The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-11
THE ESTRAY Law.
BEAR RIVER. Feb. 9. 1880.

IN DEAR RIVER rep. y, 1851.
-, ~ Editors Herald:
d. Inotice in your paper one of tno'
se chronic GROWERS (Cultivator) hE
:, nuch to say about the Legislator
; amending the estrsy pound LAW
d From the tenor of his sayings
. should judge that he cultivated it'll
else than pickles, and has then
three times day. Now, Mr.. Editor
: II he was q farmer he would wan
n his orchard fenced; he would have
q his farm fenced, for his own con
venience. am farmer, have had
> large herds, and am in favor of no
( fence law, but believe that the main
thoroughfares should be fenced, and
50 they are when you come to
farmers. That S. steer must
have hooked him; as he and
his stray pound keeper fail TO hook
the steer, or else he would not be so
hostile. As the estray pound Law
was, 1t was nothing more or less than
a legal thieviLg pen, and many q
lazy cultivator took the advantage OF
it, by putting a few grains of wheat
along the roadside, and as be says
mounting the fence and watching for
the 50 steer. Steers are always
worth more than So to the owner,
and always S. to the would-be cul-
tivator.
l will give him few instances of
estrsy cultivatlng. We had a mule
get away from the train aud went
back TO Cottonwood, and meandered
into corn field of which the owner
was a pound keeper, who assessed I
the damages himself, and put the {
mule to work N the canon, worked
him poor, and then wanted to oulti- I
Yate me for SIS for his keep; ninety {
head of cattle that were let out OF q b
and started back to the b
range. were stopped by some enter. d
prising cultivator sitting on the fence, u
and taken to the estrsy pound. No q
damages, but $50 for impounding; q G
horse got out OF corral, went north RI
rom Salt Lake City, reached over
ence and eat out OF q stack, was to
.ssessed SOC. by the pound keepers pl
taken to the pound, 81
dvertised, las is usual where no OF
ne could see it, sold and bought in JC
y the said brother-in law. for the vi
expenses. Not a cent for school tn
honey. l might keep on until / VII
lied columns OF cases that know to
I. Once more: l know OF an estrsy tel
Ound that runs ell winter, and the OF
'ttlem ent has but little in the fol
BRING but the pound, and preach blt
g keeper. re-
Cultivator wants a law that will qu
We him the steer, the moment he rel
mes on his uncultivated land. He i'm
lieVes in shooting the steer, kind de-
otheIl y feeling, wants to destroy tht
at which his brother worked for, ito
I'd he knows more than all the ha
'gislatures OF Utah, and his time is ins
valuable-$1 an hour. How pro- un
Sc in language. The article is ina
u of Misrepresentation. The steer .
1T haunts his dreams is to be turned to
again on the man he damaged. Lei
cad the law that the steer is to be for
d, and the proceeds to be given to side
3 district school, which is right, enc
under the old law, where are the tha
1ceeds of the hundreds of thousands a
dollars that estrsys have been sold por
F.? 1 will venture to say there never for
S 81, 900 placed to the credit of the 188
nmon schools The law itself was trie
utility, and would not hold water SIS
ore an honest Judge. In conclu- cas-
u, Mr.. Cultivstor, eat more beef coll
less hog, and let the Legislature tots
ne. Also the S. steer, and Guilt $23
g little reason and more regard Apl
truth, and l promise you that I
er will not trouble you more. and
THE HERMIT. sur
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