Show THE HORSE AWARD the kowens havi something to say editor of the ENQUIRER in an article published in the DAILY EsQuiR hR jan ath mr neilson appears to take very cicat exception to what we published in our article of dec auld say we tried to be as brief and as pointed in our article as w e in our judgement jud gement coald merely stating that we biad received the medal and diploma referred to above and if ft e did not mention the silver one it was it had been referred to so many times by him and others tha we did not think it necessary in regard to the diploma for three best draft colts we reiterate this w hile not eiven directly to davoust it is the best premium any breeding animal could leave we did not limit ourselves to aliis county but claimed it as proof of the best sire of draft stock in this territory for by a tree is ils fruit known so bv the produce is blooded stock best known mr thinks the mares should have some credit in this respect certainly they should for without the soil the tree could bear no fruit neither without the mares could we get colts and the better and richer the soil the better the fruit should be and so with the mares now for the kind of mares that were the dams of the colts exhibited by us we had two of them on the fairground the other having died before the colt was four months old and in comparison with the dams of the colts that were exhibited by mr neilson they were of a very inferior quality one of Neil sons mares wag imported being seven eighths the same blood as the horse and purchased at a price of three hundred and fifty dollars while alie other two were considered as good home breed mares as there were in this town spanish fork if not in aliis county and would weigh one hundred pounds at least more than either of the dams of the colts exhibited by us hence we find mr nielson with alie best round to work upon but the tree was deficient now mr nielson accuses ns of being ambiguous trying to mislead in this lie judges ns by his manner of doing business for we have only to refer to liis article of the inet in proof of aliis we will refer to mr wells letter wherein he reproduced only the part that suits him wo will here reproduce mr wells letter in full SALT LAKE city nov rasmus nielson esq spanish fork utah DEAR SIR the premium list as printed only contemplated one prize to best stallion 4 years old and upward in class A division 4 the awarding committee however found the competition so close that they decided to give three prizes as follows aalph H smith Log angoM medal badmus nielson spanish fork diploma vt P bowen bros spanish fork silver medal M WELLS secretary it will be seen by the above that the competition was close and it does not say which is first second or nielson presumes liis horse to be second but let that be as it will we feel very proud of our medal the silver one mind you as ve got it in competition with the best borso in the world according to the way mr nielson puts it with the competition BO close between the horses they did not know which one to rive the prize to now in further proof of mr Ni elsons misleading will make one more reference namely his article in the utah agriculturist for december where he lias nearly a column of meaningless luini bere the certificate of pedigree of the livorse he is trying to describe does not contain one half of the numbers now if mr nielson biad been satis fi edwith making lis first explanation we would not have paid any attention to what he daiil but as he has persisted in bringing before the that which I 1 is neither correct instructive nor profitable fi but is more in the nature of slang and reflections on our characters than what is appropriate to a gentle man we deem it our duty to refute his assertion oh what horse was the sire of alie three best colts at the fair mr bowens livorse davoust WM P BRO SPANISH FORK jan |