The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-11

clouS, but every owner on the adloin-
| the animals Will migrate to the single
ranch that has been cleared. and the
situation will be as bad as ever
In view OF the fact that a female coyote
| whelps some thing like ten pups twice a
,, year, and that each one OF these pups
| is capable of killing sheep when he is
three months old and that they reach
maturity carly. II may be realized that
| the coyote indeed is a fellow TO keep
your eye peeled for,
Up in ogden, at the sheep show. there
was on exhibition by a manufacturing
| firm jggeroo that was designed to keep
| coyotes away by soaring the daylights
OUT Of them. This ,contriyance was a
walls OF one hour. 1t was loaded with
twelve shells of black powder and set
on the outskirts Of the flock. Every
hour clock work arrangement set the
hammer down hard on one of the shells
and bing! off went the shell and away
scampered the coyote. At least that was
| chimes, set on quarter-of an hour time
would fire shot every fifteen minutes
Black powder was used because 1t
smeled like rea! shooting to the coyote
| II was said by one sheepman that,
while such a machine unquestlonably
would be great help to the sheepown-
| sity of hiring night shooters In lambing
season. he doubted very much il the
| coyote. would stay fooled permanently
He said thai, one time they, We're driy-
ing a tunnel somewhere In Colorado
and were shooting off dynamite TO beat
the band, but 1t didn't Keep all the
coyotes away from the lambing beds.
II believe" said prominent wool
grower, that the day is not far distant
when the solution OF the sheep Indus
ture now because of the coyotes. but 1t
| Is a fact that sheep unmolested by
herding will grow fat on one-tenth the
area OF land now required. AS it is now
| the sheep just scoots along, you might
say, and doesn't feed clean. II they are
in pasture the sheep will scatter out
will get away from them: But the
coyotes must be killed of before we can
do away with herders.'
Thomas w, Jones of Salt Lake,
member of the state board of sheep
commissioners, made, a little speech in
| Jones talked on tho eradication OF sea-
bes. The general conditions in the
state" said Mr.. Jones. are what / con
| were discovered early in the spring. We
nave been working on those cases and
have them practically cleaned up; One
| whole. | think We may say that we are
free from scab. In the northern part of
ties. some scab developed. and because
| the owners. lodged around, we were
| forced TO place some fiocbs under quar-
antine OF course, this worked some
hardship on the herds where there was
no scab. but it was necessary TO do 1t.
purpose is entirely too small. The wool
Industry in Utah ought to command a
| greater appropriation from the legisla
| turc, We have a number of capable in
| spectors. but these men. anxious and
willing they are, are often discour-
aged by lack of funds
II believe we should send representa-
| tives TO tho next legislature who will
help us in our industry. Certainly we are
entitled 10 it,
| black thorn in the side OF the woolmen's
| association that preceded the Utah State
| Woogrowers associa tion. The old or
Sanlzaiiou was simply the Utah Wool
growers association-wlthout the State"
! This long, black thorn was a Judgment
| against the members in that association
| OF $1,000. more less. This indebted
ness was acquired by reason OF fighting
law suits on behalf OF the industry and
dered In 1905. was for only $4,000. but
accrued interest has brought II up TO
! $1,000.
| The long black thorn has been with
! drawn for Monday arrangements were
| made by a committee. headed by Thomas
| w. Jones. one OF the members OF the
| sheep commission OF Utah. TO pay the
Judgment; The amount will be raised
| by contribution.
| The Judgment lay against about 400
| members ut least 200 OF whom were
| good for the amount. The holders OF
| the judgment were not In haste, there
! fore. to press collection for they knew