Show advantages OF GOOD STOCK when this valley vailey was first settled there was a great scarcity of american horses horbes horses among the settlers some few of the people started from nauvoo with good horses but were under the necessity in many instances of trading them off for oxen before leaving winter quarters cattle were cheaper and more enduring as draught animals than horses and were therefore principally used indian and california horses were consequently qu antly in demand here after the se settlement t was made they were the only kinds which could be easily obtained As saddle horses they were easy eliy gaited and enduring and answered every purpose but for harness they were not so eio well adapted they did not as a rule take kindly to teaming and their owners had very little satisfaction in working them at the present time good horses are generally used many good animals have I 1 leen een cen introduced here by persons moving here aud and by others sending back for them and they have also been raised here every man who introduces aliue allue a nine fine blooded stock animal into this country confers a benefit upon the people of the whole territory if care be taken of them they soon multiply and are placed within the reach of men who know the value of good horses and can take care of them we understand there have been several bands of california horses brought here this past bummel summer bummer and traded for cattle cattie the cattle have then been driven to california where they have sold for cash one thousand head of these horses we are informed have been lately brought in and are readily exchanged with our citizens for cattle sueh such exchanges are very bad ones for lor the territory some individuals may see an advantage in making them but to the community at large they are injurious the same reasons do not exist now for purchasing this kind of horses that did in the be beginning dinning of our settlement with a little pains a better class of horses can now be obtained their first cost may be a little more than in dian or california horses but then there is so much more satisfaction and profit in using them that there is no room for comparison between them and the others good horses and other good stock are as easily kept as those of an inferior quality and they are more remunerative to their owner owners fl A nine fine blo bio blooded oded colt or calf will sell for a better price and much more hea tea readily headily dily dlly than one of an inferior kind this the best stock raisers here as well as those in other parts have demonstrated to their satisfaction we are now in a better position than we ever were to obtain good stock of all kinds it should be the aim of every farmer and stock raiser ralser raiberto to get td the best test blooded animals ho he can and fodis to fo discountenance the introduction and multiplication ti of inferior breeds bleeds therease Ther elare enre eare many of our durstock stock raisers who feel much interested in this business and who take pains to improve the quality of the animals they raise but they are comparatively ively few it is probable however that their number will increase and as the means of the people become more abundant greater attention will be paid to this subject it is very necessary that we should improve in this as us well as in other respects we ought to have havo the best kinds of animals here as well as vegetables fruits and grains but we certainly think that thet the trading rading 0 of f cattle for california horses has the cf effect to prevent this cud coD summation consummation and no person who Is correctly informed and has theina interest the ebest of the territory at heart i will make such exchanges I 1 if there is a surplus of cattle in any of the settlements ants they need n eed not besold besola be sold for horses which are less valuable themselves and moire more easily stol stolen elf cli if turned on to the range than cattle by taking proper steps they can be sold for fbi cash the stock which has been taken to california this past summer and fall fail has hab has sold for the gold |