The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31

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| % per cent in value during the past
year. and even at this advance they
| are held at a premium. AS the lead
ing industry of this growing commu-
| nifty, the stock business aids all classes
| OF trade. As in the case of the eastern
! farmer, when the stock grower is pros
porous, all other classes share in the
benefits.
With over $4,000 head of cattle and
275, 900 head of sheep and goats, Uinta
! county is destined to lead in the stock
growing industry. Few cattle, but
many thousands of sheep, are con-
! trolled in this vicinity by residents of
Utah. The sheep interests are in a
sound and prosperous condition; no
branch of the livestock business is
more prosperous; and the rapidity
with which the county has become the
/ land of the golden fleece" is an open
secret of the cause of much of it's thrift.
Sheep receive a little more attention
| than cattle, but up to date small al
lowances of hay have been given herds.
The great extent of and wonderful
nutrition in our native ranges, togeth-
er with the favorable climate. have Civ
en- Uinta county a wide reputation as
! one of the leading stock-raising sec
tons Of the west, and which, by reason
of it's superior advantages, it will al
ways maintain. But in the future the
pasture of the hills and plains, and the
value and usefulness of both be en-
HANGED.
The animals raised on the mountain
ranges are unsurpassed in quality.
Long observation has shown beyond
question that different types are pro-
duced by the continued operation of
climatic influences. In low-lying coun-
tries, where the soil is wet, the atmo-
crlh hkasa "a
growth of vegetation rapid, coarse
breeds of large build are produced,
with loose, soft and fiabby muscles,
poor, fiat feet and weak lung power.
On the other hand, the opposite eli
matte conditions produce exactly the
opposite animals of compact build,
with fine, clean bones, muscles of iron,
that Withstand the greatest strain.
Such is the character of animals
raised in Uinta county. This section
has no superior as a grazing region.
The thousands of acres of grazing
lands are covered with nutritious
bunch, buffalo and other grasses, whose
fattening qualities are only second to
grain; and curing as they grow in an
atmosphere which scarcely admits of
decay, are better food in December
than in May. The large herds of
horses and cattle are seldom fed, and
sheep rarely, but roam in their fairness
the year around upon the carpets of
luxuriant bunch grass.
StOckmen in Cinta county are much
encouraged by the steady advance in
the price of their products. The winter
thus far has been attended with mild
weather; fortune has. smiled upon their
industry and the completion of another
six months will find stock upon a
thousand hills basking in the sunshine
of an early spring and fattening on the
fruitful yield of the rejuvenated earth.
Uintah County Wen Irrigated.
Irrigation is necessary to the sue
ceSsful cultivation of most of the val
leys, and we cannot call to mind any
of the populated valleys in the coun-
try in which canals and bitches do not
and from east to west. To the eastern
farmer the idea of irrigating is one
which strikes his mind with a certain
responsiveness, but the rancher of
Uinta county contemplates his crops
with a degree of absolute certainty
which the eastern farmer can never do.
He possesses the power of regulat-
ing the moisture to be conveyed to his
land found by experience that irriga- |
ton not only keeps the land up to its
fertility, but constantly i'm
proves it in quality.
Bridger Bench.
Fort Brioger of today lin southwest |
ern Wyoming) is only a relic of it's for |
mer greatness. Where once were sta
toned thousands of Uncle Sans SOL |
diers, are. now located prosperous !
ranchers- Bridger bench is a most de- |
Sirable place in that country. It's |
story is full of hope and the narrative |
is one of progress. During the past /