The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-03
HAVOC WROUGHT
FOR MANY MILES
Smelter Smoke Kills Vegeta-
ton and Animals.
HORSES DYING BY The SCORE
SALT LAKE VALLEY CONDITIONS
INVESTIGATED BY HERALD.

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Ten more are TOO sick 10 re-
cover.
/ Thirty COWS have been poisoned from
eating lead and copper coated grass.
1 Nearly every tree west OF state
/ street as far rs the Redwood road and
/ betW Twelfth South street and
Murray has beer blighted and burned
! by sulphur smoke.
Almost every corn patch potato
\ patch, grain crop, and orchard in thus
/ district has been damaged. and orLen
/ totally destroyed by chis new plague
! the white death
J Nearly 500 acres or grazing land AT
! the Church Farm. according 90 ,he
man in charge. has been rendered
! worthless
TlcSe are some OF the results FOUND
1 by a Herald reporter while illvesugat-
! ing The zone OF the smelter smoke Ia.
/ ascertain the actual 9mount Of Damage
! Gone anu The area OF DESTRUCTION
That the fight of the salt Lake Nai-
/ ley farmers against the smelters tx
! SANDY and Murray is no mere Etriz-
/ gle Tor the abatement OF q smoke uui-
! Sance. but an effort 10 save the cese-
/ tation OF the western part OF the VAL
I icy from complete and permanent de-
| struction s tie practically unanimous
| opinion Of those who are engaged I'M
/ the struggle. And to convince a person
! OF the Justice OF their sight they saoc.-
you vast lucern fields bieached white
Z and dead. Chat not only car bring IN
no money this year. bat must be cue
/ aud burned 20 save the stock who
/ would otherwise eat the poisoned
! grass. Lanes OF poplar trees burned
/ brown. potato patches thai ought Co
WELD 500 bushels 20 the acre, frum
/ which they can not get dozen tusn-
/ els this year. cucumber pa -ches caught
beginning 20 bear, and left dead and
! bleaChed-
Poplar Trees Feel Blight.
If a person rides OUT West Temple
/ street at far as Twelfth South be viii
I trees, that marks the upper boundary
/ OF the zone of the smelter smoke and
I IL he goes on west on Seventh SOUTH
4 10 Eighth West he viii find the farm
/ ers even within the city limits COM
planning Of the devastation wrought
/ by this new pest. Even points SO far
/ i'm as the ChristOpherson nurseries A.
| Twelfth South and state streets havii
! had their geranium beds killed by the
smoke within the last two days. But
! by far the heaviest loser so Tar -
Manager ReeS of the Church Farm
/ Since TIE smelter smoke began 10 set
s tie down over the valley this spring
4 ne has had forty~fve head Of noTses
! poisoned 50 badly that they had 10 b
/ killed and ne now has on hand zen
( head so much affected that he has
no hope for their recovery. The 500
acres Of the finest grazing land In the
I valley comprising the stock farm he
I has had 70 abandon entirely, and nov
/ he is feeding the remainder Of his
stock on hay In the barns and corrals
/ OF the place Patrons seeking pastur-
! age he is beginning TO turn away. and
-f,f- faer
( 10 stop the settling Of the copper and
/ lead laden smoke lis lands VIII be
I practically valueless.
Blooded Stock is Lost.
I Most Of the lost stock were bloodFG
animals. When a reporter Tor The
/ Herald called AT the farm yesterday
/ AIr. Rees brought in from corral
I handsome black Kentucky thorough
! bred. which was apparently sound. nc
I explained, though that IL had had q
I slight attack Of the pOisog. md TO IL
! lustrate the effect Eitched he horse
20 cart and began u drive III. After
going hundred yards - animal be-
gan 20 gasp for Teath. and before nc
had completed tCSO hundred yards ll
\ lay down in III. harness gasping and
struggling painfully fOF breath. Win
all the muscles of its neck and body
distorted and Drawn tight The animal
/ is worthless and has only been kep-
/ because il IS a family pei Mr. Rees
! said yesterday ne had feared Cor the
! safety OF q fine colt belonging to Nil
:. 1. Richards at Twelfth South and
Ninth East streets and had sent for
( him 10 take IL away. When NJ. Rich
I ards arrived the colt was delivered
/ but before he had gone half a olecK
I with l.. ii WIS seized with pains and
! cramps and had TO be killed Behind
/ his barns Mr. Rees showed ar immense
mound OF certn where The forty-f1uf
otEer horses killed by the smoke are
I buried. Ia his stock corral h. had .
( number Of COWS affected with The poi
/ son At the next ranch vest. belong
\ ing 10 Mr.. Swartz tbirty-iVe head %
/ calves have been lost
! South of the Church Fa~m The Her
I aid reporter stopped AT Tie farm %
4 Fourteenth South streets. Here re
I found twelve acres Of bleac1ed iuctrli9
wort hless and dead which it viii D.
: necessary 20 cut and burn. on a ,Fu
acre potato patch from Which ar
8 Hartman has been raising a. go $40
4 bushels of POTATOES per acre tne-e was
hardly a vine alive. ana air. hiarfHan
says that ne wiz do well II ne IS able
I TO get forty bushels peg acre tals sea
J son. He showed a dead Scranium plant
) I'm = POI HtiCh MS daughter had
! placed I'm The open air FOR q single
/ Mr. Hartman feels that the s-nciter
/ smoke means q total failure or ms
/ crops and VIII compel him 10 leave the
/ district He said that he had come
/ there when the distriC- was ali sage
I brush and he haG worked forty Yeats
/ to make q l0me for himself. and that
now 10 look at she dead trees and dead
/ crops that are the work 81 the smCie
/ in few weeks Is not measuring nor
7 pleasan. to contemplate.
Smoke Belt Easily Traced.
{ Going west from the Hartman farms
On Fourteenth South street The belt ~
| smoke was encountered and IL quickly
| asserted its presence in its strong odOr
/ OF sulphur ard arsenic and a singing
! Of the eyes and throat. Here. almost
/ hidden by smoke was TIE fam of Mrs.
/ Ben tamin Harman. and q sorry wreck
( il was. An orchard OF apple and pea-
/ trees stood bars Of leaves the burden
/ OF Ealf-ripened &TUit Weighing down
on dying branches Here, too was a
! lucerue Gcld burned TO death by Tie
/ smoke plague. which may we'll be
| called not the "biack death" but the
white death" so al1-inclusive is S m
/ its work OF destruction II a nearby
pasture was 2 horse belonging 10 Mrs
/ Harman which was poisoned from The
l smoke thar il could nos walk 10 tls7
/ barns.
Passing ON down TO the Jordan river
/ the willows along its banks presented
! one long line Of burned and yellow
J hfelessness as ii il were the middle or
/ winter instead OF the height OK The
| summer season. James Taylor has q
farm on the river hank and his losses
/ ara everything he had planted An o1-