Show OUR RANGE the census shows that sheep are driving cattle out W H parkinson was at the markham yesterday and in consultation with auditor schwanbeck mr parkinson had charge of that portion of the united states census appertaining to stock raising in western colorado utah and nevada reporting to J G mccoy at kan who has general charge of this portion of the census throughout the united states mr parkinson ha been encased in bakh these statistics since the middle of july he has had no assistants anil has been compelled to travel over the whole of the territory included in his district A news reporter asked for some information aa to the number and condition of herds of stock both in utah and colorado 1 I am not in a position cosi tion to give figures said mr parkinson naon 1 I cannot give you my statistics at the present time hence I 1 will he to give you tha number of cattle in western colorado or utah my work included alao sheep and horses in colorado but faw sheep are raised when a comparison is made with utah the herds of cattle were not as large as thoy wee grazing lands are becoming beco scarce and there ar but few good winter ranges in utah sheep are crowding out the cattle cattle will not live upon the sheep ranges sheep raising has proved to be more profitable there ra large extents of grazing land in utah that cannot bo used during the ummer because there is no water theae tracts ar located in the southern part in what is known as the desert in cintr these ranges can be used for sheep AS the abow supplies water and it never falls so deep that the sheep cannot feed 1 I think that utah is the greatest grea teat sheep country in the union my manner of obtaining statistics i waa this first of all 1 went to th county beat where tha list which was upon th assessors books was taken then by inquiry I 1 found the leading i stockmen stoc kmen from these by careful ini the percentage of stock not return I 1 ed to tha assessor was obtained from these sources the accounts were made up the method proved very satisfactory denver news |