"Barzona Bull"

OPPOSITE PAGE Upper: Bronze street furniture has proven itself to be maintenance-free, with copper's natural patina covering the normal scuffs and scars of busy city exposure. Minneapolis, Minnesota, has eight blocks of this type furnishings.

OPPOSITE PAGE Lower: A new light gauge "Tough 12" high strength copper sheet is a superior choice for roofing. The high yield strength means that copper weight per square foot can be reduced 25% without affecting performance. These panels are from Eastman, a 500 acre recreational development in Grantham, New Hampshire.

RIGHT: One of America's newest bronze landmarks is Chicago's First National Bank Building, the tallest bank building in the world.

OPPOSITE PAGE: After leaving the 84" diameter casting wheel at Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company's rod plant in Miami, Arizona, the continuous bar passes over a powered roller conveyer on it's way to the rolling mills. There it will be reduced from 1/2" thickness to 5/16" rod. - RAY MANLEY STUDIOS BELOW: The final product of Inspiration Consolidated's Miami, Arizona, plant is endless coils of "Inspirod." A normal 15,000 pound coil contains 50,000 feet of 5/16" rod. That is enough copper to produce 19,608,000 feet of 26 gauge telephone wire. RAY MANLEY STUDIOS

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Phoenix Hosts Cowboy Artists Of America Seminar, Exhibition And Sale

An event which has become a highlight of the year in the Western art world the opening of the Annual Cowboy Artists of America exhibition will be held at the Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona this October for the third consecutive year. An estimated 1,300 art patrons will attend the Bicentennial 10th Anniversary Exhibition this year. The opening events an annual sale, a series of seminars, the annual awards banquet, and an autograph party are expected to surpass all previous years.

This year, the opening events are scheduled for October 24 and 25 (the exhibition will open to the public on Oct. 25), and commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the Cowboy Artists of America. Four artists formed the organization in 1965 (Joe Beeler, Charlie Dye, John, Hampton and George Phippen), and it has grown to include 27 artists, described in their bylaws as "fine artists whose subject matter is the West." It's particularly appropriate that the anniversary falls in a bicentennial year, since the group's stated aims are "to perpetuate the culture of the American West by the authentic depiction of that way of life (and) to help guide the public in an appreciation of Western culture. Two seminars and the traditional sale of all works are scheduled to open the exhibition this year. CAA artist Bob Lougheed will demonstrate with slides his technique for drawing and painting living subjects at 1 p.m. and Gene Favell, owner and founder of the Favell Museum of Western Art and Indian Artifacts in Klamath Falls, Oregon, will discuss "An Adventure in Western Art" at 2:45 p.m. The highlight of the day will be the annual preview and sale of all works.

Saturday, October 25, will continue the activities at 10 a.m. with a book sale and autograph party, and a movie of the trail ride (an annual event in which all 27 artists are invited to participate). Following that, a seminar entitled "The Original Print" will be presented by Ben Adams, master printer; and Gordon Snidow will present a seminar entitled "The Making of a Print." The annual awards banquet will complete the events. (Well-known actor Slim Pickens will attend and participate in many of the events.) The exhibition, which is sponsored by the Men's Arts Council of the Phoenix Art Museum, will remain on public display through November 17.

Copper Country Cattle BARZONA

There is something new under the sun, and it's a star! Not a star in the sense of the glowing jewels of the universe, but rather as a performer in a leading role in the economy and cattle business of the Southwest. Its name is BARZONA. This distinctive breed of modern cattle came into being because F. N. Bard, a mechanical engineering graduate of Cornell Uni-versity, who became a Chicago manufacturer, wanted a breed of cattle engineered for the intermountain desert areas of the Southwest and northern Mexico.Bard wanted to engineer a breed of cattle that would thrive in a desolate and variable rangeland, under the stress condi-tions of extreme heat and drought; he wanted cattle to match the environment.

The development of BARZONA cattle started in Arizona in 1942 with the Africander-Hereford cross. The best cows resulting from the breeding were divided into two herds. Santa Gertrudis bulls were used on one and Angus bulls on the other. Progeny were closely culled and crossed back with emphasis on fertility, how well cows mothered their calves, and how much weight was gained.

In 1946, Elliott S. Humphrey, a geneticist who had spent his life working with cattle, horses, and dogs, joined Mr. Bard, and started the long and tedious process of identifying breeds to be crossed, record keeping, and the selection of the best to be bred to the best.

Humphrey's first decision was to study Arizona and its range country. He found that the state varied from southwest to northeast from a relatively low altitude to the highest point north of Flagstaff of more than 12,000 feet. Range type varied from almost barren desert to a largely shrub semi-desert, to a natural grass area except where the mesquite encroached, then to a foothill country and finally the rough mountain area. Much of the country was rated by the Department of Agriculture as being able to carry only two cows per section or 320 acres to a cow.

Temperatures were also to the extreme. Severe drought conditions, deadly parasites, and poisonous weeds were common occurrences. Less determined men than Bard and Humphrey might have given up the project as hopeless. Instead, it became their primary challenge. They intended to produce a breed of cattle that would carry a foot and leg to handle the rough terrain; have the ability to utilize an excess of browse; utilize "wild-type" grazing; withstand severe heat and still remain fertile; built for easy calving; furnish rich milk and produce a fat and healthy calf before weaning; be insect and parasite resistant; and carry excellent quality marbled beef where beef counts!

From the Hereford they were able to cross-breed-in a solid rear end and rangeability; from the Africander they wanted the feet and legs, longer head with wide muzzle, milking ability, high browse utilization, wild type grazing, small calf, heat tolerance, hide and hair, close sheath and body depth.

Next, they wanted some Shorthorn blood to get the spread of pelvis and additional milking ability. In spite of a wide search, they failed to locate a Shorthorn bull with feet to handle the rugged range. Instead, they found a few Santa Gertrudis bulls, 5% Shorthorn and 3/8 Brahman, which carried the Shorthorn factors they needed, plus the Brahman content of being able to utilize browse, drop a small calf, heat resistant hide and hair, and wild type grazing.

These cattle carried the positive and negative genes needed to produce a breed of cattle that would reproduce itself and derive the maximum utilization from the sparse Southwestern rangeland. Crossbreeding and culling depended on expert knowledge of Bard and Humphreys, not only of the basic environment, but the variables of the vast land, and the adaptability of the new breed to the environment and its variations.

This method of getting the genes needed is not so strange, every recognized breed of horse or cattle we have today . . . with the lone exception of the Arabian horse . . . was started by crossbreeding animals for a specific purpose.

The result of the scientific knowledge, patience and determination produced the BARZONA, a modern, lean, meaty animal . . . profitable for the rancher, feeder, packer and consumer. Over 5,000 handsome, red-brown-hided animals have made a cattle paradise out of a barren wasteland.