Arizona republican., 1906-12-29
GAVE GREEK RANGES
 IN FINE CONDITION
Other News of the Gaming and Gonis of Stoekmen and Operation of the Mines.

l trast so great. so magical as to be- wilder if not craze him. The close. and all around the mountain walls of this
 Edinic realm. wintry storms and freez-
 ing blizzards have ragged, yet in this protected basin. the mildest most gen. ial spring has reigned. The flats are
 carpetted and the mountain slopes to
 their summiJs are robed in verdure,
 and here and there wild flowers look
 out from under boulders or tangled i chapparal to contradict the herder and
 prospector who insist that the time IS
 midwinter. No, no; we may have
 slept too soundly; but sure this is
 springtime." the wild flowers and the
 grass proclaim. Range stock up here
 are in the finest condition possible.
 and the Dakotan magically transported
 hither over night and awakened by
 the contented bleating of sheep and
 goats and lowing of cattle in which
 there are no accents Of pleading. but l instead expressions of satiety. would
 awakening exclaim 'Where in He aven am I?"
 Lately a report in The Republican from some other range speaks or
 range cattle being in perfect condition for slaughter-no alfalfa pasturing at all needed. year ago I alluded to
 the promising condition of the range
 stock up here. and I want to repeat
 that statement for this year. Just imagine my Dakotan looking at the
 yearling and two-year-old Durham
 cattle of Logan Morris and James Gib-
 son up herei Finer specimens of such
 stock were never seen in the stalls of
 county or state fairs. Their coats are
 as sleek as if they had barbers to att
 tend to them. These bully boys all
 part their hair in the middle-and if
 one would tell me that he had seen one of these bully boys wearing a swal-
 low tail coat and plug hat. escorting a
 young heifer in flounces. I would be-
 lieve him. They seem to know that
 they are exquisites. and ] have seen
 them standing about the station as if consciously on exhibition. If these
 bully boys don't call for their bitters in the morning it Is because their "old man" don't give down their registered merit.
 The Hon John Noble. one of Arizo- mas sheep barons. got into the station on Sunday afternoon. and then rode on to Phoenix to see how Son-in-law Galpin is doing. The same day Senor Arisman Duran of Apache county. ana another prosperous sheep man got in with a caravan of burros after sup plies. The first sheep man to come in this season was Sheriff Mouck of Ma vajo county. by his foreman. The herds of these and of the Candelarias. Bazan and others whose names escape us are in Bloody Basin.
 Jas WoOdson. the Squaw Creek cat tie man. came down a few days ago. and he says that few herds have got down to his vicinity-one of them be- longing to C. H. Brown of Navajo county. There are other Herds over on the Verde. all approaching leisurely. so as to get here for -shearing in next month. They say that their sheep are in most satisfactory condition. So far as we can judge now. there will be quite as many sheep sheared ai Mouck's station as a year and two years ago.
 4 letter received by the writer hereof and one of the Copper Top company. from Petit Robinson of Louisville. Ky. says incidentally to another matter. that his company is preparing to re- sume development in the spring early, l that mismanagement and wasteful ex- penditure and other unauthorized acts ! of the superintendent caused the com 1 pany to pause temporarily for renew | ed effort and on a scale much larger | than heretofore. Business is business: i and even corporations with unlimited l capital will stop to plug up leaks | who, operating at so great a distance. | can do immense damage before their | work can be investigated.
 Meantime development Is going on now without any interruption at the l oriental and Grand Travers mines. MT. | Donald, president Of the first. and MT. | son of the president Of N the other. are here to do their own John Lybolt, one of the old time mining men of this re- zion. and as capable a manager as can he. has the Mormon Girl in charge Il now, Mir. McCarver. late superinten- dent of the Mormon Girl. having got another job of the same sort and of much larger responsibility at corres- larger salary. He is now about Wickensburg. The Mormon Girl as developed shows bet ter right along. The Meshachetty mill am informed. Is working nicely and he results of the milling are up to Prospectors everywhere n the region are doing well. The as 'essment work on all promising pros- Dects is being done n,w.
 Charley Frisk is at work now on iray's gulch on the big high grade ore bodies owned by NIT. Mouck and him. elf and so also, hear. is MT. Sicelly It the same place. Major Gates has low, or has on the way there, a force # men to resume development of the Sierra Alta away mp the crock.
 This winter Cave Creek will inun- late Phoenix and the valley with the lsual amount of storm "Ahwah," and thousands and thousands of dollars in l money for supplies for the aforemen- toned mines. as we'll as from the sheep nen who are always full of lucre The : walls Of our goat herds ought also to s e large. Lineville's Angora goat erd, now numbering more than three c