Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-18
DEsEREr EVENING NEWS FRIDAY JANUARY is 1907
thing: and IL we don't take the thing
IN our own hands they will take ~.
SUGGESTS Investigations

TO a committee from the senate ana
Congress Of the United States, askrl.
that committee to come out here mex,
summer, aud let the Woolgrowers as
ISOLATION OF Wyoming and Idaho aud
Montana and the other states take
charge of them while IN their jurisdic
ton, and instead of wlning ana diniuy
them, get them In your buckboards ana
camp wagons and take them out ON the
range. (Anplause,) Let them then sec
conditions; and ~ there are any storms
on hand or little hardships, let them
get tho benefit of II. (Applause) II YOU
can have the team hauling the grub
wagon run nway--say FOR a day or more
so that they will have to go without
anything to eat for day or two, like
every sheep man has had to do, they
VIII begin TO realize the value of this
wonderful land that they are trying to
protect for tho small horpeseekcr 1
Ike that message of Mondelrs. He says
don't restrict our range. They say tho
government will do this and the gov
eminent Will do that one of the gov
ernment's representatives yesterday
reading paper al Rock Springs. mad
Vertcntly said that the bureau paid the
pllls. Now. the bureau never paid any
bllls. The people gave the money. and
the money came from the people. And
If this convention speaks In no uncer-
tain tones. what they do will be heard
even In Washington. We have a right
to ask certain things. and we should
ask without fear or favor, because the
men who are there are men whom we
have sent there and they are sent there
10 do the bidding OF the people. The
people themselves are supreme, and all
they have to do is To come out and de-
clare themselves, and there Is no one in
the United States big enough 10 stand
against us. / think 1t to be the most
unwise thing that could be done to take
and put the entire public range into a
forest reserve and handle 1t as forest
reserves are handled. II would mean IN
Wyoming alone g reduction of over so
per cent OF the stock in that state. 1t
would mean setting back or the de-
velopment OF that state for 20 years
Even more, II would mean the leVeline
of lot OF little towns that have sprung
up all over 1t depending upon the stock
industry and the stock industry alone
And If l0000.000 acres can only carry
less than 400 900 sheep two months, you
can figure up how many sheep Wyom-
ing could carry. And as l said, It
would be a reduction Of over so per cent.
ON RANGE SITUATION.
81 know they will tell me in forest
reserves there is a lot of very heavy
forest areas and there are lots OF rocks
and go forth ! will admit that. but |
am counting in the National park.
which is a large part of Wyoming. OF
the 64,009.000 l am counting IN the
right of way of the Union Pacific rail-
road That Is nearly 5000 acres. ]
am counting in the towns aud rivers
and the entire area of the state, so
they cannot come back and say we
are not fair, because we don't take
81 L.. tatFzs
tmbered areas The forest reserves
In this. where there are torested
areas, ! believe are right; but they
should be SO handled as to give the
freest use to the stockmen u the
state in which thoss areas are situat-
ed. If that is done. there would be
but little complaint But when TO-
100000 acres can only range 100000
head of sheep for two months, which
makes nearly 1875 acres Of land per
sheep year, but II you in Utah (and
| am not acquainted with the condi-
tons here) cut down to 1875 acres per
sheep a year, YOU can begin to realize
where you stand.
ON CAR SHORTAGE.
Another subject to come UP will be
ar shortage, don't know whether
there are any railroad men here oil
not. The audience is so large l cam
see all of you. If there are 1 am glac
of II. In looking up this subject %
car shortaEe-now | am not going I,
abuse anybody. l want you TO dis
tinctly understand that am finding
fault with the railroads. and the per-
sonality of the men operating them
are two different things.
l find in looking up this subject that
there was in 1896. 36,746 locomotives
in the United States. and in 1904. the
last year / could get exact figures for
there were 1856, or an increase In
six years of 80 per cent Of power. In
the same years there Were 1,2S4,S07
freight cars in 1898. and in 1904. L.
72S,sO3, or an increase of "a per cent,
Now, an increase in six years, remem-
Der. gentlemen of 80 per cent in pow
er and 81 per cent in freight cars.
And that does not include all of the
increase. As you know, the engines
are being built larger and heavier each
year. so much so that now some of the
roads are hauling such long trains
that passenger trains have to take
sidings TO let the freight trains pass.
And in the same time. there was an
increase of railroad mileage of 1s per
cent Now, remember an increase III
power and cars OF nearly 81 per cent,
and an increase of mileage of 3 per
cent so that it would be about two
and half times in equipment over
mileage.
Now 1t looks, if the cars and power
were enough in 1898. and they have
increased two and one-half times fast
or than the mileage, as If there ought
TO be cars and power enough now to
do the business; but that there IL not,
stockmen are painfully aware, es-
pecially you of the farther west.
I'm one part of Wyoming we have
had scarcely any trouble, even this
year. ! think VIC will have to look
for II In some other place than in
the equipment. and | believe Il Is
found in the unprecedented increase
OF business that has come to the
road.
SERVICE is wRETCHED.
Another trouble the roads have
some of them at least--is thew want
tonnage. Now. what the stockman
wants Is not tonnage but 'speedage.'
(Applause). We are not complaining 10
the railroad mt prices. We are not
complaining of equipment so much as
we are of service. | was talking with
one OF the large sheepmen in the west
ern part OF Wyoming today. and he
said that on one shipment he made of
1000 head, he lost from 70 cents 10 "A
dollar a head on account of poor SER
vice. Now, gentlemen OF the railroads.
what we want you 10 do after you load
us up, Is 10 get us somewhere-but
not on a siding. daughter and APP
plause). Get us TO MARKET Get us 10
market before the sheep have grown so
old that the butchers don't want them.
Gaughter). We believe you can do II,
ana we believe you will do Il: but the
TNat.. OIL