The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-04
HORSES.
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What DR.. Faust Knows About
Them on the Slope. 1
HIS PAPER, ON THE SUBJECT,
u -lA .S
Read at the Convention of Range
/ Rulers, Held in Denver Last !
IL Week and This.


l Rulers, Held in Denver Last I
4 Ii Week and This.
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among the many papers read at the
Convention of range men. which has
Just concludedl its sessions, in Denver,
I, wasithefollowing, on the 3 Range Horse
Industry Of the, Pacific Slope by DR..
In. ]. Faust, president of the Utah
= cattle and Horse Growers Associstiou'
Il which was delivered on Monday last:
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: IT, President and Gentlemen Of the Con-
tehti6a!! ga
= would much ratfeEhaye listened to
some one else Of my oo7laborers in the
horse interest than TO be heard myself,
II but as you have wiIleddt, so itmust be
have been horse breeder for oyer
ta-t,t afBeF OF century, with varied sue
cess. went to California. thirty-two
years ago and became connected with
Professor George Bartholomew, the
greatest horse trainer now living.
Travelling throughout California to-
gether, we had ample opportunity to
see the horses of that State.
Passing by the old missions
and seeing many horses on the
| plains between Los Angeles and San
Diego, was struck with their beauty,
which caused me to inquire of priest
where their ancestors came from. He
replied that the priests marlborough
them from Spain and their ancestors
had been imported from Arabia. In
deed, they were handbme, but very
small, which, believe, {s-the case with
all Arabian horses. ,s,.ss sls2i
Year after wear the Immigrant and
the Spectator brought good stations to
the coast, which we're bred to these
handsome little mares, producing
medium half breed horse.
Many OF these mares were driven
to Utah, -wbicfflrtAen consisted
of all that I country, between Green
River, Wyoming, and the Sierras Ne
vada, and were bred in like manner,
and have produced a wonderful horse
OF all-work
In 1858, I became connected with the
great Overland Stage Company, and
soon after with the Pony Express. We
handled hundreds of horses, which gave
US fair opportunity of judging of the
speed and endurance of all classes. We
i %as edd hf e'sE t%S from nO the
States, one and a half from Oregon,
and only equaled by the Lower
Californian horse in endurance. Many
of you have heard stage drivers tell of
long drives, and many long run made
when Indians were alter them and the
Pony Express men who still live, will
also tell of those noble little horses that
carried them from danger when chased /
by ~ Indians 15i, ISL; J :
not one OF all the express men chased
Indians that was ever taken in. There
You will want to know why these
during than horses from the
eastern States and countries 2 |
1t IS Simply because they have better !
lungs, better hoof and better muscle. |
It is well-knOwn fact that all animals !
are prepared by Natures for the climate |
which theysliye in. This singh altitude !
has provided these horses with large |
lungs sthe climate being dry hardens |
the hoofs, and the soil being gravely |
wears the boot so that it has an oppor- |
tunity to grow natural shape
The colt. being born in the noun /
tains or valleys, frequently miles from /
water, has to aceomaanyTits. mother to !
water within thehYt twentyfohrhours; |
this is kept up daily .guftif- .grewh.I
have seen some of my herds ten miles
from water, and this continued travel |
has a tendency to muscle. Young |
horses do not materially differ from |
boys in their romping or racing and |
playing. l have seen these colts get |
outside OF the band and run for miles in |
vieing with each other in race. This
gives them the action TheseythFee re-
requisite, and that is nerve. i
ut is a well-knowni fact that. it |
is the same with a horse as
with man. If he possesses no
will power he will not accomplish |
much. The roaming life the horse lives
until be becomes of age has about the
same effect on him as life on the plains |
has on man. hence he is better han-a
horse born and bred IN stable, led up I
and Town the lane by a man afoot, or
turned Into small pasture where hess
can Hjamp and play,and look over the
fence and-wish~h were out with the |
other horses in the next pen, r, ,,tzn a. A /
- What has been said of the Utah 7
horses must be said efthe dafo. gNes}f
yada. Montana, w wyoming and Colorado
horses. RI |
.GNhede is the Western man who can.
not tell you of extraordinary drives or
dies that lie has made some time with |
his hofses 2. The eastern NAN will ask: 7
Bat V hat is their pedigree S.'s1To him |
l can say: Every pedigree in theland. ~ 7
The horse Is very much ike the Ameri- !
can people made up of all nations. !
and, like the Ameriuant is I'm many in.
stances better than those3hercame from. |
This, gentlemen is the history, in brief.
of the past on the Pacific Slope. ]. ~
Now. we. come to the present. We
find N = :. : =, ~ : II
a :. CALIFORNIA, G 81
The most salubrious sclimate, with thel
gentle sea breezes of the Is Pacific
Ocean that not only inyig6rats the |
vegetable kingdom, but the animal al king