Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — Wild Hogs in Arizona. [ARTICLE]

Wild Hogs in Arizona.

The wildest of wild hogs live both above aaid below the Yuma, on the Colorado River. When the lute Thomas Blythe was trying to settle a colony at Lerdo, forty-five miles below Yuma, on the Colorado, he sent down a largo number of very fine full-blooded Berk- 1 shire and Poland-China pigs and turned them loose on the banks of the river near Lerdo, where they lived on roots, grass, weeds, tub's and mesquite beans, bred and multiplied, kept fat and filled the low and tule lands with a large number of fine porkers. Never seeing a human being, except now and then a lone Indian, ffiey soon became wild, and wilder still, and scattered until the wood and lowlands were full of them. Notwithstanding that the coyotes slaughtered the little ones In great numbers, they have Increased, until it is estimated that at the present time there are more than 10,000 of them roaming up and' down the Colorado and Hardle Rivers, from their mouths up as high as the tide runs, or from sixty-five to seventy miles from the gulf. Their range gives them the finest of feed—wild sweet potatoes, tules, stay fish, clams, dead turtles and seaweed along the river bank at lowtide. They are unmolested except now and then by a hunter who finds his way down the river.—Montana Marnier. ;

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