The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-07-02
MONEY IN eoAT RAISING.
An Industry In Which There Are No
Unstable Remnants.

An Industry In Which There Are No |
Unstable Remnants.
"You can sell every part Of goat
but his scout" said John Collins in the
course OF an interview recently on the
subject of his Arizona goat farm.
There are thousands Of goats on the
fasm," he said, "but whether there are
10000, 10000 or 10000 couldn't tell
you for the life of me.
81 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 Nc
Cormick 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 1t
out and got 1t to Tuccon we were pay
ing for It 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 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 dead
goat unless he had come to some vlo-
lent end. They live and thrive where
nearly every other living thing starves
to death.
"We started out with 150 goats, de-
irving our profits from the sale Of the
hides. In 1892 we decided to mix them
with Angora goats. After two years
the cross disappears and you get per-
feet Angora goat. 1t is valuable
thing to have The long hair is sold to
the manufacturers of plush for furni-
ture, 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
United States, to China and to many
other foreign countries as canned
lamb.
So rich Is goats milk that one tea.
spoonful of 1t 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 Otter
cured of the disease. We are planning
to condense the milk and sell 1t foi
medicinal as well as family use II
there is any other dumb animal will
more valuable qualities than the goat
then | don't know 1t.
"No stables have to be provided fo
the keeping and six ranchers are suf
ficient for herdlng up those we want t
sell. Once In a while the greasers ant
Indians get away with a few, bu
where you've got some scrappy ranch
ers they are not likely to repeat tn
performance often.
"As a rule now, we sell the goats Of
the hoof," continued Mr.. Collins, &C
cording to the Washington Star. al
order to do so we have to drive then
INTO lucSOH' Anu louBu JoD ~ II
OF course, horses are not much goo
then, as 1t Is so hard to get provende
and water, but there is a species o
broncho which the natives call Toe
poka, which is as hardy as a goa
| The loco polka is the craziest thing bt
, tween Arizona and the next hotties
! country. AS long as the notion doesn
r strike 'em they're all right, but If eve
they make up their minds to stop notl
: ing on earth can start 'em, Whenevt
! one goes, the rest go. A stampedin
+ loco polka might go through a tow
8 where score of his kind are hitchet
e and every blessed one of them woul
i break loose In some way and go ga
e Looping after him. They run till the
t get good and ready to stop. II yo
It happen to hang on that long you CO
turn your loco polka around and Il
- rest will follow.
!. 1--WE use the loco pokas for packir
:. the kid meat TO Tucson and, barrir
~ this one accomplishment, they are q
right"