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Show LKEJJS. Paving no particular news from our quiet little town today, I thought perhaps per-haps a few words on the general condition con-dition of our country would not be out of place. There is an industry that I think could be encouraged in this country to the advantage of the majority of the people to a greater extent than it has been in the past; as in the past, owing to the policy pursued, it has been of no particular advantage except to a few. and that few the most wealthy of the community. The industry I allude to is stock raising. rais-ing. I consider stock raising should form part of a farmers work here. When I say a farmer, I mean it to imply im-ply not only a tiller of the soil but a raiser of cattle as well. I will not stop at this, but further say that every mechanic me-chanic and the people generally should have their own cows to furnish milk and be able to save their own calves to make beef and furnish stock for market. There is not a county in this state, I claim, better adapted to this industry, to have it in the hands of the entire people rich and poor alike, than Washington Wash-ington county. Here it could be united with all grades of industry. Let us look at our county as it is. Not one hundredth part of it is or ever can be utilized for farming; but we know that except when overdone this is a good stock country. Take our Virgin Vir-gin river range, all on the south and east side of the river, and stock have done well the entire year. Why is it that the people have not had the benefit of it'? Simply because they have not for the last twenty years fenced this land. What has been the result? Our range has grown the grass; the rich, the owners of largo herds of stock have, driven them on our public domain and harvested what honestly belongs to the masses of the people; What does this no fence business do? I claim that it gives all the public domain to the stock men, and gives him the stock to put on it. Look at its workings: can the widow as soon as her cow ceases to give milk all'ord to keep her up? Can she afford to keep her calf? No! Slie cannot can-not turn them out so she sells them, and often goes without milk because it is too costly to buy;, Thus the stock works into' the h'iiiids 'of d fcn I w'uiid call iitteitvi'jri to tile fact tbet thei'e is but little stock now iu this ecu city; and, I am informed, nearly all the cattle in our near north is sold and driven from the country. Let us put ourselves iii a shape to get the good of our county and fill it with the peoples cattle, and not leave our public domain a prey to surrounding counties. How often do sve hear: "Oh, these terrible stock men, they will if we fence turn their cattle in on us and eat us up." Let me give a little of my own ex- |