The Mountain Sheep and its Range 



Later the Papago Indians in the southwest began 

 killing them for the market. These people, as did 

 also the Mexicans, killed big and little, and the 

 animals, never abundant, were threatened with ex- 

 termination. Those killed by the Logans came 

 from the Tucson Mountains; those killed by the 

 Mexicans from the Santa Catalinas, and those 

 killed by the Indians probably from the Baboqui- 

 vari or Comobabi ranges. I questioned the hun- 

 ters repeatedly, but they never gave me a satisfac- 

 tory answer. 



"Although I never saw the sheep, I have re- 

 peatedly seen evidence of them in both the ranges 

 named. Inasmuch as I have not seen one in 

 several years past, I feel very confident that there 

 are not many to see. Last year I learned of a large 

 ram being killed in the Superstition Mountains 

 which was alone when killed. About three years 

 ago the head of a big ram was brought to this city. 

 It is said to have weighed seventy pounds. I did 

 not see it, nor did I learn where it came from. 



"The Superstition and the Santa Catalinas are 

 the very essence of ruggedness, but notwithstand- 

 ing this I am constrained to believe that the days 

 of big game are nearly numbered in Arizona. The 

 reasons for this are readily apparent. The moun- 

 tain ranges are more or less mineralized. To this 



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