Lower coast gazette., 1910-07-16

the Salt River valley. The buyers
that were in the field were representa-.
lives of Dewey, Gold & Co., Of BoS.
ton: Brown & Adams. OF Boston, and
Salter BROTHERS, representing various
houses in Boston. Workers were
scarce, ard wages were high. Clip.
pors that formerly received from SD
to $40 per month now receive from
S3j to $500 per month, and most of
these labOrers are MeXicanS.
Goat raising in Arizona has proved
profitable, and this years prices, paid
by the Boston markets, We're the high
est ever recorded. For kid mohair, r
Edmundson of Yarnoll received 80
cents per pound, and this was paid Tor
the grade known as No. .. This sale
was made through the National Nc
hair Growers association, organized
recently in opposition 10 the c
combine. The new association has an
agency and warehouse in Boston, and
lost no time in getting into the Arl-
IONA field.
The shipment Noted EdmundSon As
cents a pound after paying transport
tati0n charges and association eX-
penses. Not only is the goat proving
profitable from the sale Of the hair,
but recently Arizona goat mutton sold
in the Kansas City market for $50
the hundred. The territory has many
mesas and mountain slopes, which
afford a natural habitat for the An
cora goat, and the outlook is that
this branch of the stock raising in Art-
zona will continue TO grow in impOr-
lance.
Owing to the warm climate In this
territory, lambs come into the mar
ket at a very early season, which gives
the flOcks additional advantage over
other parts OF the country. One ship
ment of lambs was made from the
Salt River farms by J. \. Pitts of Ash
Fork, as early as March II. This con-
signment consisted OF four double car
loads of spring lambs. which were sent
to Kansas City. This was the first
attempt ever made in Arizona to ship
the lambs so that they might arrive IN
Kansas City before Easter. While this
shipment was made in the nature OF
an experiment 1t proved profitable,
and next year it is probable that .Arf-
zOna lambs will find ready early sale
in Kansas City stock yards. The
lambs sold were raised on Pitts farm
and fed on hay raised on his farm, in
stead of leaving the lambkins OF the
ranges.
The shepherds in Arizona have to
contend with the wild animals to an
extent greater than is necessary in
any other part of the country. For
protection against coyotes, dogs which
are often half-hreeds between the col
lie and the coyote are used with great
success. The forest department and
the local officers distribute poison to
kill off the coyotes and this method
has proved effeCtual In many cases.
AS an instance of the number of
wild animals that have to be guarded
against in Arizona 1t Is pointed out
that at a recent hide day" in Tomb
stone, the capital Of Cochise county,
which is the most densely populated
county In the territory, bountieS were
paid In one day on 500 pelts of ami
mails of prey. About $4,000 is paid out
annually by Cochise county for boun-
ties on the pelts of coyotes, bob cats,
wolves, lobos, mountain hons, bears
and skunks. 1t may also be cited
that one night recently a lynx got into
a corral owned by Charles Sands in
the vicinity Of Douglas, In CochiSe
county, and killed 81 goats. The same
man reports that altogether 200 goats
and kids we're killed by lynx and bob
| cats this season.
ALOYSIUS COLL.