The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-30

vicious system Of agriculture if the land
Is rendered poorer by, it. On the direct
farmer has had his farm for his life he
should be able TO hand il TO his children
as a Iar betrSr farm than when he had It.
An these regions, IN the ROCKY mountain
region. II Is especially incumbent upon US
20 treat the question of the natural pas
turage, the question of the forests and
the question of the use of the waters all
from the one StandpOint-the standpoint
OF the far-Seeing statesman. of the far
seeing citizen who wishes to preserve and
not TO exhaust the resources of the coun-
try. who wishes TO see these resources
come into the hands, not of a few men
or great wealth, last of all into the hands
of a few men who viii speculate with
them, but be distributed among many
men, each of whom intends 10 make his
home IN the land (Cheers-)
Stock Range of the Nation.
Now this whole arid and semi-arid re-
gtOn IS by nature the stock range of the
nation, and while have not, would not
have, any favOrites among our people,
do not know but that, by force of assoc
cation and habit. am almost more
closely akin to those who raise cattle and
stock on the great plains than toward
any others L was a COW man once my
And one of the questions which has
risen TO confront Us ) how this range
may be made to produce the greatest
NUMBER and best quality OF horses, cattle
ana Sheep, NOT only this year. not only
next year but for this and the next gem
Grafton. Now, the old system of grazing
the ranges so closely as to injure the
whole crop OF grass was a serious detri-
ment TO our people The ranges must be
treated as a great invested capital and
we should not Q1ssipate or partially de-
stroy that capital
That is something that we cannot as a
nation afford to do. We cannot afford
TO do il as a nation OF hOme-makers.
Wise men. d wise nation. cannot afford
TO do that, but maintains such capital
Unimpaired, and strives to increase it.
And more and more the ranch lands VIII
be used hereafter in conjunction with the
small lrrlgable areas which they enclose,
so that the industry can take on a still
more stable character than ever before.
1t is impossible permanently, although It
may be advisable for the time being. to
move stock in a body from summer to
winter ranges, across the country. In
the long run 1t will be possible only to
move the stock over the parts pertaining
TO their ranch home.
And our aim must be steadily to help
develop the settler, the man who lives on
the land, and IS growing up with it, and
raising his children to own il after him.
(Cheers-) More and more hereafter the
StOckOwnerS Will have the necessity
forced upon them of providing green sum
mer pasture within the limits of their
own ranches. And so the question of ir-
rigatiOn is wellnigh as important to
srOckmen as to the agriculturist
Must Preserve Forests.
And in the same way our mountain for
ests must be preserved from the harm
done by over grazing Let enough graz
ing be dOae-let all the grazing be done
in them that can be done without injury
to them, but do not let the mountain for
OVeT-graZe them IN a few years and then
go somewhere else, and leave a so much
diminished heritage for those who remain
permanently in the land prolonged ap-
plause)
I believe that already the movement
has begun which will make in the Ions