The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-11
CATTLE AND SHEEP.
Further About the Stock Raising Industry in
Utah.


Utah.
To the Editor of THE HERALD:
In your issue of recent date there ap-
peared another article from Aquilla Nebe-
ker in answer 10 my father about the cat
tie and sheep business. As my father is in
Deep Creek and will probably never see
the said letter, cannot let it pass without
correcting some OF its mis-statements and
setting the public alright on my fathers
position in this matter Why Mr.. Nebeker
should seek to place my father in a false
light is mystery to me, unless, indeed, he
does 1t with view to making g record for
himself so as to help his reelection to the
legislature two years hence, or TO get some
other office. To quote him: HE mean
ing my father states that I try to make
him an enemy of the cattle and horse in
dustry when his letter to the Nelgs ought
to be fresh in his memory"
One would think from that that nv
father hsd become a sworn enemy 10 the
cattle industry and a lover of sheep, but
such is far from being the case, as ne does
not like sheep any more than MIR. Nebeller
does, but justice TO all is what be wants.
My father was of the opinion that the
law originally introduced would kill the
"
tore he took issue against il, believing that
an industry that is as thriving and well
adapted TO the country as sheep should re-
ceive fair dealing, even if the sheepmep do
cattlemen injustice and rob them of their
ranges. He thinks that the questi on can
| be settled in much better way-in a way
that would be just to all and would result
in encouraging the cattle industry without
hurting the sheep business. There cnn be
no doubt the territory is better off with the
sheep to utilize the products of the desert
AMI mountain tops if regulated in such a
way.
What my father says against the cattle.
man is only In condemnation for not I'M
proving his cattle with better blood, aud he
condemns The sheepman for what he has
done in this respect. 1t is plea for the
cattleman to do better, as he knows the
great benefit to accrue from such improve
ment. II is his interest in the welfare of
the cattle industry that he does this and
not his enmity, as the cowboy would have
you believe.
After striking the first blow Nebeker
complains because my father strikes back
| a little harder or in other words, he pleads
the baby act; that isn't true cowboy grit.
He says that my father writes in vim
diCtive exaggefation and says 1900 600 ar
invested in sheep, not g 100000, as shown
by the governors report" What was said
was this: Crane, the president of the
sheep association, values the money in
vested at $4,000, 600; the last years sales
! 81, 000 600. Mr.. PickRrd places the value at
81, COO, 000." So, if these figures are wrong
it is an ''exaggeration'' of Mr.. Crane and
MIR. Pckard. His statement that there is
not spot on the desert from Idaho to
Arizona and not place in that mountain
Gus country he describes that was not
occupied by cattle and horses before it was
occupied by sheep" only shows how his
zeal has led him into error all through this
controversy. 1 believe that Mr. Nebeker
doesn't mean to be unjust, but he has
talked against and fought sheepmen SO
long that he has gone sheep crazy. Every
body knows that scarcely any of the Ian I
where sheep winter is adapted to
cattle. Ii it is, why isn't it used, as
there is q great portion of it the
sheep do not touch, one sheep man telling
me that twice as many sheep could be
wintered here as at present. He knows,
or should know, that his range can be used
only by some nomadic animal, as the
sheep, and such life doesn't agree wiIu
cattle. And as to the mountains common
sense would teach anyone that sheep can
60 where cattle cannot. Besides, Utmost
OF the vast country east of here flies
bother cattle so they cannot stay.
am glad to see Mr. Nebeker gives nv
father credit for what he has done in the
interest of horses and cattle, and in re-
viylng the fair that lay dormant SO long
and l trust that all fairminoed men viii
understand his attitude On the question
II Mr.. Nebeker is anxious to debate the
question of cattle or sheep and their re-
spective rights on the range l will turn
him over to some sheep man, for instance
Charles Crane, who occupies the place he
tried 10 put my father in.
BY all means let there be some repnla
ton that will be just to both industries
either as proposed by my father or some
other good plan. Perhaps the suggestion
made by Mr.. Nebeker would do it. Yours
Fl. j. FAUST, JR.