The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-25
INCREASE IS SHOWN
BY GRAZING REPORT
Annual Statement by Forester
Sherman Indicates Live
stock Business Prospers.
Special TO The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
OGDEN, Aug. 24.-Although there wa:
only a slight increase in the grazing area
of the Fourth forest district there has beer
an Increase of sol, IA head Of stock
grazed on the area during the last fisca
year. according to the annual Statistical
report. compiled by District Forester Il
A. Sherman. The report shows the live
stock business throughout the intermoun-
tain region To be III an exceedingly
healthful condition,
During the last fiscal year 1857 indi-
vldual permits were issued stockmen in
this district for the grazing Of cattle
and horses, On the thirtyfour national
forests in the district, total OF 345. 69S
cattle and 27,004 horses were grazed un-
der permit. This is an increase, Of 5lS
permits for owners and further in
crease OF 1886 head Of stock over ths
number grazed the preceding year
Individual sheepmen and stock compan-
les OF the district were issued total OF
2502 permits to Craze 3405. 400 head of
sheep. The number OF pcrm!ttees In
creased l13 over last year, and there Is
correspondngly increase OF 2G6, ISS head
in the number of sheep grazed: Inasmuch
as the total net area of the national
forests in the district during the past
year increased only 1926 acres, the in
crease In the number OF stock grazed is
exceedingly gratifying.
The increase In stock grazed is not
confined TO any one class of stock or to
any one state, but is generally distributed
The total number of cartle and horses be-
Ing grazed in Utah this year Is 1T1,S46, as
against 15S.225 last year, an increase OF
1880. This year 1.007. 101 sheep were
graZed on the national forests in Utah,
whereas last year. the total number
grazed on the forests OF this state was
991 ,045. showing an increase of 16, 056 over
last year
On the Ashley national forest OF Utah
only one Dermittee grazes more than 20)
head of cattle and horses. whereas 1874
permittees Craze less than forty-one head
each, Seven permittees on the Cache for
est have permits in excess of 200 head
while iA7 have permits of forty head or
of large cattle owners. eleven permittees
of that forest having permits in excess
OF 200 head, Yet even on the Dixie the
small stockmen are in the preponderancr.
24O permits being issued for forty head or
less. On the Fillmore forest 5l7 permit
tees fall in grade ]. between one and
forty head OF cattle while only two per-
mittees exceed 200 head
Eleven permittees on the Fish lake ma
tlonal forest run over 200 head of cattle
and horses each. while i2l permittees
craze forty head OF cattle each, The La
Sal national forest almost entirely devot-
ed 10 the grazing Of cattle and horses and
very remote from the market. is forest
of large owners. Nineteen owners have
permits In excess OF 200 head of cattI e
and horses While only seventy-two per-
or the 1872 permits issued for the graz
ing OF cattle and hosses on the Manti
national forest, only one is for number
in excess of zoo head Eleven hundred
and siXty-seven Of the Manti permlttees
Craze forty head or less each.