El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25
DESPITE LABOR DIFFICULTIES
ARIZONA HAS PROSPEROUS YEAR
Increased Production of Mines Up to Time of Strike Is
Factor; Every Line of Business Shows Gains and
Population of State Shows Effect of Greater Deve-
opment in INDUSTRIES Growth in Agriculture
BY II. :. HUNTER.

some extent in the past six months
. because OF some months Of drouth.
i Owing to shortage Of forage and
I water, the cattle did not fdtteu ana
7 IN some instances had a hard fight 10
I live Available reports. however. do
not indicate. any considerable losses
The drouth was broken recently by
a number OF heavy rains which have
filled up the water holes and are
bringing out summer grass on the
hills, valleys and plains. The ranges
viii soon be I'm good shape. with every
indication that the cattle Will De
strong i'm time for the fail shipments
sale Of Big Ranch.
The one big incident in the cattle
business in Arizona in the past SIX
months was the purchase Of the big
COburu cattle ranch on and near the
san Carlos Apache Indian reservation
in eastern Arizona by W j. young
and j. y Robinson, the latter or
whom is cashier Of the First Ma
tiOual bank of Globe. Tie deal is
said 20 have involved about $500, 600
The purchasers are the owners also
of the Bar-F ranch in the same
neighborhood. They also recently
bought large cattle ranch near
Prescott
Ostrich Industry Declines.
One industry OF which the salt
river valley once boastei is now de-
cliuins and may soon pass out Of ex-
cerued. because of the waning popu-
larity Of ostrich feathers. 1t is
ostrich raising Though several
thousand Of the big birds are still
70 be found in the valley. the end OF
the business on a large scale is pre-
saEet by the sale Of the Pau-Ameri-
can Ostrich cOmpany's great ranch
near Cashion, west Of Phoenix
The ranch has been purchased by
the SCARBOROUGH brothers OF Fort
%
Scott. Of Douglas. Ariz. has been
placed in charge and the property
is TO Dee made into model stock
farm. To viii be stocked with regis
tered Heref0rds from the Texas
ranches Of the purchasers They eN-
pect To fatten on the ranch about
1000 head q year
Road Construction.
Two important road building pro-
1ects are under way in the state. The
larger ls the construction Of road
from the Clifton-MorencI district in
Greenlee county to connect with
SprinEerville I'm Apache county. open
ing up a new section and Iraversiug
one Of the most beautiful regions fin
the west The other is a Construc-
ton program voted by the board or
supervisors Of ella county. by which
S15f,105-T5 viii be spent this year.
About half the amount viii 90 to the
FL Captain highway which is TO be
built around the eastern end Of the
Piual mountains TO take the place OK
the preciuitOus Pioneer road across
the mountains over which Hayden
and WinkIeman are now reached
The new road viii have no heavy
grades and VIII be no longer than
the present road. IL is claimed Funds
also are provided for the repair or
the international highway east OF
Rice This thOrOughfare has been
out Of use for more than a year.
but now IS being Travelled aflin.
after the restoration Of couple OF
bridges which were washed away by
high water In Pima county. con-
struction Of a road from Tucson 20
Aio. about so miles has been under
taken. partly this year. and a bette
road from Tucson TO Nogales, 55
miles, is in prospect
Growth OF Aio.
A1o is a new town which has come
forward very rapidly with the open
ing Of mining operations by the New
COrnelia Copper company. a subsl-
diary Of the Calumet and Arizona
Copper company. The New COrnelia
is now producing copper at the rate
OF about 2.o00. 900 pounds a month
from its mines and 5000 ton teaching
plant The town was made 10 order
by the New COrnelia company. with
houses, stores and public buildings
OF far higher class than usually are
found In any small town. mining
town or not The town is now grow
ing rapidly has achieved permanence
and is already being talked Of as
second Bisbee- The company recently
announced its intention Of construct
ing a 5000 ton concentration which
viii cost upward Of $4,000, 900