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Show RANGE INDUSTRY IN UTAH. An Emery County Mao Ma a Faw Word, to say on th Poraecutlon of Pettier. Marion Muir Richardson of Fernery county, in an article in the American Agriculturist, says: "Few people who read of the gradual failure of the so-called so-called 'Tango industry" have the faintest faint-est idea of what it has como to mean for tho agricultural settlor. I do not believe that all of the men who have capital invested in stock companies are aware of the details of tho business. In tho old pioneer days young men took a few cattlo out into new regions and gradually grew rich through the froe pasture and the increase of thoir stock. The syndicate system has stopped all that. A new county, in advance of settlement, is stocked with cattle by rich men and held, as the old barons held their castles, by force and fraud. Ruffians are hired to intimidate small owners of herds or lonely settlers. Complaisant Com-plaisant officials ara found who ignore any law not favorable to stockmen, but who hound down any one suspected of liking fresh beef too well. A system of petty persecutions is practiced against sottlers, the full particulars of which would take volumes to describe. In the meantime, perhaps, the whole cattlo outlit does not own nor wish to own a single foot of ground. More frequently it has a ranch from which it devastates tho country. "Here in southern Utah tho riders are not personally as vicious as those in many other places. Yet the details of the cold-blooded injuries iullictod on struggling settlers by the "raugo industry" in-dustry" would make many farmer's blood boil. There are mauy books to tell of the ill deeds of the mormons, but the mormons of this region have never done us tha harm that the cattle owners have done. Nor would I venture, even now, to publish the truth if it were not for a strong probability that they can no longer hold back the tide of settlers coming into the valleys of the La Sal, attracted by the mildest winters to be found in the Rocky mountain region. |