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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1881)
March, 1881. THE , WEST. SHORE. HOLSTEIN CATTLE. A breed of cattle whioh. ih introduced on thii ooaat torn yean ago, but whioh team to hv never secured the recognition whioh they deserve, ii the breed known m Holstein or Dutch. We are not aware of the quality of the animals brought to this State, nor why they were not more widely spread. In faot our in quiries in the paper, and out of it, hare brought to light bat one tirm of HoUteiu breeder, and they are Messrs. Stewart, of North Yamhill, Oregon. They have a mull herd of ohoioe ani mate and are breeding carefully. If there are other who are breeding the llulsteins pur we ihould like to know who they are and what they have done with the breed. We take an interest in the oattla because we know that when they an of true blood they are very satis faotory dairy animal. W do not lay that colon, 1 a very bandaom animal. Th Hoi. tein bull i now being need to a considerable extent in orowiug upon th nativ dairy oow at th East, and hie prepotanoy in transmitting the desirable charaAtoriettmt of hi hrd if ar!tH by th progeny whioh w have seen. THE R0SAR10 MINES, MEXICO. Th mine of th Rosario mining company ar located in the Rosario mountain, a spur of the Sierra Madre, a distance of 100 milea from the port of Ajiavatnpo, on the gulf of California, to whioh there is a good road about 00 miles from the city of Alamo where there is a mint, and about 30 milea from the oity of Kl Fusrte, They are surrounded by an estate of 100,000 acres of land belonging to the oompaiy. . At the base of the mountain about two mile from the mine, a number of streams unit and form 43 ft, in on plao falling to show th walls. Developments hav ohlotly been limited to th Duloea Nombre and Dieoubridora, on th east sid of th mountain, and the Han Uafaol on th wt iM. Thar la already at th min a No. 4 Burleigh air compressor to run seven stoplng drills, saw mill to cut timber from th lumber en th property, a briok maobin fur making brick for tit furnaces and homes, and alio a mill for grinding sugar can upon the ranoh. The Dasoanso ranoh, belonging to th oom. pany, and on whioh th mine ar titual 1. com prise 100,000 sores of land well watered and wooded, and perfectly adapted for agriculture, pmduoing among other things Cuban sugarcane, maias, potatoes, wheat, bananas, plautains, or angee, eto. Within a short diitano of the Knearlo and In the earns rang ar many other well-known and . IS, nn.nn ." "".I - " ii.iim.il . they ar superior to the milkiog strslns of Short Horns In producing capacity, nor to ths Jem jt in richness of milk) but placing, th cattle oo their own basis, w can ssy that they have a good claim to th consideration of the dairy tr an, both became of their history and the records of their preeent aeoomplishmant in th Ksstern dairy State. They have been bred for cento, riee in Holland especially with view to th production of milk, and their present ohsrsctar stioe tr therefor well established. We shall allude to this point of th cattle mora fully at torn future tiro when w shall present a por trait of th IJolstein oow, Th Introduction of th modern Holstoin was begun in this oentnry by .Mr. Wiuthroo W. Cbeoery, of Massachusetts, In 1857, and now is earned on by a soor or mora of breeders In different part of th ootmtry. On of th lead ing importers I Mr. Ueorg E. Brown, of Elgin, Illinois, th owner of th animal shown upon this page. Th boll is a representative on and with his brilliant contrast of black and whit AN IMPORTED HOI-STEIN HULL, an abundant supply of wster, Her th mill will b erected and the raduotion work estab lished, the ore from the mine being brought on the wire rope tramway before referred to. Th Itoeario mine were discovered by D m Bruno Eiquer in IHM, They ooneiat of a group of nine mines, under the following names. Duloes Nombr, Han Joe, Bueno Ke, Carmen, San Oeoovera, l'roviilencia, Han Rafael, Hoooransa and Diaaubrblora. They are on one vein and together embrao a diaUno of 0.(100 ft. Th veto is 4,000 ft. above tea level, tod th adjoining valley 2,000(1 Th work don oo th various mines by th Mexican owners ha all been of a rude and primitive shsrsctsr. Th vein has been at tacked only where an unusually rich plao pre sented itself In th outcrop, and worked only so far as tit great richness of the or paid th owner well for in reduction by th rude pro eeaa employed for the) purpose. Yet sli rec ord of the mint show t yield of over mil lion dollar, Th vein I vary wid, a eat of profitable mineei among other th Trinidad. Jesus Maris and yululere, in th Ktateof Ho. nore, the Uriqul lletonilaa, Morales, Jouuls- u la ami wuauaiup y Lalvo, In Chihuahua, and th I'sliuarsjo, In Hinalu. Th itoeario oonv isnv Is a New York orifanlutinn liana..) ll.n B, MuC'lsllen being I'resldenl, th other True tee being A. ilegowisnlt, Hon Hugh J. Jewett, Wm. II. Hays, Herman It, IWIU-r, lion, David A. Walls, lUrmso Drtelarand W. K. Kimball. Th general manager, a gentlemen of wid -perl.no and acknowledged sbllity, who la now at th mines, Is Donald MoNail I'aluier, Km:. Th prim mover in the organisation was W, v. Ms r'srland.'Ksq., of New York, to whom Is du th credit of having undertaken the project, rWu 'a Cswsit.-Mu oommerolal sine wbiU with one half tie bulk of (In sand, adding so. lotto) of chlorid of lino of I.!f0 ipecillc grav ity, and rub th whols thoroughly together la mortar. Th miitur mast be applied at one, as It hardens very quickly,