The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-14
UINTA STOCK FARM
The Great Work Being Done by
Mr.. A. C. BeckWith.
THE WESTERN HORSE THE BEST
A Model Farm and Luxurious Home-PrOflts
In Raising Blooded Stock-A Poor
Horse is No Horse.

EVANSTON, Feb. 10, 1871 Correspond
ence of THE HEIALDl-I am here looking
over the stock. The first is at the great
Beckwith, Quinn g. Co.'s ranch. fifty miles
north of here, down the Bear river. The
ranch contains $4,000 acres of land under
fence, producing wheat, barley. oats and
hay, and 5000 head of cattle, well bred and
large. There are 900 head of steers feeding |
for the eastern market. There are also on
this farm 1000 head of horses, the original
stock of which were Oregon mares and
Kentucky stations These are broken and
sold in the Chicago market at prices rang
ing from 5000 to $3.50 a span, the actual cost
of producing them being about $40 each at
four years old. How do the eastern people
feel when four year-olds cost them from
$50 to $500 per head, and not as good as
these mountain horsesa Everything |
| on this ranch is systematized !; |
manure is hauled on the land in
winter to make more hay and grain for
summer; stables and cOrrals are always in
good repair. They have other ranches and
farms where stock is kept. In summer the
stock runs on the everlasting hills to get
fat, aud fat they do get Mr.. Beckwith in
formed me that half of the land lay in
Wyoming and the balance in Utah. Both
cattle and farm are assessed and division
made between the two territories, the
Utah assessment being IL mills, and that of
Wyoming SO mills How is that for good
| government in U tab!
| A. G. Beckwith's
| UINTA TRoTTING FARM
lays in the southeast corner of Evanston,
and contains many hundred acres, all sowed
in grasses, well fenced and cross-fenced
with lumber and cedar posts. There are
thousands of trees around and through the
place. A good half-mile track is one Of the
features.
The stable, with box stalls for all the
trotters, is the best [ have ever seen. 1t is
as clean as diningroom, with all the
modern improvements therein. Mr.. Beck
with's dwelling is just opposite the road
and he can sit in his parlor and oversee
everything-which he does. The horses OF
various ages inhabit this grand farm and
stables. To do them justice you will have
to see them, and see their performances, L
have no time, and you no space to do them
justice. Suffice it to say that Mr.. Beck
with and other horsemen believed that
horse could be produced in this interior,
and mountainous country, all things being
equal, namely, breeds and training He,
ten years ago, went to Kentucky, and pur-
, chased the best in the land, regardless Of
representatives., Bedford's American
Stars and many others OF the leading trot-
l tiers Of America. He represents George
, Wilkes who has sons and grandsons, and
daughters-over one hundred and fifty that
trotted from 2:30 down to 2:194.
THE HORSE FAUST
that he has just sold to Montana parties for
So 900, was purchased in Kentucky as colt
and reared here His power of endurance
? was so great that he in a race made 2:1S14 as
a three-year- old, in the second heat in
Montana, on a slow half mile track, in an
altitude of 5000 feet above the sea, shut
q ting the other horse out. Allowing five
seconds for altitude, seven seconds for half
: mile track, to say nothing for slow track,
9 and if the horse had been pushed, where
q would AXtels or SunoPs time have been
e Take II from 2:1S4 would leave 1861
u He was ruled off the track at Denver, that
T being the only way they could beat him
d He is now going on i've years old, and Will
s start this summer. You horsemen, look
' out for something to drop. This is only
II one of the many that he has got. Mr.
g Beckwith, like Senator Stanford, studies
.. the science of breeding, and the end thereof
is not yet. We said, in paper read before
=, the Denver stock convention four or five
n, years ago, that the time would come wher
= California horses would be so fast tina
N they would be handicapped in the east, ant
IS that Mr.. Beckwith would trot down tn
d Rocky Mountains and tell the east to ge
n out of his way. Both have been realized
and still more are coming. Our reason
have been, and we have seen no reason t
change them yet. that horse raised il
this interior country has larger lung, o.
account of the light, pure air of thi
of climate. 1t is ell-established fact tina
nature provides the animal for its climate
The muscles are enlarged by having NOR
IL acres to run over while growing. Tn
is hoof, so essential to q trotter, is obtaine
II through the dry climate
Does it pay to raise trotters? Sc
ct Stanford's sales in the east: see Mr.. Beck
'e with's catalogue and see his last year.
u sales, sixteen head (some colts) bringin
he S29, 900.
Mr.. L. G. Hardy, of Salt Lake. pun
chased one horse for 49, 800 Mr.. Becl
GU with says that horse is a great success.
IL, See the pool box that brought him at tn
'st Faust race SD, 200 that, added to So, 600 wi
9r, make a clear 1000, say nothing of whs
IT. he could have won at Denver IL he had no
lg, been ruled off the track.
lst 1t is no more trouble to raise good hors
re, than scrub. l would not advise ever
nd horseman to go into raising trotters, 6
ir. there are but few men who understand tn
r; science of speeding. The balance can G
nd into breeding Clydesdales, coach horses
I'm shires and other breeds that will pay an
ly, be suited to their taste.
MS H. ]. FAUST.
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