Show bently Jent ly abott itan L ace editor imd hj a talk with ith nn an intelligent and candid 51 who wits way near Il kleppner eppner tit the tinie time of the flood eng agrI in it shipping sheep from tho the ill titell town tow with refreshing candor tile ihu related how tens of th thousand of sheep pending shipment had been held on the watershed above heppner kleppner ll eppner until almost overy vestige of vegetation had disappeared with nothing not nothing hint to ch check belc therlow the flow of water the heavy rainstorm fell fall on in bare granite hill LIdes and gatli ering force and in every gulch swept downward ou oil its errand of d cal 1 h in mt pleasant sanpete county comity I 1 ay iy ii but a r jo urr a n C e of 0 f almost yearly disaster it also according ing ta to the suit salt lake papers was a cloudburst it seems nver U ver occurred to the thick chiloro of those stilt salt balce dailies that there chete exists an inseparable relation n between sheep grazing and flodde llo odi or af if they aver gave i ho subject tion there is too much c coword ardice ica avi aid poltroonery in their makeup make up to permit 1 them hera to tell the truth for fear of losito it a few sheep men inen recently trout fry were placed in me hie stream above nit pleasant Pl basant it is now stated that the fry WPM wore washed out of their canyon home by t aliat liat hood flood and destroyed all along alonar tile the mountains ast cast astor or of he 1110 ralley Talley sheep aln cp larave destroyed the vegetation and laid bare the gnoun tain duill sides until every rain causes an A hood flood big or little according to 0 o the size of the ali ower the farmers I 1 robbed of the water that should be conserved iatha hahs find and permitted to come down in ili such quantity us aa wil w ill them to sou trl and utilize it every E very year the lie farmers fa pay their thel r proportion of taxes to pay a fish fifth and game commissioner commission Rr a haud handsome some salary find and tile the of abla acetate L te hatchery 1 it is a well known that the ilee deer rl av dont Till oui of season will no not stu stay y on oil it a alleea ed col range el even veu grae grasshoppers shoppers refuse refuge to to stay in the sheep cursed mountains and the mt I 1 hus ius provi proved zot that t trout and cheop cannot bo be grown iu ill the same localities A prominent rean alt aalto in it recent letter to the ase pase P r 4 F h F I 1 LANCE lyince pencil guather on the subject of tile the preservation of forest reserves said that in his opinion the only conf I 1 reme remedial dial measure anat can be adopted to preserved preserve the foresta forests from de destruction tio by sheep is to put wool on the free list the 13 eni lemaa referred to 0 1 i iv bit an intelligent student of forest con editions dit ions and his words are quoted merely for the purpose vf ta showing tile the and widespread opposition eliat the fin F LANCE LA CB is ia creating to ato further cheep devastation of the water sheds 6 of utah ulith aud and the farmers far should 1 rally to tilt thu support of f the F it FF F F in ill its jill ilni nolt sl agle h liander ande d fight gainal ii nn fin industry that is daiv i ing tig t thousands hou sands of agri fro frodi m the state sate ant jeopardizing afie i ika lereita of 0 |