Item #7550 Description of the Piedmont stock range in Maricopa, Yavapai and Yuma counties, Arizona Territory with observations upon the advantages of Arizona as a stock-raising region. William P. Blake.
Description of the Piedmont stock range in Maricopa, Yavapai and Yuma counties, Arizona Territory with observations upon the advantages of Arizona as a stock-raising region.
Description of the Piedmont stock range in Maricopa, Yavapai and Yuma counties, Arizona Territory with observations upon the advantages of Arizona as a stock-raising region.
Description of the Piedmont stock range in Maricopa, Yavapai and Yuma counties, Arizona Territory with observations upon the advantages of Arizona as a stock-raising region.

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Description of the Piedmont stock range in Maricopa, Yavapai and Yuma counties, Arizona Territory with observations upon the advantages of Arizona as a stock-raising region.

New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1886. 12mo (7” x 4.75”), brown cloth with gilt title at front cover. 20 pp. CONDITION: Very good, one ding to spine, minor wear to covers; contents bright and clean.

A scarce promotional work on the Piedmont region of Arizona and its prospects for stock-raising, composed by a noted geologist and mining consultant.

Especially fertile, with grassy regions (bunch grass and other nutritious mountain grasses), and free from great extremes of heat and cold, the Piedmont region in central Arizona Territory is promoted here as ideal for stock-raising. Covered first is the Martinez Rancho, the oldest cattle ranch location established in Arizona, and the extent of its feeding ground; the number of cattle now on the ranch; improvements made to the ranch; its current need of a pipeline for new water stations, and its adjoining range owned by General Crook. Detailed next is Barney Martin’s Station, located between Phoenix and Prescott, with a water supply for stock piped-in from the Walnut Grove Reservoir. Four opinions on Arizona as a stock country are provided by engineer Mr. Wilton, statistician Patrick Hamilton, botanist Mr. Lemon, and author Mr. Richthofen. The work is rounded out with overviews of the Piedmont Range’s climate; the average annual increase of stock; stock-raising profits; the increasing value of stock ranges; access to the Piedmont stock range; refrigerator transportation; stock laws of Arizona; the brand adopted by Mr. J. R. Frink and bought by the Piedmont Cattle Company; a list of some of the valuable grasses and herbage which grow upon the Piedmont Stock Range, and an overview of the Piedmont Cattle Company.

Born in New York and educated at Yale, William Phipps Blake (1826–1910) was a geologist, mining consultant, and educator. During the 1850s, Blake became the first college-trained chemist to work full-time for a U.S. chemical manufacturer and also served as a geologist with the Pacific Railroad Survey. From the 1850s on, he published over 200 articles, multiple books, and wrote widely in periodicals on mining and geology. Throughout his career he worked as a mining consultant for mining corporations in numerous western states and several foreign countries, including Japan. Blake ended his long career as head of the school of mines at the University of Arizona (1895–1905), and remained in active emeritus status until his death in 1910. His other published works include Bodie and Esmeralda, Being an Account of the Revival of Affairs in Two Singularly Interesting and Important Mining Districts… (1878); Description of the Fossils and Shells Collected in California (1855); Description of the Silver King Mine of Arizona (1883), and The Mineral Deposits of Southwest Wisconsin (1893).

OCLC records only four copies, at Yale, Princeton, the Autry Museum, and the Arizona State Library.

A scarce and quite interesting booklet promoting stock-raising in Arizona in the 1880s.

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