Arizona republican., 1905-02-07

case is yet capable of permanent cure.
On that assurance we rely for the
present.
This warm spring sun so early
breaking through and dissipating the
clouds that deluged this region. is
causing rapid and enormous growth
of vegetation. The buds on fruit trees
are swelling; the leaves coming out,
and the whole landscape beginning to
green. Cattlemen coming down from
the head of this creek, and from re-
gions farther north, say that the pros
pect for feed on the ranges was never
better than now. Walter Harrington,
who with Billy Ferris, has cattle rang
ing around the old Alkire ranch on
Camp Creek, has no complaints to
make.
A gramophone loaded with the
sounds coming from a sheep bivoac
awakening in early morning, would be
an interesting thing. One sees at 4:SO
in the morning the boss herder and
cook stirring the fire into leaping
flames and then Sheppys staccato
barking breaks in on the silence; for
the sheep are raising up one by one,
and the goats on the outside preparing
to lead the herd out 100 early. Often
there is a profane infection in Sheppy's
bark Then follow calls in musical
Spanish, and whistliag and verbal ex-
pletives as Ineligible in one language
as in any other. At last in the grow
ing dawn, one hears the cry "O-oo-l-o-
h-hi" when Sheppy stops barking, and
a goat breaks from the huddle followed
by the sheep in many diverging lines.
The laden burros are seen always in
the midst of the herd, browsing with
he &c a
the boss herder is mounted on a mule,
riding here and there and continually
calling to the herders far and near.
While sheep herding may not involve
such strenuous work as that of the
cowboys rodeo, it is about as restless.
But camp being made early in the
evening one will see Jose at the camp
fire writing to his Querida or to par
ientes back in New Mexico or Chihua-
hua or Sonora, if not to the Basque
provinces of Spain. There is now in
this postoffice a big lot Of letters ad-
dressed ''SenOr Don" to about dozen
different Spanish names, but with an
infinite variety of given names COM
posed of adjective terms converted in
to proper names or nouns. All of these
will be called for before the herds start
north again in April.
Nearly all of these Mexican herders
are of the quiet, sober class, who if
they drink at ALL mellow up only to the
sensational stage. Sheep men dare not
take chances on malos hombres who
might Iinger about a station like this
to neglect their camps or herds.
HOuck's bar keepers keep tab on herd
ers of that sort and shut off on them.
At least 800 inches of water now
runs in the creek nearly to Winnefred
valley, and viii run until April. The
drone of sheep herds leaving the creek
bed at twilight, is soon succeeded by
the roaring of bully boy, who, having
attained to his majority of two years
old, leads in his cavaIcade of cows and
calves and admiring steers. Whenever
you hear bully boy roaring his chal-
leng TO all of his sort, and cows and
steers uttering their brutal believing
of fresh blood, then we know that
hunger and thirst harrass them no
more. The cattle see coming into wa
ter are yet in fine condition
There has been no mine work worth
the mention since New Years. The
mountain roads of the Mormon Girl
ripped into rags by the recent storms,
are vet in process of repair; hence
the mill is shut down. 1t is lament
able that nothing is doing on the Ben
Hur; that John and Neri osborn doI {
get their rich COWS backed into a cor
ner with horns and tails tied so that
ceasing to toss and sling at imaginary
flies of trouble, they might milk EN- for
the Lords sake and get back to the Ben
Hur. That enormously rich ore body IS
vet sassing passrsby, thus endeavoring
to attract due attention. Did ever
tell you how John came to notice it?
Ono dav inst four wears ago, as John
was climbing over the big red dixie
he heard this coming from it, Como
estamos. YOU black republican"
you call me a republican" exclalm-
ed John. eff there's a democrat on
earth I'm one. Take that" and John
hit that dixie with the pole of his pick
and. 10. the chips glowed with copper
suIphurets Ever since some Phoe-
nicians Incorporated it, that dixie like
a smiling pleading baby, has reached
dimpled arms tc them begging to be
taken up h. w. M COfSN1Ch-