Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-21
A RETROSPECT.


Correspondence OF tho DEsruLr Srws J.
Now that the Territorial legislator,
have gone home, and the breeze that
was raised ON account OF the sheep bill
has passed by, we want to look over the
battle field calmly, see who ARE III,
kickcrs, and what cause there Ia fol
kicking. The horse men kick at the
sheep men; let us inquire what they
are doing for the country. There are
now about Que hundred thousand
horses In Utah. Finy thousand will do
the work; fify thousand are eating the
pasturage that the dairy COW ought
to eat, OF the grass that should be man
ufactured into wool by the sheep. How
much money did they bring Into the
country last Year. will venture TO say
not 80, 900. Their value IL decreasing
any day--too small IL the verdict, while
they themselves are ever ending, ana
ifI had to stock pony express across
the continent the Utah horse would
again he wantod. But those times
have passed. Step to your doois aud
watch the electric ears pass aud you
will see that his occupation Ia gone
win Il psy to raise horses In Uiah7
Yes, two kluds.-the driver and the
draft horse; but you must lake care IN
breeding and feeding.
The cat,lemon kick at the sheep men.
What are they doingg What money
have they brought into the country Ia
the last year? Not $4,000, | will say
without lear OF contradiction. One of
the reasops Il that IN mos; cases they
produce "ecfub,." A cies In Uoini. A
Utah man took a tfAinload Of steers TO
Chicago, and they net,ed him $40.
An Idaho man cold three hundreti
netting $40. the Utah steer dressinr
six hundred, the, Idaho one thousand;
aud vet the COW orator from Benr Lake
would lcglslate all the sheep out Of the
couptryl
The farmers kick. Why? The
sheep herds have 10 pass from east 10
MtNl lNNtt lfNNf w WV N'AHss
long are they pafsing2 Lot ua see. In
some places II IA only i've miles
through; the longest Il from Nephl
through Sanpete-about one righVs
ston on the way.
What do the farmers do for the
country? II Ia not what they do. but
what they do not do. ! suppose they
would produce the half million dollars'
worth Of pork that W. now import 60
Into the grocery store and look on the
sholf-corn, peas, pieklcp, anu nuts Of
all kinds from everywhere but home.
a lazicr lot canuOi he found than the
Utah farmers. Finy thousand dollars
are annually sen, east for chickens,
ducks aud geese, u couple Of hundred
thousand tor butter and cheese. There
Il u fair crop Of eggs, but u u depended
ON the farmer TO help 20 produce them,
by holding hie breath while his hen
laid them, there would only be- half a
crop. | saw yesterday saurcToutby
the barrel from the cnst. shame On
the farmefl Triple by the hundredsof
kegs, preserves by the million. 10 IL
10 be wondered that we have no money
when we send II out for everything we
eat and wear?
wow ltl uN lu1h ~ tut rhttp ihNbs
What have they done? II will be- re-
membered by many that In early days
they were exempt from taxation, NJ
as 70 encourage the industry. We can
all remember that when n flock OF
sheep sheared four pounds II was called
good one. Fifteen years ago, " n
sheep, when killed, averaged fofty.hvc
pounds II was called fat one. Now
they shear from seven TO ten pounds
by the flock; dressed sixty pounds.
The sheep men bring Into Utah an-
nually about three millions. This IL
sent among the farmers, butchers, and
store keepers. They have Improved
their flock by importing good sheep;
not 10 with most Of the stock.
/ cannot see why all should kick at the
little sheep which go out on the
desert In tho winter, pick up the sage,
the greasewood, the dry grass aud the
PUSHES, anu manufacture wool out Of
II? Go east In the spring, clint the
mountains up to timber, climb among
the rocks, get the spears OF grass aud
continue the growth VI the wool. The
shrewd cattlemen and horsemen are
now your sheepmen.
Now, | want 10 say TO the stoekmen,
"rhe Legislators have gone home, the
bill passed II nothing but blot on the
statute book. Let the sheepmen, the
horscmen and the cattlemen bee friend.
ly and respect each others rights.
would recommend that Ia each county
they hold conventions aud parcel out
the public domains, US that IL, OF would
be. the only law that can be enncted-
"Do unto Others as you would be done
by.n Quit strife and contention ana
Fair together ON one train. In my
products. II. J. FAUST.
SALT LAKE Cry, March Is, 1892.