Show THE PUBLIC PULSE Communications under this head are published pub-lished on all proper subjects at tho responsibility responsi-bility of the writer Range Industries To the Editor of THE HERALD Your issue of the Oth inst contains an epistlo from Dr Faust in which ho says that I have misquoted him and while digesting di-gesting the facts as set forth in my letter of the 27th ult he appears to go mad with acrimonious fury and writes in strains of vindictive exaggeration He implies that 9000000 are Invested in the sheep Industry indus-try not 2490SCG as shown in the governors govern-ors report Assuming that sheepmen are just as honorable and are as like Ito I-to give a full enumeration as cattle and horsemen and wo dont claim all the moral excellence in this respect re-spect the amounts quoted by myself would be relatively correct as showing the proportionate pro-portionate investments in these industries The report of the Utah board of equalization equaliza-tion for 1891 paces 23 and 24 shows 52907 490 worth of cattle assessed against 2831 5S5 worth of sheep assessed He interprets my desire to have the sheep Industry regulated regu-lated as a wish to drive it from I I the territory He explains my showing the evils of the sheep industry as characterizing all those who are engaged in that industry or at all friendly to it as outlaws He stales that I try to make him an enemy of the cattle and horse industry when his letter to the ticus ought to be fresh in his memory Ho then flies to the rescue of the sheep industry as zealously as a paid attorney or as we might expect a president of a sheepmens association to do Ho belittles the efforts of cattlemen implies that but few of them are honorable Ho writes as though we were crumbling because tho little sheep are manufacturing manufactur-ing wool from the ranges that we could not possibly occupy when he knows if his head is not very thictt and his memory I I very short that there is not a spot on the desert from Idaho to Arizona and not a j place in that mountainous country he describes de-scribes that was not occupied by cattle and horses before it was occupied by sheep and Ito ito i-to the extent that the sheep industry permits I per-mits is occupied by cattlo and horses at I I present Because the poor wandering bullock in bis vain endeavor to find a little feed that sheep have not trampled over and destroyed is not an animal that would decorate a butchers shop at show time Faust calls him a scrub and blames his owner for his deplorable condition Is it possible that Dr Faust has forgotten when that desert could furnish beef in midwinter that would Satisfy the taste of an epicure J When a modest cowman who is not the happy possessor of the earth takes issue with him he writes of the effusion as the big bellow of a little bull and borrows similes from sheepmen which even if true are not arguments to turn tho opinion of tho reading public against the nuuatry over which bo has the honor to havo been president Stockmen know that Dr Faust has shown commendable enterprise in i i working to start our Utah fair after it had been dormant for many years wo also know that he has earnestly advocated better bet-ter stock for Utah hence our regret in observing his manifest bias in favor of the industry which wo Know is diametrically opposed to ours unless somo regulation regula-tion prevails governing the range not devoid Cowmen are not devoid of sympathy and when we see that the mind of the es vicepresident of the National Cattlo and Horse association for Utah is so warped as to not give us evenhanded justice based on facts our feelings are akin to tho diarymans when his favorite cow spills tho milk after sho has plethorically filled the pail Our desire for regulation is no evidence of wanting to quarrel it is the very antipode of strife and while the herd owners could serenely go to the Worlds fair on ono train the animals themselves would serenely occupy their respective ranges This is the cattlemens hope In dividually tbe means to best bring about the result regard as Congress cedIng to the states and territories the public domain do-main within their respective borders restricting re-stricting If it desires the amount to which UtIca could be obtained in feesimple and the states and territories could lease to ap plicants under proper conditions among which could bo preference to settlers set-tlers of the towns to the domain adjacent lor a reasonable distance Another condi I e tion could be that the lease bo subject to entry for title in feesimple If deemed necessary other safe guards could be made to prevent the monopoly of range lands by speculators which the people might havo reason to fear By this arrangement many benefits would accrue among which aro IThe cattle horse and sheep industries in-dustries would be reduced to a legitimate basis by virtue of its having a permanent location as the farmer merchant and manufacturer now have 2lhe productiveness produc-tiveness of the range could be greatly in cressed thereby making it possible to support sup-port moro cattle horses and sheep 3 Rango differences would forever bo settled set-tled 4Farmers merchants and manu facturers would be assisted in carrying the burdens of government by tho amount that would come from leasing and the tax from improvements that would immediately follow fol-low such an arrangement All citizens ought to unite to bring about this result Respectfully AQUILA KEBEKEH LAKETOWX April 17 lSJ2 Shall We Have a Rustlers War To the Editor of THE HERALD It has becoino a piactice for sheep men to drive their herds from distant pointsand when they arrive at a resting place they eat up the crops break down the fences and befoul the water which tbe people afterwards af-terwards arc compelled to drink Yesterday Yester-day ono or two thousand sheep came to my place and literally beeoiged me No remonstrance re-monstrance availed anything and when I telephoned to Salt Lake for police intervention inter-vention it took too Jong to come to do any good Now we pay city county and territorial ter-ritorial taxes and ought to have protection What shall it be Must we use shotguns like the Wyoming rustlers or must we submit to have our water contaminated and pestilence bred cud our property destroyed de-stroyed without raising our hands H Sv QAII HOUSE WAKD Ajrll 221892 |