The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-07
IN THE NORTH COUNTRY.
The Losses in Cattle-The Value Of Corn
as Feed.

as Feed.
WOODRUFF, May 3, 1s9O.-[Special cor.
respondence of THE HERALD. l-On April 80,
the Cutler Dramatic Company, of Amy,
Wyoming, played the old familiar play,
''The Lady of Lyons" at the Temple of
Honor hall, for the benefit of John Neil a
miner, who lost his arm while working in
the coal mines.
Having had the pleasure of attending
the performance and being well enter
tanned thereby, the writer feels he would
like the readers of The HERALD to know
that we have good dramatic talent in this
northern country, and that there are
those who can derive pleasure from and
also appreciate the labors of even anna
teurS.
And by the way. we always hear of this
company giving benefits for somebody
or something, now to assist in building a
church, then TO aid some unfortunate
fellow being, at the same time furnishing
amusement and instruction for the people.
Such organizations should be fostered and
encouraged in our sparsely settled regions,
as we are not all able to take four dollars
and go to hear Booth and Barrett, conse-
Quently we only have what amusement
we create ourselves.
There was good audience and I under
stood the receipts were some over 800.
l could see there was some uneasiness
among the audience, few apparently
prefering something more like the Cattle
Kings or Chinese tragedy, where they
all get killed, but one aud he winds UP the
play by committing suicide.
The people here are Just sizing them
selves up alter a hard winter, burning or
| burying their dead cattle, etc. With some
the loss of cattle and horses has been
4 heavy, with others very light, showing that
some peoples grass stood the drouth
! better last summer than others.
There would have been a much greater
loss, if it had not been for Nebraska corn,
which the Union Pacific very kindly
so our corn only stood US about $l3 per ton
while hay was selling at SIS and up.
If we could always get corn as cheap,
we could do well feeding our beef steers
every winter, as those who tried it las,
winter pronounce it a success, our steers
here taking on fat very fast when fed
corn. it would be great benefit to us
and also to the corn raisers, but / suppose
that would be reason enough to prevent
such a scheme.
i Our crops are most all in, lucerns looks
well, and we seem sure of big crop OF
hay, as I'VE have plenty of water. The
health of the people is good; in fact it is
generally good here. | attribu this a good
deal to our climate; as the germ of disease,
! like that Of grain, must be surrounded by
certain favorable conditions for some length
of time, in order to terminate; now, as our
climate undergoes constant change, having
at least, three of the seasons every twenty
| four hours, it is very apt to interfere with
the termination of anything. You can &C
out for short buggy ride anytime with
straw hat and buster, and land home with
overcoats and mittens, or vice versa
AS all people, in time, partake, more OF
less, of the characteristics OF their country
so do we. We have to start out Sunday
morning On a voyage of discovery to ascer
tain where meeting will be held, as it is
not often held twice in the same place
This is partially owing to having lost pos
session of our westinghouse.
We look to see work commenced on the
Pacific Short line soon. 1t runs through
here; at least the survey does, and then we
look for boom to strike Us, which will be
the greatest change yet.