Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-30
TREsPAsS ANIMALS.
They Are Running Shade Trees and
Should be Promptly Attended to.

They Are Running Shade Trees and
Should be Promptly Attended to.
EDS. RECORD UNION feel like having
growl, and appeal to your valuable paper
for hearing, as it is ever ready to cham
pion the right. The Improvement Associ-
alton recommended. your paper urged and
the citizens felt the need and benefit of
shade trees to beautify our streets. In their |
zeal to see our thoroughfares lined with !
ornamental trees, they overlooked one very
important item in tree planting, and that
is the protection of the trees from the raids
of domestic animals allowed to roam the
streets at will. These animals twist the
young trees of with their horns or browse
the tender shoots, and By SO doing dwarf
the trees. After the top of the tree is out
of their reach (if such is ever the case), the
bark is torn off and the tree ruined by the
rope that is generally attached to the an
| imal.
Yet we are asked why we don't plant
| trees, and are dubbed silurians from GER
tain sources. Five years ago planted
row of black walnut at my residence. The
| first year they were ruined, after | had
| been to the expense of employing the
water-carrier to maui water to keep them
alive. l have Strengthened their twisted
stalks and tied them to stakes, but still
they are being eaten off as fast as they can
leaf, and are smaller now than when l set
| them out.
There is, | believe, a city ordinance linn
| iting the number of cows kept by one per-
son. 1t is not enforced. There is pound
| law. and il is entirely ignored, for the sim
| pie reason that the Poundmaster has no
backing to protect him in his duty This
has been instanced at various times, and
the last time he was admonished to be
careful and see that no more complaints
were made against him, or he would lose
| his position.
| If the law is Intellectual to protect the
| many against the few, why not abolish it ?
[ AS it now is there is loose stock on the
streets at all times and the Poundmaster
dares not touch it through fear of a rebuke
| from the law makers, and we with our fam
cied protection are ever worsted.
Sacramento, July IS, 1888. W. c. F.
| 1t is not believed that 1.-The Lawmakers"
will interfere with the Poundmaster for
enforcing the law. The complaints are
generally for violations of the law on
the part of the lassoing official, to the
effect that attempts are perpetrated to
make money by Selling stock, either while
in charge of attendants or taking it from
within private bounds. There have
been some very pointed charges of
these kind Ii is not probable that the
City Fathers will find fault with the
Poundmaster for strict enforcement
of the law. If they should do so. the facts
should be furnished to the press. that they
may be investigated and published, for the
public desires to see every official upheld
and vindicated in the honest and faithful
discharge of his duty. The complaint of
our correspondent as to the depredations of
animals upon shade trees is very serious
one. and should be promptly needed by the
authorities. 1t is to the utmost interest of
the city that shade trees should be planted
and protected and the personal interest
and votes of cow-owners should not for
a moment he allowed to enter into the
question. VIII not the City Trustees
promptly see that all animals liable to in
jure shade trees within the city limits be
so effectually taken at once that their tres
passiDgs will not be longer heard of, nor
the votes the cows are represented to
| have?