz. X few days ago he made shipment of ore to Denver He is poor. and is working his claim | in a small way. hoping to be able to make large producer. It is just such prospects as this one that a railroad will benefit. At present the overland transportation makes it costly to de- velop mine. and particularly for a poor man. All along the east slope of the Rincons there are undeveloped clallrS, waiting for cheaper tranSpor- tation to make mines of them. There is no question in my mind but that great many profitable mines of gold. silver and copper will be developed within a few years after the new rail- road touches the east slope of the Rincon mountains
 J. w. Donald and ". Miltenberger have copper prospect three miles from the San Pedro road in the foot hills which they are developing. A tunnel is being driven to strike a vein of copper ore which is known to exist These gentlemen are both experienced miners. They feel that they have a mine. and will stay with it-a quality which is very essential in mining l Here at Reddington you hear scarce | ly anything but cow talk, as this is the home of cattlemen and cowboys But off to the southwest are the snow white Rincons, and to the northwest are the Catalinas. also bearing their. winter burden of snow. To the east are the Galluro range, made famous by the gold strike in Rattlesnake canyon. And between these ranges are foothills which give way to mesas of rich graz ing lands on either side. with the mar row valley crowded in as the main art cry of mountain watershed.
 Fifteen miles below here at what the cowboys call the california" ranch. owned by Mcclellan brothers. there is wagon road leading off to the Apache Chief mine and Condon camp in the Catalinas. This ranch is also the start ing point for persons going to visit the new strike in the Galluros, but there is no wagon road-nothing but a trail