The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-19
|VHERE HUMANE
| OFFICER IS NEEDED
Horses Used on Stage Line Be-
tween Marysvale and Pan
guitch lll-Treated.
ANIMALS SUFFER WHILE
CARRYING THE MAILS
Ysrrible Condition of Those
Used on Pest Route in
Southern Utah.
,ecIal 10 The Tribune.

h rPANGUITCH, Dee, lS.-ExceptinG
utsh's Dixie the southern part of the
stato is terra incquita to the dwcllers
IN northern Utah. "Southern Utah -
the name inspires a vision of sun
rsrched deserts, hot sands, cacti, an6
l;zards living on their backs with feet
\ in the air for an instant s cooling. No
abrlpt attempt viii be made to dispel
fhe vision further than to say that l.
. 4 up south rather than tdown south. -
. About ) D. III. each day the Denver <
. Rio Grande train from Salt Lake City,
With all air of victory. pulls into Marys-
vale, 1877 miles south from Zion, and
1900 feet higher than the starting point
From the station one is hustled halt,
mile westward to the proud. hopefu.
little mining village. He then plunks
down four bits for n ton-cent lunch
and while waiting for the 'stage,
s,rolls uptown and looks into the sa
Icons. He will wonder if number OF
4 the men seen there have been sitting
4 there during ten weary years, waiting
hoping and predicting that next sea
Son the camp viii boom.
II the traveller has time. and the
curiosity. it viii pay him TO stroll down
toward the station The evening is bit.
ferly cold. Around the campfres arc
eroups OF men and ycuths, from the
/ limit OF Utah S settlements, north Of
l the Colorado river. 100 miles distant.
and from intermediate points, Some Of
. The men are thinlyclad, and their
pinchcd faces tell the plain story OF cH-
rosu-e and pTivation patiently borne.
/ With wagons heavily laden with mer-
ehnndise for the village stores. far to
1 fbe south. those men toll slowly home.
faeing the biting wind. often in blind
Ing storms, through mud and slush or
over frozen roads. those men from the
'"sunuv' southland traverse the marrow
rallevs. tcrtuous defles. and PASS over
divides 5000 10 90O0 feet above tho
sea. and where nj Christmas time. the
NOW is two 10 four feet deep And
, FOR the exposure and labor those freight
4 |crs receive fraction over ! cent per
thousand pounds for each mile. from
The Denver & Rio Grande terminus TO
their destinations!
The "stage' rolls un to the postof
/ fcs fbe traveller Chambers in and Is
"of" for southern Utah.
Work for the Humane Society.
The "stage'' is a four.sDring noun
-tain wagon, uiled nearly full of mail
bags The curtains are in strings, or
absent Two snail horses struggle for
ward with lead that should be drawn
/ by four. Tie 6rst seventeen miles to
Junction is over fairly good road
The next eight miles through Circle
valley is IN abomination. Two miles
further and horses are changed Twenty
l |Mes further. over an cXecrable can
yon road which annually holds n con
trcversv with the river for the right
/ Of wav. and the weary horses are ex
changed for other animals almost rs
/ tired Ten miles further and Panguitch
is reached.
No attention is paid bv mail CON
Tractor drivers or others TO the com
tort OF the horses. Uncleaned collars.
TOO large for the animals. are placed on
Ihe raw. unclcansed nccks Of the patient
outcs that. under whip or stick are conf
pelcd 20 suffer cNcruciating torture
while performing labor that is too eX
aeting for their size and condition. And
tner reward is scant ratjons Of hav, and
ny quarts Of oats each twentv-four
hours. And these wrctchcd conditions
/ arc often intensified by the brutality
Of drunken drivers. Thirtv-fve miles
sonth Of Marysvale, nj ? waYslde hos.
telry. in the CANYON. drivers and pas.
@neers stop for breakfast While they
gre warming themselves before an old
FASHIONED fireplace the stenming brutcs
|outside. without blankets are tied to "A
,nost-frcezing while waiting for dav,
liaht and tho return of the driver, who
generally consumes an hour at that par
ticular point.
AND such is sample of tho darker
s'ne OF human nature that, unchecked
w higher civilization. manifcsts itself
an me sparselv.settled localities of all
countries on the earth. but ought not
20 exist along tho principal highway
1'dl leads into q country where the
a;'mlNant faith excrts an influence that
~ dangerously close to the borderland
VI Intolerance and bigotry,