Show FOREST SERVICE RUINS INDUSTRY Startling Statement Made of Cattle and Sheep in Utai Utan RAISERS ARE IN I N REVOLT STEWART AND CALLISTER DE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE DESCRIBE SCRIBE CONDITIONS That the tho forest service is ruining the cattle and sheep industry in Utah and that the cattle and have be become become become come so disheartened that they are threatening to withdraw from the state is the startling declaration made by C CB CB CB B Stewart secretary of the Utah Wool I Growers association and Arthur H Callister secretary of the state board of sheep commissioners who to Salt Lake yesterday after a weeks tour of the southern portion of oS the state and northern Arizona Mr Stew Stewart Stewart Stewart art and Mr Callister left here the first of last lat week to confer with the sheep and ad cattle catte raisers and ad to investigate an unusually heavy grist of complaints complaint which have been coming in with wih marked frequency They found conditions throughout the state so far as the sheep and cattle catte in industry industry industry is concerned to be most serious Sheep and cattle catte are dying of thirst and starvation due to the cutting down of grazing gring privileges in the forest reserves and a point has been reached where the growers feel they have have encountered the thelmi limit and are beginning to talk of throwing up hi in I despair The trouble It i Is stated by Mr Stew Stewart Stewart Stewart art and Mr Callister is the wholesale reduction by the forestry bureau of the grazing privileges of the settlers settler who have utilized the lands in the southern souther part of the state for lor upwards of thirty p years and giving the privileges mostly to one large cattle catte company compan It I is charged that a large area of the forest reserve in Kane county has been fenced 1 off by the government for the use of oS oSone one cattle catte company which pays for the privilege of grazing gring head hed of oS cat cattle catte cattIe tIe tle te but which it i is charged actually has as a many as head This action on the part of oS the forestry bureau has resulted res led in forcing the other cattlemen those who have built bult their homes In that district and assisted in the opening up of oS the state off the reserves or cut cutting cutting cutting ting them down to a paltry 20 head hed of cattle catte Sheep Men Also Hit The as a result resul are practically practically entirely eliminated and in instances Instances Instances stances were cited of where it is necessary necessary necessary sary to sheep from to fifty fity miles mies for watering It I was stated to Mr Stewart and Mr lIr Callister that that because of the great geat distance to drive sheep to water and then back to the grazing lands that the sheep sheen were enable to stand the trip and that fully 25 2 per cent of the flocks had been killed kled as a a result resul A A D Finley a prominent sheep and cattle catte raiser Informed Mr Stewart that the southern people had run over rn 1000 head of sheep on the Buckskin reserve now known as the reserve but that they have been cut down to head notice of ot this thi intention on the part of the forestry service having recently been given Mr Finley called caled attention to the alleged special privilege enjoyed by one ODe cattle company In being per permitted permitted to graze 1500 head of cattle catte on that reserve while other raisers were limited to 20 head at the very most The forest service the cattle and sheep men claim clam is giving the cream crea of the theland theland theland land to the one outside concern and practically eliminating the Utah set settlers set tiers who occupied the reserves for years Speaking of oS forest reserves In he the southern part of the state and in north northern norh ern em Arizona Mr Stewart said that there was very little forestry to be seen FUl 90 per cent of the land included in for forest forest est eat reserves he said is practically with without without out a sUck stick of timber It I is comprised mainly of ot sagebrush and here and there therea a a lonesome cedar which would do good service serice for lor a fence post but nothing else Will Wil Make Petition Petton This barren barn land he pointed out has been included by the government In forest reserves when there is not the faintest of forest to be pre preserved preserved preserved served The result has been the arous arousing arousing ing lag of no small smal degree of dissatisfaction tion among the sheep and cattle men and they are going to make a deter determined determined determined mined effort to remedy conditions The plan Is to com lne in a petition petton to set aside these barren parts of pros pres present pre ent exit forest reserves and turn tur them over as grazing gring reserves in which an equal show should be given every sheep and cattle man mn of ot the state It I was an announced announced announced yesterday by Secretary Stew Stewart Stewart Stewart art that he would at once take the mat matter matter matter ter up with wih the chief of the forestry service He is satisfied that there is I something radically wrong in the pres present present ent eat system as he hl has convinced himself as a result resul of his recent trip that the cattle catte and sheep men of the state are not kicking simply because they want to say sy something He emphasizes the statement that conditions are of at a most alarming na nature nature nature ture As A a result of the constant re reduction reduction ducton of grazing forces by the fores forestry forestry forestry try department the have virtually been driven to the arid por portions portions portions and they Insist InIst that If the state experiences a dry summer every head he of cattle catte and sheep shelp in the southern souther part of Utah will wl be wiped out through thirst and starvation |