The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-24
MONEY IN GOAT RAISING.
an Arizona Goat Farm Which Has
Proved Profitable.
Loulsville Courier-JouTnal)

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You can sell every part Of goat
but his scent said John Collins. for
merry Of JeferSonviIle. but now Of the
world IN general in the course of an
interview last night on the subject Of
his Arizona goat farm There are
thousands of goats on the farm" he
said, hut whether there are 10000,
10000 or 10000 / couldn't tell you for
the life of me.
1 can tell YOU. however. something
about the way in which our goat in
dustry was started. By the death of
grand uncle, my uncle, Harry McCor-
mick, and / inherited the Griebe St.
Anne silver mines. which are TWO days
and a night Of steady burrO travel
south Of tucson. There was silver in
the mines, but by the time we got it
out and got it to Tucson we were pay
Ing for it at about the rate Of 10 to 1.
But it wasn't a case of free silver, by
any means. II was the most expensive
money / ever got hold Of Finding the
venture a losing one, we took lessons
from the 'greasers and bought from
them $50 common goats
There is nothing but sagebrush and
cactus out there for those animals to
feed on. but no man ever saw a dead
goat unless he had come to some vio-
lent end They live and thrive where
nearly every other living thing starves
TO death
we started out with $50 goats, de-
irving our profits from the sale OF the
hides. In 1882 we decided to mix them
with Angora goats. After two years
the cross disappears and you have a
perfect AngOra goat. II is a valuable
thing TO have. The long hair is sold
10 the manufacturers Of plush for fur
niture, sleeping cars and such things.
The hair next to the skin can be made
up into valuable shawls. The meat Of
the kids is delightful when fresh and
is sent in its canned shape TO Cuba,
the Philippines, other parts of the Unit
ed States, to China and TO many other
foreign countries as canned lamb.
So rich is goats milk that one tea
spoonful Of it Is equal to three table
spoonfuls of the purest cream. But
the best part about the milk is that it
is a deadly foe TO tubercula, and con-
sumptives who drink it are often cured
of the disease. We are planning to
condense the milk and sell it for me-
dlcinal as well as family use If there
is any dumb animal with more valu-
able qualities than the goat, then I
don't know It.
No stables have to be provided for
the keeping and six ranchers are suf-
ficient for herding up those we want to
sell. Once in awhile the greasers and
Indians get away with a few. but where
you've got some. scrappy ranchers they
are not likely to repeat the perform
ance often.
AS a rule now we sell the goats on
the hOOt. In order TO do so we have
to drive them into Tucson. And
tough job il is OF course, horses are
not much good then, as it is hard to
get provender and water, but there is a
species of brOneho which the natives
call loco polka which is as hardy as a
goat. The loco polka is the Craziest thing
between Arizona and the next hottest
country. AS long as the notion doesn't
strike EN- they're all right. but If ever
they make up their minds TO stop,
nothing on earth can start EN-. When
ever one goes, the rest go. A STAN
peding loco polka might go through a
town where a score of his kind are
hitched and every blessed one of them
would break loose in some way and go
galloping after him. They run till they
get good and ready to stop. II you
happen to hang on that long you can
turn your loco polka around and the
rest viii follow.
we use the loco pokas for packing
the kid meat to TuscOn, and. barring
this one accomplishment, they are all
right"