Show THE territorial WOOL GROWERS association there was a meeting of the territorial Wool growers association in the A 0 U W hall on west temple street saturday feb 27 the meet ing was called to order by president oharles crane J E F clinton acted as secretary president crane delivered the following ad address drese I 1 gentlemen and Wool prowers growers of utah we have met today to protest in no uncertain terms against a monstrous wrong which the territorial legislature is ia attempting to perpetrate upon us as wool growers gro were A bill has passed through both branches of the legislature and now awaits the governors signature which should it become a law will drive every and hi floii flock from the territory of utah it is a bill to amend section 2264 of the compiled laws making it a misdemeanor to first to construct or maintain any corral or yard to be used for the purpose of shearing or dipping of sheep within two miles of any stream of water used by the inhabitants of any town city or settlement for domestic purposes while this bill is a great wrong to us and its aim is to drive us from the public domain yet compared with section 5 of this amendment it is comparatively harmless section 5 reads thus to herd cattle horses or sheep within one mile of any stream of water used by the inhabitants ol 01 of any town city or settlement for domestic purposes this thi gentlemen ent lemen 2 la is toe the clause that inai win will annihilate aang te us note the cunning words of we this line to herd cattle horses hones or sheep heep ty now to those who know nothing of the methods oil 01 handling all kinds of stock it reads fair enough but to us who understand this matt erit is in destruction you know and the cunning author of this bill knows known cattle and horses are never herded but are turned on the range to roam at will and can always be found near or else standing during the day in the stream their droppings falling into the water thereof sheep on t the he contrary must be constantly under the eye of and while not corralled or yarded dhave jiahe b by constant custom been Tarde taught aught to rema remain n near the tent or wagon of the shepherd until taken to feed next morning this bill should it become a law would prevent our flocks from going to their summer range for we must follow some canyon in which there is generally a stream to reach our lambing grounds shearing hearing pens etc and even if permitted to reach our summer range no matter how far distant from a village we could not remain for water waler is essential to us no and our ficks flocks and no matter where we find atit flows persistently down hill and though we fortunately own a spring if of any size it too downward into some larger stream that eventually flows into the valley below we cannot escape a tream stream and would not if we could it is in class legislation for this reason it gives to horsemen with their 6 amuses and cattlemen with their long horned texans two miles on every stream in utah the sheep men like moses on mt sinai may view the promised land but their feet must not press the sacred soil oil why is a this amendment necessary the section which this measure aims to amend protects now and throws along alone every stream a safeguard and prevents the waters from being befouled it makes it a misdemeanor first to conduct or maintain any cat W tie or horse yard sheep pen stable pig pen chicken coop or other offensive yard yara or outhouse where the wash or drainage ro inage shall flow direct directly lJ into the water of any stream well or spring of water used for domestic purposes second to deposit pile unload or leave any manure heap offensive rubbish or carcass of any dead animal where the drainage will flow directly in the water of any stream etc third ard to yard camp or corral any loose cattle horstm horses mules sheep or swine where the waste or crinage dr drainage inage will flow directly into any stream well or spring opting of water used for domestic purposes you will observe gentlemen this section more than fills the bill it if equitable to all and prevents horse cattle and sheep men alike from maintaining a nuisance n P any stream then why you will ask aik is not this sufficient because gentlemen you and they kow kow that almost every corral in every village and town is directly on the stream that flows past their own and their neighbors door not miles away an the mountains but within a rod of the stream from which they and their neighbors lauve to dip the tor for domestic this amendment is aimed at our industry tr and no other it is not to give the the thy people better learer dearer or purer water but to destroy industry with one exception in our territory the number and valuation of sheep within our borders is given as follows number vaine sheep pounds of wool 1229 giving a grand value of truly a one that not only wool woo growers but every taxpayer within our territory should be e proud of for our sheep occupy our mountain ranges where no other stock can exist or at least which they have not heretofore occupied wool growing brings to our people more money than any other single industry indu atry is more diversified and of all the products of ranch and range is in the most valuable THE SHEEP COMPARED WITH OTHER productions OF RANCH AND RANGE the value of all the other productions of the ranch and range in 1890 were only this includes wine cider vinegar sorghum butter cheese cheele honey apples peaches apricots prams etc Stock growers throughout our Terri territory tor y will be surprised to know that the valuation on sheep in 1890 was greater tha than the cattle interest b by y ana and greater than the cattle and swine interest combined by and greater than the cattle swine mules sad and asses combined by and throw in in all goats and our sheep interest still has a surplus ox or and greater than all our horses by and that by placing a value on the horses of 50 per beada valuation far in excess of their surely these are the times that try mens souls for on the one hand is a democratic congress seeking to place wool on the free list and saying to us if you cannot support your family educate your children pay the freight to new york and sell your wool cheaper than can the barbarian who herds his flock on the heights of thabet or iu in the lowlands of africa then we are going to give our patronage to the naked wretch of south africa or the hereditary paupers haupers in the foothills othilla to of the himalayas Hima lavas and if that la in not enough the utah legislature which is tas a one of them was pleased leased to inform me also overwhelmingly angly democratic seeks to further increase n our woes boes by preventing us from pasturing on the public domain ap parent patently ly blind to the fact that of the acres of land in utah low loss than I 1 per cent is ia agricultural the ba balance lalice fit on only V for pasturage for our flocks every very session of the legislature some such bill has been passed I 1 well remember in a discussion before governor murray one member of the legislature gave the astonishing information that a herd of 2200 sheep and lambs in may drank the entire stream used by his settlement for irrigating purposes and when I 1 showed him that a stream as large as a lead pencil would water sheep he frankly acknowledged he knew nothing about what he was talking at another session a bill passed eased both houses prohibiting sheep from from coming within two and one half miles of any public road village or stream or within two and one half miles of any dairy or cheese factory where fifty cows were milked thus giving a little cow rancher almost one whole township hence we may consider ourselves very fortunate this bill did not include the right to hunt and kill sheep men on sight eight do you wonder the general government has placed a guardian over such a body of men in the person of our governor but gentlemen we must not despair there surely is a silver silver lining to the cloud which seemingly hangs over us we are told the magna charta charm is the bulwark of englich liberty and I 1 say to you gentlemen we also have a 8 magna charta charta in governor thomas who never yet has been found wanting in all sets acts of justice to the whole people while many members of the legislature may be ignorantly blind to the great injustice they have done ushe will w III not therein there is an excuse for many of them thein for their shortsightedness for I 1 feel confident they hey have not given this bill a second thought we can say to them as did the great shepherd of old give ive them for they know not what they 10 do F in all states outside of utah sheep men are protected and wooi growing fostered by wholesome laws bounties are paid for scalps of destructive animals and all sheep killed by dogs are paid for from the county funds but the wisp wimp solons of utah know what is in best and their peculiar acts only confirm me in the belief that we area peculiar people living in peculiar times we must today gentlemen protest to a responsible governor against the unjust and wrongful acts of an irresponsible legislature and I 1 feel confident that we shall not appeal to him in vain he will veto this unjust un appal at 1 measure as an surely as his great chief in washington will veto the springer bill stirring speeches against the sheep bill were made by H JF aust L E hall heber bennion Benn lon barlow ferguson kajor major ailva elbridge tufts aud and others PROTEST the following protest wm wab unanimously adopted to his excellency arthur L thomas governor of utah the legislative assembly of utah territory has passed a bill 9 H F no 65 entitled an act to amend section 2264 of the compiled laws of utah 1888 by inserting at the end of said section after subdivision 3 the following subdivisions to be numbered 4 and 5 as follows to construct or maintain any corral or yard to be used for the purpose of shearing or dipping of sheep within ne mile of any stream of water used by the inhabitants of 0 an any y town city or settlement for domestic purposes where the refuse or filth from said corral or yard would naturally find its way to said stream of water through the action of the elements 5 to herd cattle horses hones or sheep within one mile of any stream of water used by the of any town eity city or settlement for domestic par poses we most moat respectfully represent that if this bill should become a law it will practically destroy one of the greatest in dus destries tries of the territory the action proposed by the Legisla legislature tuie will work a great injury to the sheep breeders bleeders bre eders of utah and fatally injure this most important industry if adverse legislation be passed the sheep industry gives employment to more men provides more comfortable homes brings more prosperity to our people than any other single ing e industry to our territory while the proposed object of the amendment is to give the people in the various towns below the mountain ranges better purer and clearer water and to prevent the befouling of the water it manifestly ignores the fact that every corral in every town village and hamlet within this territory Terri territory tor is at most but a few rods from a stream and draining directly therein from which the inhabitants have to dip their water used for domestic and eul culinary inary purposes by this industry the mountain and desert ranges have been made to contribute largely to the revenues of this territory and to the wealth of her citizens a revenue which would otherwise alt be a lost to 10 the tha territory and her people it gives employment to hundreds in our fair borders provides a home market for our farmers almost every man and boy within our small settlements are more or less employed some part of the year in looking after his own or his neighbors flocks or in n freighting dipping shearing herding etc it makes us self sup porting and self reliant builds 11 up manufacturing fac turing industries in our hixt midst thus retaining in our territory which would otherwise go to enrich the people of the east bast and europe in many counties of the total revenue derived from taxation sheep and their products pay 80 per cent of all the taxes we further represent that nothing is ir so harmful to our industry nothing so prejudicial to its success as continual agitation it A unsettles unsettled un settles business alarms the timid and creates uncertainty uncertainty taint Y the law of 1888 boyers all the ground necessary gives ample protection to citi citizens zeng and meets the reasonable demands of the people the proposed legislation is unconstitutional tut ional as it interferes with the liberty of the individual by restricting arbitrarily in the enjoyment of his natural privileges and in the control of his is pr private i property by prohibiting him fr from m herding sheep upon his own land when situated upon any stream the flock masters of this territory without reference to their pa party t affiliations hanst most earnestly protest protea ag against the bill passed by the legislature and respectfully fully ask your excellency to veto tile the same CHARLES CRANE J E CLINTON seely secy prest resolutions the following resolutions were also adopts d without a dissenting voice whereas there is much unwarranted prejudice pre iudice existing in this territory against sheep and a desire to crush out one of the greatest industries ot of the territory and which is is causing much trouble and expense to the men having investments in sheep and whereas this opposition is carried to such an extent in working on the prejudices antwork of citizens citizens to get them to sign petitions ana work for adverse legislation to 0 o the interests of that large number of persons engaged in wool growing and we believe also to the general inte interests reste of 0 our u tair fair territory therefore be it resolved that in the protection of our rights and interests it is the senise of this thia convention that we will give employment to and make our from men whose interests inte reata are identical and have impressed expressed themselves as our friends the meeting then adjourned after which the sheep men ju in number called upon the governor and asked him to veto the sheep bill governor tap thomas mas assured them that he be would consider the question thoroughly and do what was recht COUNTY association following are the constitution and bylaws by laws adopted by the salt bait lake county association THE constitution for the purpose of protecting the industry of wool growing in this territory for the purpose of protecting the rights of persons engaged in this industry for the purpose of maintain maintaining i ng the he vested rights in the use of the common range which have been acquired by the wool growers for the pui purpose pose of protecting ourselves against the enactment of laws lawn which are designated to destroy our rights and crush bur business and aid for the purpose of preventing the spread of a public sentiment hostile to us and our welfare we the undersigned undersigner under signed ers ere and dealers in wool in the county of salt lake utah territory do make ordain and establish ais constitution for ourselves as an asso oURe body ARTICLE 1 I the name of this association shall be the Wool growers association of salt lake county utah ARTICLE IL II 11 the objects of this association shall be to carry into effect the purposes above set forth to secure to the members as far as possible an equal participation in the lone fits and in the work necessary there to to defend the individual members from oppression of any kind and to make a common cause of any injury or injustice inflicted upon i a member ember to protect the rights of the in the use of the range the water courses and streams and his bis right to the public highways to provide a fund that can be used at any time to defend a member in |