Evening star., 1902-03-08
MONEY IN GOAT RAISING.
An Industry in Which There Are Nc
Unsaleable Remnants.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
You can sell every part of goat but his
scent" said John Collins formerly Of JEFF
fersonvile, but now of the world In gen
eral, 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. but whether there are
II 600. 10000 or $4,000 l couldn't tell you
for the life Of me.
Il can tell you, however, something about
the way in which our goat industry was
started. BY the death Of a grand uncle. my
uncle, Harry Mccormick and I 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 1t out
anG got 1t to Tucson we were paying for 1t
at about the rate Of IL to l. But 1t wasn't
a case Of free silver by any means. 1t
was the most expensive money ever got
hold Of. Finding the venture losing one
we took lessons from the greaSers and
bought from them $50 common goats.
There is nothing but sagebrush and cac-
tus out there for those animals to feed on.
but no man ever saw dead goat. unless
he had come to some violent end. They
live and thrive where nearly every other
living thing starves to death.
I'VE started out with $50 goats, deriving
our profits from the sale of the hides. In
CORA goats. After two years the cross dis
appears and you get a perfect Angora
goat. 1t is a valuable thing to have. The
lcng hair is sold to the manufacturers Of
plush for furniture. 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 it's canned shape TO Cuba, the Phil
ippines, other parts OF the United States,
to China and to many other foreign coun-
tries canned lamb
$50 rich is goats milk that one teaspoon
full of it is equal to three tablespOonfuls Of
the purest cream. But the best part about
the milk is that it is a deadly foe to tuber-
cula and consumptives who drink it are
often cured of the disease We are plan
ming to condense the milk and sell 1t for
medicinal well family use. If there
is any other dumb animal with more val
liable qualities than the goat, then l don't
know 1t.
mo stables have to be provided for the
keeping and six rancherS are sufficient for
herding up those we want to sell. Once
in a while the greasers and Indians get
away with few, but where you've got
some scrappy ranchers they are not likely
to repeat the performance often.
"As a rule, now we sell the goats on the
hoof. In order to do so we have to drive
them into Tucson. And a tough job 1t Is.
OF course horses are not much good then.
as 1t Is SO hard to get prOvender and water,
but there is a species Of bronco 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 hot
test country. AS long as the notion doesn't
strike 'em they're all right, but If ever
they make up their minds to stop nothing
on earth can start 'em. Whenever one
goes, the rest go. A stampeding loco polka
might go through town where a score Of
his kind are hltched 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 will
follow.
We use the loco pokas for packing the
kid meat to Tucson. and, barring this one
accomplishment, they are all right"