The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-06-03
TIE OLD NUISANCE.
A Few Pertinent Remarks From a
Sufferer.
SALT LAKE Cry. May %. 80.

SALT LAKE Cry, May 20, 80.
Editors Herald:
1t is good time nov to open your
complaint book" and hear from
sufferers upon one subject especially.
aud that is the nuisance of estray
animals" While to q great many
1t may seem to be a matter of but
trivial Importance, to those who ttke
just pride in the appearance of
their homes it becomes important 10
order that they may reap the fruits
OF their labor and expense. Well
Kept lawns, with choice shrubbery
and clean sidewalks. with shade trees
and a clean water ditch, are pleasant
to have, but these cannot exist while
subject to the WautOn and wholesale
destruction caused by a lot Of hungry
and half-stRIved cattle. Now let Us
look at it a moment and see how the
matter stands. By authority of a
city ordinance the wstermaster noti-
fies each lot owner or resident tba;
his bitches must be cleared out by
certain time, as he Is about to turn in |
the water. This person, If be owns
corner lot. has thirty rods of ditch |
which the year previously he had |
fixed in good shape. But owing to
the fact that another and as import
ant an ordinance had been entirely
ignored by the city officials, cattle
had browsed along bis ditch both day
and night, breaking down and csving
the mud banks thereof. until now the
water will hardly flow throu III them.
More than thls-they haye not only
eaten of and broken down his shade
trees, broken his gates and fences,
.Todden over his lawn, eaten up his
choice roses and other shrubs, but
nave Uttered up his sidewalk in
ront of his house aud elsewhere and
crushed in the covers over the secs
crossing his sidewalk.
Now all this, apart entirely from
he danger to children and pedes
Iisns, must be submitted to for years
{ a question is asked, the answer is
well, there is q Law against loose
'attle," and there it stops. while the
ana annoyance goes on.
iorses and mules are turned out {
sly and il a neighbor &
hances to have little grass along t
is sidewalk they are turned in that t
ERECTION. II he has shade trees. the Is
attic lie there the whole day long I
q warm weather and woe be to 6
arden if gate be cafelessly lett open Z
r rail be loose. The inevitable small I
oy with his Upper and three or four s
ows seeks the same shady spots the '
etter to avoid the flies, heat OF sun f
nd to find an opportunity for his
Kill upon the small birds in the trees.
Now Mr.. Editor, not to take up too o
luch OF your space, this picture is
OF only not overdrAwn, but that it is
ne experience OF many is too true.
an we not have some relief from
roper officers? They may say as they c
ave often done" Make a complaint" L
lake a complaint against whom2 4
gainst the COW? The owner is not
nown and il inquiry is made nobody I
noWs whose property she is. Shall
g send them to the pound? But
lust one hire man to do what the a
W requires the officers OF the e
ty to do and be at the expense o
the same? It ia often said, well .
at up with it, for it may be u
me poor widows cow" and this Q
me COW must be allowed to
lnoy a whole neighborhoos because, o
rsooth. it may discommode some
le individual. Now this caunot be
ther right OF just that the many
Iould suffer for the perhaps pre- Il
.rious good of enc. Cannot come A
ing be done in this matter, that
i'll induce the proper officers 10
lforce all,Iaws alike7 viii not others
this city speak through your
lumns upon this subject and con il
hue the agitation until we can be "a
/ of one annoyance at least2 n
3Itaiuly request OF this kind is not l
and if the officers make Ell
few enemies by Kidding our streets t.
stray and purposely turned out D.
tile, they will earn the eternal tc
altitude OF the masses. n
ANNOYED. V