Bisbee daily review., 1913-07-02
4 LINE ON TIE STOCK
 INTERESTS OF STATE

PHOENIX, July IA glance at the letters of the alphabet, the first ten
 numerals, a circle, a straight line. a square, would not give the impression
 that there are more than fifteen thou.
 sand ordinations of them applicable
 as live stock brands. with still plenty of opportunity for combinations that
 do not conflict with the others, yet
 this is true as visit to the ofFice of the secretary of the Arizona live stock
 sanitary board will easily prove Al ready, strange as it may seem, there are more than fifteen thousand Of these marks designating the owner ship of animals on record in the office acove referred to, and in many cases thEce or more brands are recorded in a single ownership.
 This is not all of it. There are more { brands being revoked every day. Even though there is objection to the pres cnt form of tariff there Eeems to be Inc doubt that there is still money in ! the cattle business in Arizona, as more men are embarking in the bus ! mess every month Already it is one 1 of the chief industries in the state i with millions invested in it, and mil, Hons of dollars being made from it. ! Not that any ore man is making a million a year at it, but there are many men who find their investment ! iu the cattle business is and has been Ia paying one, and with proper care, I the demand for fresh meat ever in | creasing, there are many chances to |yet make money in the business
 i Buu this story is not about the cat : tie business in that sense. It is to 1 give some idea of the amount of work | that has to be done by the three | young ladies wbo comprise the sec rctarial force of the live stock sani- l tary board and whose duties it is to keep track from the reports from the ! field made by inspectors, of the num- [ Der of cattle in the state, the number , Jeing shipped out. the methods that ! are used to benefit the business the sanitary measures that are employed ! to keep the cattle from being attacked l by disease, and also the number of i ! rands. the dis stricts in which they are ranging, the positions on the bodies of the animals that the, brands arc placed, who they belong to and the i Eumber of cattle in each brand.
 The brands are divided still fur i ther into American brands, Mexican brands and Indian brands, each of | which mean different things to the 1 different races thai use them. The
 trand books are therefore, as 1t can
 be easily understood, a matter Of i great importance to the stock indus ! try of the state. the keeping of them 4 correctly equally matter Of great fe ffnv4 O.
 1 about the live stock brands thst Is of | great importance, and that is seeing
 | that none Of the brands conflict, that
 no man has brand that belongs to
 Y another owner of stock even thOugd
 I the two may be separated by the
 length Of the state.
 ! When a new bunch of brands is re-
 ceived in the office, Secretary 'Hawley t who hes this work directly under his
 own charge. has to inspect them for I devices that might possibly conflict,
 because each man recording his I brand selects the brand he desires,
 and then submits it to the secretary, fl Chen. cones the search for conflicts. T indicating what a careful indeXins must be kept in order to save time in the search If 1t is found thas II there is conflict the secretary makes a brand that dogs not conflict with ,iaay in use or recorded, and sends it
 to the owner.
 The stock business in Arizona | through It's Arizona association and T it's membership in the American na- ] tional live stock association, and through the continual endeavor Of the i've stock sanitary board which is re- Ceiving stronger endorsement rom the stOckmen every day, is one O. 1 I;he best organized mutually conducted ] industries in the state. One that is . ] continually growing in wealth and in- huence.