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Show IN KANE COUNTY. A Cennty Almost Wh.lly Dsveted ts Stock Haislug. Joel II. Johnson, one of the Johnson Bros., who are counted among the largest larg-est sheep owners in Hane county, is spending a few day s vacation In the city. Kane county is devoted almost entirely to stock raising, scarce enough grain or Tegotables beiug raised for borne consumption, con-sumption, but as a sheep country, it is unsurpassed by any in the territory, terri-tory, and it is alio fairly good for cattle, or was bufore the sheep had gained the supremacy. su-premacy. This year the rains have been so unusually heavy that the feed on the ranges is better than it has ever been. Stock is all looking as line as could be desired. The spriug sheep shearing has all boeu dono and the clip is the best obtained ia a number num-ber of years. All of tbe sheep in that county are sheared twice a vear, the Inst time in September. Septem-ber. Mr. Johnson thought the clip in his county this spring, would exceed 200,000, all of which is shipped to Nephi and is sold through the wool growers' association, who handle han-dle it on commistion. This way of disposing dis-posing of their clip has been much more satisfactory than selling it directly to representatives representa-tives of eastern tirmn. The average price obtained up to this time has been seventeen cents per pound, but some nrrf holding fori still higher figures. Kane county shipped 8000 head of beef cattle last year and 10,000 bead of sleep, the latter bringing average of f 3.75 a head. Johnson Kros. own 8000 head of sheep, the largest herd in the country. These are all fed on the home range in tbe summer but are taken into Arizona to winter. Scarcely any rain falls in summer on the Arizona range, so that it can not be fed off, but when tbe first fall of snow comes it affords af-fords the best of grazing. Mr. Johnson said be had known sheep to live two months on on those ranges without a drop of water, only such little as the could obtain from eating snow. Tbe reporter took occasion to ask Mr. Tohnson what tbe feeling was in bis county on tbe political situation. The reply was that there atad never boen more than two liberal Totes cast in the whole county, but if it came to party division it would be to Mie Interest of nearly every man there ,o be a republican. The sheep raisers Wanted protection on their wool. |
