Show cattle drives athas it has been customary in this county as often as once or twice each year and also in bome come other othir portions of the territory for some of the people to turn out and drive all the stock that could be found on the range within certain limits to some place where it could be corralled in order to enable some individuals who had hores horses or cattle that were running at large and which they could not readily find to get them with less trouble than to hunt them up on the wide extending a plains on which they had been turned to graze this wholesale driving business has unquestionably tion ably in many instances been attended with good results to some but it certainly has not been bei productive of much good f feeling eeling on the part of those who by such operations have had their stock unnecessarily and against their will driven from its accustomed range and turned out twenty or thirty miles more or less from the place where it had been running and driven from after the corralling operation had been consummated to go or stray off if the owner was not noe on hand to see af after ter it where he might not soon and perhaps never find it a again aln ain elb vit it has also been alleged t by many who have been opposed to suc such h operations that the gathering up of such vast herds of cattle and bands of horses and mules as are generally grazing r on the range range 0 west of jordan in great salt la lake ke county affords excellent opportunities for tor a certain class of stock dealers to become seized of oi animals without havivi having t to pay for them in gold or silver or giving in exchange any valuable consideration one thing is certain whether that kind of dealers obtain either cattle mules or horses on such occasions not their own or whether they do not every lazy worthless scamp within hearing of a 11 drive drivel is always in attendance and unquestionably finds out octif if he does not obtain any at the time who has animals to dispose of on such terms as will suit him nota year has passed since these mountain valleys have been inhabited by the whites without more or less of the graces who have been passing a across the continent or have fled from justice in the states or california remaining 0 somewhere in the territory during the winter season and before leaving 0 in the spring such have invariably helped themselves to an outfit generally at the expense of the honest citizens and those who have been thus tithed and who have in addition contributed largely not bot willingly a to the support of domestic thieves which though 0 they have not been very numerous are exceedingly fond of good animals and fat beef are very sensitive when mention is made of stock gathering or stock daiv driving in 0 movements and strongly a protest against 0 such operations these remarks have been suggested by an effort ah elhat a 1 t has recently been made to get up en one 0 ot gmo gao those 1 se stock gathering 0 concerns in this county which 1 ch was interdicted interdict ed by the county officers who were applied to by many citizens w who 0 were oppose opposed ato to such things particularly at this time when thi ihl thieving Ih ieving evin eViD is the order of the daysi day with the class of people to which reference has bas beeady be been baen eade made and which at this time ia is very numerous nu merod tavin bavin having been on the increase ever since protection has been extended to them by the federal judiciary of the territory to punish them according to law for offen ces against 1 I such circumstances is somewhat difficult and no measures should be entered into that anvill iu have a tendency to further their nefarious designs against the property of the citizens and ana certainly nothing could be more favorable to such fellows than to have all the stock in the country gathered up so that they could make selections if those who feel aggrieved because the intended drive was inhibited will reflect for a momen moment they cannot but bee see the injustice that might be expected to result from a general stock moving operation at this time and until the laws of the territory can be strictly enforced against those chose who break them them and especially against those who are habituated to taking that which is not their own without the interference in their behalf of some power that is professedly friendly to such operations |