Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-12
50OO BURROS
 ID BE KILLED
CarcaSSeS to Be Used in Soap, Which Will Be Sweet
 Scented
PROTESTS ARE NUMEROUS

PROTESTS ARE NUMEROUS Five thousand burros. according 10 a story published in a Douglas newspaper, now roaming wild in | the valley of the Sonoita river, south of the international line, wilt soon be slaughtered and the re- mains shipped to Los Angeles to be made up into fertilizer and soap
 Many have regarded the story as a hoax, but according to au- theEtic adviees from Douglas the | roundup of the burros has already been started and the contractors are rounding them up for no otber pur- pose but to kill them and send them t0 a Los Angeles inapufactarisg con- cern. which will use the hides and grease for sweet-scented soap maR- ufacture. and the bones for making fertilizer
 A Protest Voiced.
 The virtues of the burro are aP- preciated in Bisbee perhaps more than any other city in the south west. and in some parts Of the city. owing to the steep hills. they form the only possible method Of transportation. Consequently when it became known that the wholesale harbarism was contemplated, eonsid- erable feeling was expressed against the scheme. Numerous complaints reached the Review with requests that this paper do everything pos sible to prevent the perpetration of this act of cruelty.
 General Manager William K Hor- ton Of the s. F. c. A, of New York was given facts of the case The matter is now under consid- eration by the society -and it is expected that a campaign of pub licity will be launched against the scheme.
 Animals in Mexico.
 The animals are ia Mexico, so it would be out of the jurisdiction of American law and so far as known the manufacturing concern could not be prevented from bring ing the dead burros into this coun- try. The only way to prevent the
 slaughter Of the innOcents,' it seems, it to throw the wRite calcium Of publicity on the scheme or to boycott the soap and fertilizer which is to be made from the car cases Of the harmless and useful little animals
 In this country all-or nearly all-useful animals are protected from commercial greed by string ent laws. It is through the earnest efforts of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 10 Ani- msls, that these laws have been passed in nearly every state and even game birds and animals may be killed for food purposes cnly at certain times of the year
 The society has been Sighting against the sO-called sport of bull lighting in Mexico and has enlisted in the fight no lees well known person than the grandson Of Ben ito Juarez, the great Mexican pa- triot The new regime has looked with favor upon the elimination of some of the brutality of bull fighting and if the ,canpaign of pub licity against the slaughter of bur ros is not successful, the matter will be taken up with Francisco I. Ma dero, the real chief of the repub- lie. It is not believed that he would countenance such an act of cruelty as is contemplated by the Douglas contractors.
 Story of the Scheme.
 The following from the Douglas International, at Douglas. gives the story of the proposed burro siaugh- ter:
 For the purpose Of beginning the work of rouniiRg up five thou sand burres which he recently pur- chased in the Sonoita country, S. miles south of Gila Bend, NJ. 4 GallarGo, of Pirtleville, will leave today. The burros are in Mexico and it is said the cosRtry along the SoHoita river just south cs the international line is literally alive with the little donkeys. They are wild and they are handled muc1 like range cattle are handled. The five thousand burros purchased by Mir. Gallardo were obtained from | JaGuis & Lopez, who's make a busi- ness of raising burros. or round ! ing up the wild ones which are so plentiful in that country. The price I paid for the burros was 75 cents each.
 These burros are to be killed and | shipped to Los Angeles. where the | grease obtained from them will go i into soap factories there, while the
 bones and hides will be used as fer | tilizers.
 When the burTos are rounded up
 they will be taken in punches to Gila Bend on the Southern Pacific railroad. where they will be killed
 and stripped of their flesh. and in
 this shape will be shipped Co Los ] Angeles.
 l MT Mosher, of this city. is in- terested with Gallardo in this en- | terprise, though the work of hand ling and marketing the burros will devolve sn the latter, and he estt Il mates that it will require four oi i've months to finally market the ! turros.
 ! MT. Gallardo has also secured
 some valuable land on the Sonoata | river and controls some valuable | springs in the vicinity, where he ex- | rarte in the fsrfsfra n do aOrna farm