Show I fiRE CHIEF fROM BL BLUE CRASS STATE m TELLS US OF HORSES HE NE HAS fOUND IN UT An I As a result of oC a six week six week hunt for horseflesh six raw recruits were added to the thc propelling power pot of Salt Lake City's bi big fire vehicles yesterday yester Yester- da day morning The horses borsEs though unkempt unkempt un un- kempt and rough looking arc are said to represent tho the pick of Utah's horseflesh Chief W. W II Glore Gloro whoso whose knowledge c cof of what's what in is responsible responsible sible for the tine selections has inns spent six six I weeks off T and on travel traveling ins through the tho I agricultural sections looking for the five fie necessary additions to the equine family fam fann- I ily 11 at tIle the fire station Of the class of horse Utah produces Chief Glore said this morning Utah has some Iome mJ magnificent horses ho especially in Cache va valley II eJ But people have o not the inclination to raise and develop a n di distinct class of horse after after af af- ter the thc mann manner r in which it i is is do done no in iii tho the ea cast t. t where the thoroughbreds arc are produced In Jn all nIl my mJ search I saw but hut butone butone I IODe one ODe thoroughbred h re t But Dut But for lire fire fighting tho the thorough thoroughbred hired bred i is is not the tho animal we are arc looking lookin for Q a 0 want horses hors's with massive nl al I though h well proportioned bodies bodie nil And the tho limbs are the all essential feature Too many splendidly built horses are aro I 1 allowed to develop a abnormalities o of limb and hoof which in a great degree prevent the tho animal from displaying tho the best there thero is in him Cut by Wires II I I noticed hundreds of horses borses running run rua fling ning loose in the tho fields with legs badly scarred by jy barb wires and I hold hoM thins thia to be ono one of the tho chief evils in the raising rais rais' raisin raising in ing ing of horses A good horse must bewell bo be bowell well wen guarded lie guarded he should be kept and not allowed to graze raze too much Out here hero in the tho west we know nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing but tho the commercial spirit in raisin raising our hor horse c. c He Ho is to us so much power und and the sooner we wo can get et all aU the tho work workout workout workout out of him that ho bo is capable of the better is the policy to which we ve wrongly wrongly wrong wrong- ly Jy cling In Cache valley the blue grass grass grass' section of Utah I saw sonic some of oC the tho finest specimens of all around horses in tine the world being worked in the plough and the tho thresher when not half matured in in build These horses some o of them were Inot I 1 not more than 2 years old and were doing doing do do- ing ins the tho work of a small motor Naturally Naturally Naturally ally with such treatment tho the horse gives out put before his time becomes tune becomes crooked in limb and unsound in body II To To fully develop a horse he should bo be considered a n colt until past his fourth year then work of a lighter nature should be imposed He is not mature until about tho the sixth or seventh I year I Training tho the Rookies Tho The six horses brought into the fire I department yesterday are a II process of cleaning and und training Their rough and shaggy coats are aro being trimmed and their hoofs hoofs will be shaved I into proper shape After they have ha been ben thoroughly groomed the tho training I will begin This usually from ten to thirty days das before the tho horse borse is I in iu a condition to be trusted in case of of fire Ono One of the chief requisites in a afire afire fire firc horse is a level head This has been remembered in selecting the new ma ma- Asked as to the general run of prices on horseflesh in in this state Chief Glore Glare stated that with tho 1500 appropriation appropriation tion with which he was authorized to I purchase five fi horses he was able to get six of the best and to save 83 a little II I money mone at that 1 |