| Show A REPLY TO DR FAUST LETTER correspondence of the J in a recent issue of your paper to Is a correspondence by dr faust of salt lake city and for reckless assertions mr faust goes beyond anything that I 1 have seen for many a day I 1 am not a resident of utah at present but have spent some twenty five years of my time in that territory therefore am zot not ji ignorant orant of the situation I 1 wish to call vr dr faults attention first to co the lierse he ventures to say that the horse did not bring your territory last year alep to your doors he says and see the electric cars can and you will see that his occurs tion is ia gone now in salt larke lake city alone facts will prove that mr faust is ia mistaken let the gentleman step to his hie door and he will me eee the horse horae driven hither and thither in every direction there la is not a mercantile house bouse in salt lake or any other city that can carry on its bu business without the much abused horse now I 1 will vet venture iture to say that there are more horses in use in salt lake every business day than on the farms and ranges of half a country county I 1 last year saw the horses that drew Pre silent harrison harrimon and party in the carriage along the streets of your city and I 1 thought those animals exhibited much intelligence and yet dr faust would have us believe that the occupation of the horse is gone now mr editor I 1 propose to show that the gentleman Is short abort in his bis estimate as to what the horse bone did lost last year of something over a million dollars he says how much did they bring into the country last year I 1 presume he mearis means your territory the farmer plows his ground with the horse be harrows or drills in the grain by the same power hay season comes along the farmer hooks the faithful animals to the mower cuts his hay bay rakes it by means of the horse the animals draw it to the barn or yards and in ih the majority of cases the horse is attached to the hay I 1 derrick by his bis strength the hay bay is elevi elevated ted to the stack by abia time the harvest is on and the horse home does all the work there again in fact ho he pr produces bread forthe for the people we farmers think the horse hns an occupation the item as to cattle in mr pauses article to is also erroneous but I 1 will leave the answering of that to some one now in the cattle business next he says be farmers kick at the sheep med men it it is true they have kicked and not without cause in the past sheep borders have i not ot respected the rights of the settlers but would range their nocks flocks almost to their very doors and after consuming all feed would pass pase on to the next place leaving dairy cow nothing to exl eat but be it said to sheep mens credit they are now more considerate of others 9 rights than WAS the ON case a few years ago next dr faust goes for the farmers for what they do not do and fall fail to give them for what they do because the abe utah farmers cannot compete misola to with those of nebraska Nebrask so laws iowa aud and illinois to in the production of pork be calls them a lazy lot it is astonishing ly ag that an old timer like dr faust should make such a declaration it would boot be of little avail for the utah farmer with his bis small irrigated farm to raise corn for foi the production of pork when his friends in the above named states can raise corn for twelve to thirteen cents a bushel then he makes a bad break by blaming the home farmers because the corn peas pickles and fruit on the grocery shelf are imported I 1 ask why donat the sheep men manufacture their wool into cloth and then into costs coats pants and vests it is because they have their hands full in the care of their flocks I 1 will venture to say that should dr faust and others build canning and pickling establishments in every towa tow a of the territory the farmers would soon produce the raw material As well might he be say why the farmers raises beets before there was a factory the reason that Baur crout tripe and preserves preB erves come the east Is ie because there are people there in that burd business fiess As aa well might the merchants of montana cry shame ebale on the farmers of that state upon the arrival of utah fruit has ha it ever occurred to dr faust that the merchants of brigham city alone exported last season reason thou sands of doll dollars arsI worth of fruit why was waa it shipped in this uncondensed condit condition IOD because euch uch men vie as dr faust lacked entell enter i rise and capital to establish canneries though the farmers pay Is ia the smallest ot of all avocations yet it will not do for all to quit farming and go dome one must farm for we cannot exist on mutton alone T A DAVIS HENDERSON cherry creek post office idaho |
