The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-29

neat sum of $4,000. The purchasers were
=; r. Jennings, of Salt Lake, and B. S
hiInDall, L: T. Kimball and F. r. Davis
OF Park City. The necessary papers O
transfer were duly executed and the pur
chasers will make arrangements at one,
mediate working.
GREssWELL FAyORs FREE WooI
Coiorado's State Veterinarian Give
Some Sound Reasons.
After mining and agricultural probably
more interest attaches in the west t.
the production of wool and mutton thar
any other industry. The question of free
Wi VIII pc one OF the leaders In the
coming campaign and both sides will la
oor hard to convince the people thai
lney are in the right. On several occa.
SONS The Herald has called attention Il
the iact that with the passage of the
S saiih Iiil me price OF domestic woods ad
Vanced while that of the foreign article
I Went UP. On account of certain beal
movements executed by eastern dealers
the Utah growers are not reaping the
selling their clips do so at an svera ee
Price OF Size. There are still between 200.
wv and 100000 pounds of unsold wool in tbs
65ettei.ofy ana many Of the holders ar.
adVance. As is the case with Utah tht
colorado Republicans are making WOO
s sne OF the me principal issues and on the
naIian and great authority, gave the
Rocky Mountain News the following in
| tereSting talk:
the end gain from the free wool stand
point, by reason of the Improvement in tht
breeding of sheep, which will be rendered
Colorado is credited with having 8,
cog, Gco sheep and an average wool croI
! or 1oO0O,OOO pounds said DIR. Gresswel
yesterday Wool is worth at present
prices here cents per pound. or ssOO,O
for the annual crop. Mutton sheep are
pound live weight, or 81 to s325 per head
worth only cents, Australian and other
selected foreign wool and the best grades
OF eastern wool are worth more than
grades of eastern sheep as mutton and all
good grades of foreign mutton will aver
age more than double the weight of west
ern muttons and at live weight the meat
is worth more.
There are no natural conditions in
Colorado today. why. this great variation
in values should exist. In fact, the re-
and the duty on foreign wool, which
gives protection to the product of scabby
sheep L claim are alone responsible for
the retardaton of development which ex-
lists here, and the removal, together with
the strict enforcement of the quarantine,
will rapidly tend to remedy this evil
admit this will be at the expense. for
a time. of many large owners of range
sheep but not at the expense of the small
owners of selected stock, or of those who,
on a large scale have in the. past been
proving the quality and quantity of wool
and mutton.
Whatever the natural conditions af-
New Mexico, Montana o{1Wyoming, there
is no doubt Of the fact mat in Colorado.
with its advanced facilities over other
ion for the higher grades of wool and
mutton producing sheep principally by
the irrigation Of land, and in my opinion
we hay have good reasons for welcoming
bound to force upon us an amelioration
our resources are so we'll adapted to
foster and derive benefit from.
1T is no eX3ggeration to assume that
at least 20 per cent, of the sheep of Colo
RADIO and 30 per cent. of the range herds
of the western country are affected by
ence in the skin of parasite insect, which
multiplies at an enormous rate and is
spread by contact or by sheep travelling
over the trail of infected sheep. The
effect is very prejudicial to the health
of the animal, causing the loss of flesh,
loss of power, of growth. less resisting
aG Seriously the oo botb IN
quality and quantity. It is especially pre-
judicial to the improved grades and so
much so that 1t has not been profitable
in the past to attempt improvements in
sheep culture where this disease is preva-
lent. AS it is now, the damage to Colorado
alone cannot be estimated at less than
81 900, 600 per year, a. direct loss from the
effects of scab, while the indirect loss is
much more
why do sheep men persist in running
scabby sheep then"'
Because Of the extraordinary cond-
tons of free and unlimited range, with
a change of fresh pasture every one or
two years. With a semi-wild and hardy
hro of
wool producing qualities, and with the
protection afforded by the duty on wool,
able. by shaving of all other kinds of
stock, to make a small profit. This, how
ever, can only be done at a great ex-
pense to the free lands of the country
and at a great hardship to the smaller
owners and to those who would conduct
the business on a more legitimate. plan.
Its limit is reached; however; when the
causes unbearable encroachment on the
rights of others.
1.-THE sheep business. as it has been and
Bile damage to the country, principally
in the destruction and contamination of
the free range and in the low quality of
the wool and mutton consequently pro-
duced. So long as these large herds can
travel through the country free from all
restriction as to disease and can make
the smallest croft, it is impossible 4t to
sheep products. 1t is no exaggeration to
state that, by reason of disease. and the
Inferior breeds resulting directly or in
directly from it, many Of the large herds
when travelling near or through settled
cost the country generally
and individually in particular g for every
Is cents profit made out of the business
1.-The profit is small at best in running
such stock, and the removal of the pro-
lection heretofore afforded by the duty
on foreign wool will, in my opinion, be
one of the best incentives toward a rem
edy for the great and growing evil. BY
affording protection to this business IN
the past, the. government has been IN
the position of encouraging the unproft-
able destruction of the free ranges, pro-
tecting the disease of scab and indirectly
arresting the development Of the indus
try at the hands of those who. under
protection of large herds of diseased
eff the sheep men will consider this
subject from a practical standpoint they
will find in the end that only few large
and wealthy sheep owners Will be IN
jured by free wool. while the small
owner, If he gives his attention to his
herds improves his breeds and banisheS |
the expensive disease of scab, which he
will now have fair chance TO do. the i
result will be that in a very few years |
Colorado will be producing a wool that |
eastern grades and that the wool indus |
try will become profitable. i
Awarded Grading Contracts.
Contracts for the grading of the site |
for the new plant of the Diamond Coke |
and Coal company, and the railroad |
switches from the main line of the Union !
near Diamondville. Wy, were let yes
Ierday at the Office of the company in /
his CITY. by the executive officers, to |
William Bird, the well known contractor.