Show FOR MANY MILES Smelter Kills Vegetation tion and 3 HORSES 4 SALT LAKE BY HERALD 4 r 9 bee I t the Church Farm Ten mote are too to is cover Thirty cows have been ed r o eating lead ant copper coated ar ivery tree west of as ar the Redwood road a South 9 meer a Murray hes anti bu buby by Almost v corn pah io patch and district has damaged arid Y totally b his the death Nearly SoO i m cs of us lan t Church Farm o I Iman man Iii charge has bec rend 1 ar sie of Iti sIts by a Herald reporter ve zone ed the 0 t ht a n t de in done anu the areo of ton of the salt Icy farmers th Sandy ant Murray is vu gb for the lit s u but an tc se h of the part of tim ley from and C is tt opinion of those who are the struggle And to lure a pers or the justis f their tight bo sm you vast and dead that not cam brIng no money thim bJ risi b u and burned to save tie stock L would otherwise eat Ut poison 1 Lanes of poplar brown potato patches this Z yield to time a rC r which they can not get a this year cucumber by the deadly smoke just as they wr beginning to bear and dead ar Feel Blight a person rides out V est Teim p street at far an Twelfth SouI ie will notice the brown blight on the trees that marks the upper of the zone of the sioto Ili if he goes on on to Eighth West b will he era within the city t n of the devastation by his new pest Veil points so in as the m Twelfth South and Ste hay bad their geranium beds by th smoke within the last two days P by far the heaviest so far of the Farn Since tLe smelter smoke began to et ettie tie down over the his he has hd had f or 1041 that u hov iad t nd he flow has n mui L Lhee hee much that he hs no for their Thc f acres of the finest grazing mad is the valley the farm I Ihas has had to and ii he is feeding the of stock on ba in tb barn and ori of the Patrons age he is beginning to turn away irI he ys that until something is d to of the opper ir lead laden smoke is lands 1 practically Blooded Stock is Lost Most of the lost stock ct When a for T THerald Herald ailed at the farm Mr Roan brought In frem a black t bred i explained though that it had hai attack of the nd to lustrate the hors to a cart began to it going a hundred is animal be to i ath am 1 before hundred yards 7 down in tho ar struggling lot i alt the f its and distorted ard tight The is has because it I a family p im i yesterday ne had tr 1 of a fins colt to S SL L Richards at South as t East and sent f him to tak it away W hei Mr ards arrived the elt a lint before he hair a with it it seized h s Ij cramps to bt Lh ehi 1 hie barns Mr Res tI mound o earth hlo oer horses hi led by t i i t iok burled in hi hf of cuis affected oti the ps son At th next r tO Mi Swartz t calves hav lest South f te Church ilie tier sid reporter tarm Robert Harmat Vet i South t s er found twelve of hia ei and u j i will necessary zo cut and a are re butch h M hai been 4 Oo bushels of r r w hardy a ine lr says that he lj tb well if ho is hIe to get p ire hi seu son He in a pc a i h is ti 1 in thuc 1 dj fe morning was b io ir Hamman fL thai the smoke means j mp crops and will ht in uh He that hr hud there ihn au brush h hid 1 yar yarto to make a horn for and now to look at Ih trees di crops that arc t he work of the in a few is not u pleasant to eom Smoke Beij Easily Traced Going v om the s sOh Oh t the beh was and it quick asserted its pr once in its strong of im 1 alid a sting of the eyes and throat Bet am hidden by snik was the of Mr Benjamin Harmin and a sorry An of apple and pi trees stood bars of tIe of rUit du to death by ie smoke plague which may 1 called not the black death but tI white death so Is its nork of it pasture u horse to Hamman as frisi t smoke It ud not t barns Passing I to ti Torja rv the wilk its banks one long line of burned lifelessness as if It were the of the ef summer season Jamss TayLor has on the bank ani himi losses are lie had Arm ot d on HAVOC WROUGHT MILES Continued from Page 1 field that elgy to the acre this year yielded only ten and one acre was so burned that It could not be at all Mr Taylor picked some leaves from one of the many dead shade trees around his house and upon looking t tit it with a microscope it was be covered with tiny specks of metal both lead and green copper The smoke about his farm and to Illustrate how the plague of his frIends took the reporter up on a haystack fluid there exposed a white th the smoke for fifteen minutes applied water and the black spots of smoke had gathered were burned through the cloth water had released the sulphuric acid Over the river in Cranger ward was the of Bishop Daniel MeRac says would not cover his loss in shade trees crops He said that about three ago he had gOne to tobed bed one night with his farm in best of condition and awoke next morning to lind that the smoke had gotten in its deadly work During the night a south wind had prevailed with witha a slight rain which Is the most likely to cause damage by the smoke He said that he not replace his shade trees many of which Were imported In ten yearn of hard work In a dry Irrigating dItch near lila farm the sand was seen to he ered green copper duSt Ing how thick the deposit from the smoke has become Down the Redwood to Murray these conditions were duplicated every whOre Hardly a tree was there but had Its quota or yellow burned a corn field that was not merely an acreage of dad stocks and all had come suddenly hen the crops were well on thO ma S Cause of the Trouble The south or the few weeks have no doubt caused of the destruction but at Highland smelter a much more important cause was found when Uie smelters were only the the Horn Silver Flagstaff there was no from nearby for they wOre all and the heavy near the smelters But ever since copper came with the establishment the Highland oy there has been an area of constant and ever widening complaint The owners wished to avoid trouble and at for the of the farm farmers ers who complaIned loudest But find lag this they add addan an extra fifty feet to their smoke staff This they did early in the year and it saved the nearby farms from the curo of the sulphur smoke But when the south winds canie the taller chimney Increase the smoke area till it Included the richest and best part f Salt Lake valley and this is why the damage ls so and why the I farmers of the whole valley are rote I so n the attempt t tm m same their homes anti lands What tho will be it is hard It is whether It s possible for the smelters to put In consumers and the smelters the expenditure of so that It is con conceded ceded to them down would be a misfortune to the city and state |