The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-05

lle been located, and the surrounding
10 hills or plains covered with cattle
~ Heretofore, since the advent of the
n continental railway, the winters have
IN been, as a rule, very mild, the losses
10 by severe weather very lignt, amount
nj ing 10 about two per cent. The pro-
70 fits have, owing to the great demand
- for eat RI markets, been more
: THAI large, consequently the 'herder
who makes an honest living, no man
can tell how" passed through life, as
happy as a niger at q picnic, a
Dutch Turnverin Society on an ex-
cursion, or as jubilart as the average
ring bowler in Utah when he thinks
there is going to be spt cial legislation
for Utah. This winter has caused a
change to come over the spirit of
their dreams. The winter has been
unusually severe, the snow tall greater
by half than in any season since the
memorable winter OF '62. The coun-
try hss been oVerstccked with cattle.
The ranges, through drouth for the
past three years and overstock of
cattle, have been eaten out, and as a |
consequence the cattle are dying by |
hundreds. I am informed by per
sons who should be well posted, that
not less than sixty per cent. of the
stock will perish. During a recent
trip as far southwark as the LAHORE
Canon l counted not less than 500
dead animals, and this ia not tith-
ing OF the numberless multitude
which lies in out OF the way places
which will probably never be seen.
The effect on the heretofore happy
go-easy coWpuncher is fearful to con.
template. There is now in their
camps a sound of weeping and wall
ing and crashing of teeth, such as
holy writ says there will be amongst
the spirits of the damned. Their
countenances exhibit about as much
sweetness as appears in the vissge of
federal Office holder when he learns
that some other mans toes are Itch
ing for a chance to creep into his 9
shoea; that some ether hand is being !
stretched forth to grasp his salary and j
perquisites. {
THE LADoRE Canon. {
Many persons annually visit Eu-
rope, or run helter-skeIter over our
own broad land, seeking for the
grand, the picturesque; the sublime.
and the beautiful. Here, in this O
Canon of Ladore, is concentrated the r
superlative OF all that is grand, :,
beautiful, picturesque and sublime. .
The Uintsh range OF mountains run =
ming eastward, is cut By the Green
River, ard forms one of the grandest
pieces OF scenery have ever beheld,
aud l have, as a good woman in your
city once said of her son, "been
round considerable, down to Dixie, n
over to Hooper's herd and out 10 y
CoalVjlle." The roar OF the cataract; Il
tia soughing and gurgling of the n
waters as they rush around and over e.
tae huge boullers which vainly seek b
to obstruct their onward flow; the o
moaning aud signing OF the winds, as a
they rush, frost laden, through the a
narrow deile; the stupenduous SEEM t:
iRgly hesven-reaching cliff OF dark O.
gray and deep red sandstone, weather s
beaten and polished, turret.cspped 81
and forest-croWned, forming, appar- t
emily, an arch OF living green; the 81
chasm itself whose overhanging battl- fl
ing cliffs form deep death-hke shad- a
ows into which the ray5 Of the winter b
sun Fever penetrate, the beholder "
instinctively bsres his head in re- ST
verential silence. It reminded me Il
forcibly of description 1 once heard ct
given by an eloquent Methodist
divine, OF the entrance to the place 10
where the spirits OF those who refused m
to come forward to the mourHers il
bench st that time, that being the st
only accepted time, would forever tt
dwell. OF
THE SPORTS PARADISE. u
This browns Park section OF y
is the paradise for sporting ~
men. Deer can be seen at almost -
any time during the winter solstice, x
in droves, numbering from ten TO
fifty. Large numbers Of elk frequent
the foothills, ranging through the o.
vast forests of pinion and cedar. To VI
the eastward, on the plains OF the
Vermillion, antelope can be found q! =
all seasons, in herds innumersble. ?
The river and its tributary creeks =
are filed almost 10 OVERLOOKING with
trout ard other species OF the fiuny
tribes. Here we catch a fish which -.
[ think is not generally known to the =
lovers of the art piscstorisl. The
Ieviathan, for such it would be called
5y the hardy mariners and fishermen
Of the River Jordan and Utah Lake, =.
often weighs fifty pounds. Similar u
in come respects to a salmon, it is yet v
not a salmon. White, frm-heshed, az
heavy in the body, sluggish in move te
ment, wide, toothless mouth, free OF q
smell bones, it Is uudeniably the II
finest fish have ever eaten, being, 81
in my estimation, far ahead OF either O.
trout or salmon. b
A STRANGE BEDFELLoW.
Apropos of hunting and fishing,
did you ever hear OF a wild cat taking q
possession CT a spare bed in an in :,
habited cabin. Such q case really :,
occurred this winter in this vicinity. q !.
at the herd house CT Overholt & u
Grouse. A Mr., Burns had been left u
in charge, and for several nights, after .
he had retired, was disturbed by v
scrambling noise in the chimney, :!
followed by the sight of tao glazing, .
fiery eyebslls in the opposite bed; and y
when he (Burns) moved or made U
noise the low. fierce groWl Of some
wild animal. This kind OF thing, oc-
curing for several nights in success
sion, so discomposed Burns that be il
finally vsmosed the rancho, and for o
some time the intruder had things his o
own way. With plenty of fat beef i
and Yenison 10 store, he must have 3
come to the conclusion that he had I
struck comfortable quarters. John
Garrison. a miner. hearing of the cir
cumst4nce, made his way to the herd \
house. determined to interview the
beast that had taken possession.
When be arrived at the ranch about
4 O'Clock pm, be was somewhat sur
prised to find the animal in bed and \
disposed to fight Tor the Garcelonated c
establishment; but at sight of the gun
the miner carried he few up the |
chimney and into the brush. CARR