Morris tribune., 1897-03-31
HUNTING WILD HORSES.
Qneer Fun for Sportsmen in South
ern Utah.

ern Utah.
You may talk about hunting deer
and elk or mountain goats, but for
real sport horse hunting is destined
10 lay all such shooting in the shade
M the near future"
This remark was made by B. +.
Saunders, one Of the cattle kings Of
Utah. Mr.. Saunders each year sells
aabout z, 500 head Of cattle to Montana
stockmen. Continuing, he said;
In the Rocky mountain ranges
there are now roaming about fully
1000, 900 horses that may be said to
Belong to no one. The range horse
has become so worthless and such a
drug on the market that for several
sears past stockmen have not branded
ahe young horses growing up The
horses on the plains now are .about
ssne-half without brands, and are re-
lapsed into a perfectly wild state,
Down in the southern part of
Utah where my cattle range all the
wear boys are shooting these wild
horses whenever they get a chance.
This practice, of course, makes those
horses that escape wilder than ever,
and it is only now and then that a
hand of horses can be approached
hear enough to get shot at them.
There is no danger of anyone being
injured by this sport, as the horses
are a nuisance, and all cattlemen wish
to see them exterminated. Many cat
flemen themselves own bands of
horses that are running wild, and
when they go out to round up it is
not as of old to brand, but to shoot
them.
I'm the Rocky mountain ranges in
Montana, Utah, Nevada and else
where, it is now generally aellnowl-
edged that range horses are a public
nuisance, and they ought to be ex-
terminated They eat up the grass
needed for the cattle and they are as
hard on a range as sheep. The horses
eat grass right down to the roots, thus
IN dry weather completely destroying
The range they Craze over.
There was time not many years
ago when big band of horses was
considered very valuable property
and guarded carefully. A horse
thief was considered on the range one
degree worse than a murderer, and
was hanged sometimes on very slight
evidence.
"A man who would now 60 out on
the range and steal few bands of
horses would be allowed to ship them
away and be hailed as a public bene-
factor. Around his neck, instead Of
a rope, would be thrown wreaths of
flowers, and all men would praise him
rs a philanthropist of very high |
lssAzer
1t is fact that anyone who wished
ea,ld round up all the horses he could |
EEssl in almost any section of the
zEgsescky mountain range and no one
z-naild question his right. The day
81 the range horse is past, and it will |
srrveg come again. The time is com
~. i my mind, when the horse, like |
Err buffalo. will be in danger of be- |
.e--z:ng extinct. '''le'sses-s.-~~~s-~
Don you know that in recent
gzzars the railroads compel shipper |
- prepay freight on horses, which is |
te only sort Of live stock where such |
zle applies -. /
The sport Of hunting horses is |
+ &.mi~aged by stockmen and can be
E.a6sss] ed in with impunfty. It is des-
lss1Tso,!. think, to become very popu-
LIZ, is it is exciting and somewhat dan
Z z7--1s-
ff'IIc proposition of canning horse |
f.aeat for the European market was
82sx,srgllt at one time to be way of |
Htii7zing the range horse to advantage,
'aszs Kat is evidently failure. TWAS
lied Of for some time, but nothing
~s&re was heard of it. The only way
8 rz1 see of getting rid Of horses is to
IKE the sport of shooting them pop
sserr~ as ! believe it is destined to be-
Ep X
f'f course, a dead horse is no good,
A,a Thousands Of buffaloes were killed
Er The sport there was in hunting
4lsezn, so why not horses z" Butte
Miner
Scientific Burglary.
IA 40 electrical display at the Co
EzEalian exposition there was shown,
importation an appliance or machine