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Show SOUTHEASTERN UTAH HAS GREAT UNDEVELOPED RESOURCE 05 J6 i vtf cS6 wK HAS RANGE ENOUGH TO GRAZE ALL THE CATTLE IN UTAH BUNUI 01 HLKL10KDS ON S N JUAN C0UN1Y KANGP I Desert Supports Beef on Foot in Winter, Forest Is j Range in Summer ' IV southeastern I tah arbou En erv Craod and San J an count es where a good sbaro of the nhab tants ha e ne er heard the wh stlo of a locon otive there s range eno gli 0 graie all ot the 3S1 000 head of cat Ho n ttah at present and tho untoll v ealth which accrues from the feed nt, directly for the market is just begin n ng to be real ze 1 According to Professo 0 u T La oe III of the Utah g It ral 0 lege ex ens on staff who ha cut) returned tro attend n, tho farmers con ent on n Ilunt ngton En on ou t the at tie b s ness in th s t art of the state has mar elo s pos b 1 t es for dovelopn ent In the first place the pr ce of beef is bound to go up In 1907 there were 0I0O 000 cattle n the I n ted States and in 191o there were onlv 37 000 000 cattle a decrease of 14 oOO 000 in the period of eight ears t the same time the demand for meat must stead lly increase because of the grad al n e itable increase m the populat on In the second place there s n ore open range in southeastern Ltah than is any other part of the state bo extensive is this area that vinter feed mg a necessary practi e n nearly ev ery other sect ou of the west is almost unknown The cattle pasture on the forest reserves n the s mmer and in the fall are driven to the lesert coun try which as yet s unreserved terr tory The great d stance of most of the towns from the ra lroad some of them being as far as 100 miles makes it ex pedient and most prof table to drive the produee to market. The great quantities of hay and grain which this section produces bring at least twice as much when fed po beef cattle as when marketed outright It is a fact of no small consequence that San Juan and Emery counties turned out some of the .highest pr ced beef in the state last year There are some exceptionally well bred herds of beef cattle Pro fessor Caine says You can find herds of pure bred Hereford cows in eastern Utah from fifty to one hundred miles off the railroad which are as good as those found on the Herefordsh ce EaBtures of western England The lg mistake the cattlemen here are making each year is that they d s pose of the r steers as yearl ngs when they ought to feed them and make ready beef out of tbem Most of the steers wh ch left Utah last year were taken to Denver or other Eo nts in Colorado where thejr were ed and prepared for the market in the east The bankers n these parts are encouraging the farmers to feed their cattle for market by loan ng money to them to carry them over the winter in order that they may keep the cattle and purchase feed if nece sary to feed them One banker"h mself by buy ng the cat tie and fees both made a prof t of 2o per cent Professor Ca ne suggests that greater un forn ty n the s ze of the saleable stock as well as n the breed of the an male w 11 br ng much hi her pr ces Furthermo e the Utah men do not seek the n -irket enough b t allow buyers to on 0 to them and bii for thei stocl By deal ng d rectly w th the ma Pts thus utt ng out a nufriber of t e m d dlcmen t s ver reasonable to expect that h gher pr ces could be obta ned The farmers and cattlemen of south eastern T tah have a very valuable and pract cally nnd scovered resource n the prepar ng of beef for the markets d rect nstead ot d spos ng of the young 0 |