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Show COSTS J VALUABLE ASSETJN UTAH Herds Now Maintained in Ree Hive Stale Estimated to Be Worth SHo,nOO. CLIP VILLUS SNUG SUM San Juan County Has About 20,000, Hall of State's Goat Population. Goat raiinc in I'tali it growm to bt one of thf important (adttftriN o. the tat There nr :..iro.mMt.-ly xi head of this Ftoi-fc m ' tali, rortfc 1160,000, with n sprioil P ' mated to be worth . v tributinc in larco dearer to auatenance of a lartro number ot people u soutn-rrn soutn-rrn Ltsh who are engaged in raising Lba animals. , , I j stated a few days ago bv the i fLii.tv Independent that '1300 h, id :' fonts were sheared t w Un laki pn, with no from storm 01 cold ' ' , Thif- brief tatoment. orrasioned ?ome urpriae ffOBI the fart that it was thought to have possibly overeetimated the u umber of goats, the idea generally trailing that 18,000 would he more than the entire goat popttJatioa of I tab Therefore an investigation was ade bv The Tribune; and this Inquiry -it only eetobliabed acctxraay on, the pari Of tbe Kane Count Independent, bat brengbt oul some additional facts if ar DJ no mean- included in the neral information poeseaaed by the public. "Center of Population." It was found that in Utah there are pproxiniately 40,000 goats, all told, i Baa Juan eoiinty the grenteei uam- ber found, the. total is estimated at ' 1,000, or half of the state 'l goat population. pop-ulation. Kaue eountv come next with shout I.")' ii i while Garfield county con. tributes 4000 to the aggregate About 1000 mote are to he found in "tber sections of the tate. placing the estimate esti-mate at the lowest point. Perhaps a fair ayerage of the clip for this' spring will place the aggregate at, 280,000 pounds, which will bring to the owners about 109,000, even with t tc price down to the low notch. Where goats are raised in large number?, num-ber?, there is quite au industry in goats milk cheese, the cheese made from the milk of goats being highly esteemed as an article of food. In the rail majority of cases the cheese is made only for home consumption, very little of it finding its way to anv of the markets of L'tah or elsewhere However, thia item is a valuable one in considering the goat industrv and it profit to the commonwealth, for the reason that it contributes largely to the food of goatherds and their lam. 1 1 aa Id those regions, too, the milk il ujed as n substitute for the usual i iWS 1 milk, which is a considerable item in the expense oi family maintenance. main-tenance. Clip Is Valuable. Of the goat clip the chief product i- mohair ClOth, but it is made to entor nsirely into wool fabrics and other clothes of various sorts. What was most surprising in the investigation wa development of the fact that the goat industry of Utah had attained a scale so extensive as that shown. A few years ago there wac a movement started to develop thiv industrv, aud several Mnckmco engaged in the business of importing mod breeds of goats for distribution in T'tah. That the result has been gratifying from an economical point of view, is appnrent from the figures presented herein. Before the movement move-ment indicated was started about five ear ago, there were comparatively I rent goats in Utah, but at the present time the industrv hu. crown f pro portions that bring it into a place oi prominence in the state's development. hv reason of the fact that the goat i; ril'.e to subsist nlmost without care, and upon feed that would not suffice to keep life in any other domestic animal, it i. profitable to ra'- It is particularly valuable to the counties nan sd herein, where it i mst extensively exten-sively raised. |