The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02
MONEY IN GOAT RAISING.
An Industry In which There Are No In
saleablc Remnants.
From the Lomsrlie Courier-Jo.unni.

From the LOuisrUo
You can sell every part Of a goat but his
scent. " said John Collins. formerly OF Jeffer-
%sonvillc. but now Of the world in general, in
the course of an interview last night on the
subject 81 his Arizona goat farm. There are
thousand, Of goats on the farm he said. but
whether there are 10000. 10000 or 30, 900 I
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-unole, my
uncle. Harry Mccormick and | inherited the
Griebe ~. Anne silver mines. which are two
days and a night of steady burro travel south
of Tucson. There was silver in the mines.
but h. the time we got IL out and got It 70
Tucson we were paying for IL at about the
rate Of 10 to !. But IL wasn't a ca Sc OF free
silver by any means. was the most expen-
awe money | ever got hold OF. Finding the
venture n losing ono, We took lessons from
the 'rrcasers' and bought from them l50 com.
mon goats.
There is nothing but sage brush and cactus
out there for those animals TO feed on, but
no man ever saw a, dead goat, unless he had
Comc to some violent end. They live and
thrive where nearly every other living thing
stirves to death.
we started out with $50 goats, deriving
our profits from the sale Of the hides. In
lSg2, We decided to mix them with the Angora
goats. After two years, the Gloss disap-
i L. u valuable thing TO have. The long
hair. Is sold to. the manufacturers of plush
loI lNTllluI'' Nl''llNg cars ana such Things.
The halr next TO the SKIN can be made up
into valuable ShHwls. The meat OF the kids
i, delightful when fresh and il sent In tie
canned shape to cuba, the Philippines, other
parts OF tho United States. to CHINA and to
many other foreign countries Us canned
lamb.
$50 rich Is goat's milk that one teaspoonful
OF II Is equal 10 three tahleSpoOnfuls OF the
purest cream But the best part about the
milk Is that II l. "A deadly foe to tubercula.
and oousuWptivcs who drink IL are often
cured Of The disease. We are planning to
cOud"n-c Oh" mIk and sell IL for medicinal
"a well a- family Use. II there is any other
dumb an ruul with more valuable QUALIFIED
No stables have TO b" provided for the
keeping and sIN rauChcrs are sufficient for
hcruiug up those We want to sell Once in a
while the Hr'ascrS and Indians get away
ranChers they are not likely TO repeat the
performance OFTEN
A. a rulo now We sell the goats on the
hoot In order TO do 80 We have TO drive
them into Tucson Aud a tough job IL Is.
or Courso, horses are not much good then as 10
so hard TO g't proNohurr and water. but there
j. q Species Of bronco which the natives call
loco polka which L. rs hardy as a goat. The
loco polka T. til" C%raliost thing between Ari-
zona and the next hottest country As long
~ the notion doesn't strike 'em they're all
right, but u ever they make up thor minds
to stop nothing on "nrth can start 'em.
Whenever one goes, "a" rest go A stam-
peding loco Ioka might 50 through q town
where a score OF his Kind are hitched
and every blessed one Of them would break
loose IN some way and 20 gailOpingaiteT him.
They run til they get good and ready TO stop.
II you happen to hang on that long you can
turn your loco polka round and the rest will
follow.
" use the loco pokas for packing the
kid meat TO Tucson and. barring this one
accomplishment they are all right