Show REPUBLICANS Wilt COOPERATE NARK HANNA UNDERSTANDS THE SITUATION PERFECTLY Same Scheme Was Worked In Colorado Colo-rado Last Year But it Injured the Silver Republicans Washington Office of The Herald 1415 G Street N W Washington Aug Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing Boss Hannas orders to his deputy in and for Utah Marshal Glen Miller there seems to be no doubt that the Utah gold Republicans are expected to cooperate with silver Republicans wherever permitted to do so by the latter Hannas only desire in the matter mat-ter is that the McKinley state convention conven-tion shall not declare for silver But this is solely for political consumption outside the state It is big gold dollars dol-lars to dryasdust doughnuts that Mil fer and Thomas will try to play in Utah the same sharp political trick undertaken un-dertaken by Senator Wolcott and his friends in Colorado last year There they endorsed silver Republican candidates candi-dates without the consent of those candidates The endorsement really operated to defeat the silver Republicans Republi-cans and thus deprive the gold men of a chance to report a reunited Republican Re-publican party in the mountain states which had become victorious The Republican Re-publican leaders here are hoping for better results this year in Utah They are however somewhat embarrassed by the fact that Senator Frank Cannon Can-non will be the choice of the silver Republicans for senator Hanna and his friends all eagerly desire the return re-turn of President George Q Cannon and all their political manipulations have that result in mind The official report of Thomas A Williams Wil-liams assistant agrostologist of the de parrent of agriculture on grasses and forage plants of the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain region just issued is a very interesting in-teresting document In this renort he gives an account of experiments made at the Utah station in the growing of fesque It has been grown with fine success as an element in permanent pastures and meadows and it is regarded re-garded as altogether likely that it can be so used in many portions of the Rocky Mountain region Many native forms of both sheep and red fesque occur in this region and although the cultivated varieties have been given little if any attention it is not unlikely that they could be used to advantage ad-vantage in reseeding the ranges particularly par-ticularly in the foothills and lower mountains The meadow fesque is only occasionally seen in cultivation usu ally in mixture with other grasses or with clover On rich loamy soils with abundant irrigation it seems to do quite well Favorable reports have been received from several points in central Colorado and central and southern south-ern Montana It is also doing well in northeastern Wyoming It is frequently met with along irrigation ditches and in public parks in the cities and towns often occurring in waste places as an escape and already well established In favorable situations It does not seem to thrive in soils containing much alkali al-kali The views of the assistant agrostolo gist on the subject of the improvement of the ranges are given at length He says one of the most Important factors fac-tors in improvement would be to establish estab-lish a system of control which would allow each rancher the exclusive right to graze his tock on a given piece of land for a long term of years As long as the open range is free to all ranch j men will continue to try to get their i share of it and there will be no possibility pos-sibility of any substantial Improvement Improve-ment Under the present conditions there is no incentive for a rancher to make any special efforts to improve the I range except la so much as It has to j j I I lo with the Immediate necessities of his stock He knows that if his stock oV < < s not eat the grass that of some I body else will and naturally he thinks i he might as well benefit by It as anyone i any-one In his efforts to get his share he j i contributes to the general destruction instead of trying to avert it If the rancher could secure a long lease to a portion of these pubUc lands it would than he to his Interest to Improve and maintain their productivity He could r then afford to build fences and adopt Other measures for the betterment at his holdings being sure that he and not someone else would get the benefit r of his endeavors HOSFORD I |