Show ADDRESS TO STOCKMEN organization and vigilance required to prevent stealing I 1 advantages ol of grading up cattle and horses in looking over toe the past year we behold much good that has resulted from our labors in the stock interests when we first commenced to form associations we met with much opposition and incredulity this has all been overcome and we have not only organized nineteen or twenty associations but bat these have been consolidated into a territorial one which will in the next meeting we have be incorporated under the laws of utah all feelings of jealously have been allayed and all stockmen stoc kmen are working in harmony but all organizations organisations are not as yet perfected now while it is winter is the time to hold your meetings I 1 and enroll new members and let your executive committee select detectives this is highly necessary as all tile the intermountain inter mountain territories will form a detective force so that a thief leaving one place with stolen property can be apprehended in another we have received word that a large herd of cattle has been gh gathered in southwest colorado that was stolen from southern utah also aleo horses that were driven west unless the stock men will become more vigilant these plundering thieves will continue to raid us many stockmen stoc kmen will say that they have but few cattle or horses and have no need of joining us as to them I 1 will say that if they lose their is more of a loss to them than to a man that has many if a mau man has a team of horses and they are stolen he is atoot afoot and who will help him to hunt ebeo them but if ne is a member of some assoria tiou every other member would be interested in their recovery there are many seemingly good men who do not join any organization and these may be said to sympathize with thieves the good resulting from our last years organizations are self evident something over 30 carloads of fine cattle have been imported at a cost of the change these will make in next years calves will be at one year old instead of getting 1250 50 you will get from vo 20 to and this is no guess work A holstein calf at f four our months old sold t hiis tiis its summer for khe owner can now get for it A great many valuable stallions have come to tee tae territory and among these many large ones if we had a thousand head of hortes horses weighing from twelve to eighteen hundred DOU pounds Dds we could find ready sale for them at not less than from thre threat el to six hundred dollars a span the orders that we receive from the east all want from a thousand to sixteen hundred pound mares or horses of these we now have but few and none to spare hence I 1 would advise horsemen to get large sires it takes but little more expense or labor to raise a good horse than a poor one if st ockfen stockmen stoc kmen think that we are aie not losing stock enough every year to run lun our schools the territory they are much mistaken four years ago a young man purchased a herd of cattle at cheyenne city for twenty five anve thousand dollars collais dol lais some time afterwards the man that sold them was arrested by the wyoming officers for stealing other stock he then confessed to the young man that all the cattle tie he had bad just sold him had been stolen from utah and that he had better sell immediately which ane young 50 ung man did to an english company for and still there are aie plenty 01 ol men that see no use of joining cattle associations stockmen stoc kmen you nave have no time to lose jose but go at once and per feet your organ organization iza tion let the president and secretary visit each settlement and see the stockmen stoc kmen and those officers that have not done anything or will not will please resign and let those who will act take then their places I 1 wish each as social ion to make a report of the percentage in death of cattle cattie as near as possible as we are required to send one to the international association the deport can be obtained in your meetings I 1 especially request those members who attended the convention to in their respective counties H HJ J FAUST chairman executive committee address all communications to heary snell bnell secretary of the utah cattle anti and horse growers association |