Arizona republican., 1910-11-04
|S OSTRICH SALE Belgian Capitalists Buy Five
 Hundred Birds THE HARIRANFI FLOC K
Deal Just Closed by H. l. Latham Will Bring Great Amount of Foreign Mon ey Into Salt River Valley. Belgo- American Co.

 l purchased from the National ostrich Y company by the syndicate of Belgian | capitalists who last spring bought the | McNeil- Wylie flock of 150 birds and placed them on a portion of the Bartlett Heard ranch. The ostriches obtained from the National company, which are known as the w. G. Hart ranft flock, will be added to the Me Neil Wylie birds, making the second largest flock in the United States.
 This deal is one of the most impor tant ostrich sales ever made in Amer ica and means a tremendous influx of Belgian capital into the Salt River valley Aside from what the birds cost them, the purchasers of the Hart ranft ostriches intend to spend large sum of money in improving their ranch, which they call the Belgo- American farm. They will conduct the farm as the Belgo-A American Os- trich company.
 The consummation of this deal is a direct outcome of H. l. Latham's sum- mer tour of Europe. While in Bel 1 gium he met several capitalists, among them Leon Van Dorp. Another was | the father of Louis Janssens, who came to Phoenix last spring and | bought the McNeil-Wylie birds. Nat urally, Mir. Janssens' friends were much interested in ostrich growing. To the senior Janssens and MT. Van Dorp MT. Latham mentioned the Hart ranft flock The result was that they entered into negotiations for the pur- chase of the birds Louis Janssens L and before MT. Latham left Brussels he was fairly certain that a sale would be effected.
 Last Monday MT. Van Dorp arrived in Phoenix, having come direct from Brussels, with instructions from his associates to conclude the negotia- tions begun during the summer. He sought out MT. Latham and the de- tails were attended to in short order. Everything was finally closed yester- day.
 For the last five or six years the. National Ostrich company, of which MT. Hartranft is the principal mem- Der, has maintained it's flock on Jake Millers ranch, five miles west of the fair grounds, on the Christy road. The | ostriches will now be moved shortly to the BelgO- American farm.
 The BelgO- American company has 270 acres of the Bartlett Heard ranch. !. Of the 270 acres, 195 are in alfalfa | and the remainder in a desert condi- | ton. Ire birds are kept on the | desert. hot being permitted in the | alfalfa fields at all. The alfalfa is | cut and ground in a power cutter | Then it is distributed to the ostrichcs 1 This new method of feeding has | proven very successful, since not so | much alfalfa is wasted when the birds | are allowed to tramp over it at win i It is claimed that more birds can be | fed in this way from an acre of | ground than when they are pasture1 | Another advantage is that they dj ! not tramp in the alfalfa and kill it | when the ground happens to be wet !
 MT. Janssens and his sister have 1 been at the farm since last spring l and will remain permanently, having | built a modern home. In fact Mir. l Janssens is general manager of thel company and is in direct charge of | the ranch. Mir Van Dorp will remain | until next April or May, when he will ! return to Belgium. He is enthusas- | ttC ONtl tlic sDdil hlNtI NdlltN IL is possible that he may come again l to stay.
 MT. Latham naturally feels highly | pleased over the successful outcome | of the deal that he has labored so 1 long to close. The foreign capital | which it brings to this section adds | just that much to the capital invested l in the Salt River valley. The mem berS of the Belgo- American company also have reason to be elated. Their | own investigations convinced them that they could not make safer in vestment, or one more certain of a high interest return than to buy os- triches in Arizona. They have never been interested in South African os- triches. In fact. they knew no more about the bird than the average Eu- roepan business man until MT. Jans- sens bought ostriehes here.
 Janssens, ST, is a manufacturer of tapestry and carpets, and is heavily interested in railroads and other in dustries. Mir. Van Dorp is associated with him in several companies.
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