| Show - 8B 1 The Salt Lake Tribune Are Newspapers Becoming Dinosamos? SignLanguage Cass Set for Parents 18 1991 Friday January - ePreston Nutter History's Almost Silent on Utah Cattle Baron : - — PRICE (AP) — Names like "Rob- t I o1 Itro1 : --- I- 1 i2 0 I r ven to outlaws were also prime range lands for tens of thousands of cattle — all part of a flourishing Western e tradition of cattle ranching that still exists today open-rang- In laws they And 1 i those days however when outwere not out robbing payrolls wereoften out rustling cattle the sheer nature of the land- - ! Special to The Tribune OGDEN — Parents of deaf children are invited to receive free instruction sponsored by the Weber State University Sign e classLanguage Club es are available in the Bountiful on Monday evenings starting Jan 28 and in the Ogden on Saturday mornsign-langua- Mormon ranchers had been using the range for 50 years but had never filed claims with the federal government Nutter filed the claims and subsequently controlled an area there larger than all of New England When Mormon ranchers protested the courts sided with Nutter "He was shrewd" Webb said "If he wanted some land or cattle he would get it Certainly not by foul means but by using his head" At times Nutter was the largest cattle baron in Utah competing with other cattle companies in southeastern Utah and the LDS Church's Deseret Land and Livestock ber's Roost" and "Brown's Park" and the "San Rafael Swell" are synonymous with the most infamous outlaws the West has ever known But during the 1880s and 1890s those same canyons that offered ha-- i' l starting Jan ings 26 The classes will be taught by Bill Vicars a professional instructor who currently teaches for Weber State University and also the Utah Community Center for the Deaf For information write to Sign Language Weber State University Box 8190 Ogden Utah 84408 The public may also register for the classes for $30 per person The Saturday class starts at 9 am The Monday class is at 6 pm more effective proved graphics expanded indexes headlines summaries as well as a reorganized system aimed at interpretive news journalist said his northHatch a ern Utah daily is working closely with schools to help overcome illiteracy and develop stronger reading habits with school children to "But there is also a need for reporters and editors be more creative in their writing and presentation of the news" he said" Newspapers need to become more skilled and more caring in their communities or they By Alf Pratte Tribune Correspondent PROVO — Despite declining circulation and gloomy predictions for the future three Utah publishers put on happy faces Thursday about their businesses comparison with a dinosaur The dinosaur according to some critics is the American newspaper industry which is not keeping up with Americas growth trends is not attracting young readers and is losing profits To some the daily newspaper is slowly becoming extinct as replaced by television and other competitors Notwithstanding such predictions the publishers James Randy Hatch of the Ogden Standard-Examine- r Mortimer of the Deseret News and Kirk Parkinson of Provo's Daily Herald said they see light at the end of the communications tunnel for a number of reasons "If we keep our product relevant and and recognize the values of the community mid the stories they want to read we newspapers) will not be dinosaurs" Mortimer said "We will be around for a long time to come" Speaking to 700 students at a BYU communications Symposium Mortimer ticked of the changes his newspaper is making to keep older readers and most particular- ly those under-4They included USA Today style changes such as im Of Deaf Children sign-langua- fourth-generatio- will die" A University of Utah and Columbia University graduate Hatch said that net profits in newspapers such as his across the country have declined from 30 to 35 percent of gross revenue to 6 to 10 percent Standard-As a consequence some papers — including the have had to lay employees off halt create or furloughs hiring Parkinson said that in addition to television newspapers are being forced to compete with total circulation throw away publications mail and alternative delivery systems In reaction he said newspapers are being forced to make better use of circulation systems and product easy-to-rea- d - n Examiner 0 I i I :' cs aemma 1 itmus dot mri teii 1 - 1 oahh e al 4 1 tt - f - k - - - - - -- - 1 1 - - - - - - fi bmg their code prevented them from rustling from an employer" ) It was Nutter's uncanny ability to blend shrewd negotiation with determination that turned an otherwise unnoteworthy gold prospector into one of the richest and most politically influential cattle barons in Utah history ' In time Nutter would become one of Utah's most powerful businessmen and one of the largest cattle barons anywhere in the Old West Even with a cattle empire stretching from the Grand Canyon to the Book Cliffs Nutter's story remains virtually unknown "He is a very much overlooked fig ure in Utah history" said Roy Webb assistant manuscripts curator in Special Collections at the University of Utah's Marriott Library "He was much bigger than the more famous ones in Wyoming or Texas But he tended to operate behind the scenes He kept his accounts in his head and he kept it all to himself It wasn't anybody else's business but his" Conservative estimates place his cattle herds at between 25000 and " 30000 head i The story of Preston Nutter is one I of famous outlaws renegade Indians and range wars with sheep ranchers Many Nutter stories are undoubted! ly myths Many others were recount ed by his daughter in the Summer Historical Quarterly prior t to1964 Utah her death Currently there is an ongoing atand tempt by Carbon County docuBrigham Young University to ment the actual historical ranching sites throughout Nine Mile Canyon where Nutter's empire had its head- quarters after 1902 "To appreciate the whole history 1 of Nine Mile Canyon or the history of cattle ranching in Utah you have to look first at Preston Nutter" said Miller an archaeologist for the IPam of Eastern Utah's Prehistoric Museum in Price Attempts to piece together Nutt ter's role in the history of southern Utah are difficult The native Virginian avoided publicity and was any- k thing but flamboyant And fires in k 1936 and again about 20 years later of Nutter's personal 1 destroyed many " akwAr iron-fiste- t i 1 1 -- But the legend lives on Nutter 1 claimed never to have worn cowboy boots and always rode a mule — 4 k something he could do for days on 4 end without food or sleep He had a for driving his men hard treputation " and his enemies harder 4' During one encounter with sheep tt herders — who in those days tradi- a tionally roamed the state without respect to who owned grazing leases — the shepherd told Nutter "They tell me I be all right if I don't run into old ) man Nutter "They told you right" Nutter said Because of his tremendous wealth li to buy to Nutter !often found it easier 5 out troublesome competitors Nutter's cattle operation would eventencompass the entire "Arizona area the entire summer range Strawberry Reservoir the uIally West Tavaputs Plateau and Book Cliffs one cattle drive Nutter pushed 5000 head of north across the Colorado Riv - $ 50 $ TO t t a winter dubbed mid-188- the "Great Cattle Extinction" de- - on Utah and Colorado — :4 scended snows so deep and winds so cold that 'I i i business and cowboys — with no work to be found — often became outlaws di- s But Nutter had predicted the sastrous winter and had purchased leases around the railroad at Thompo son Springs in Grand County When became nonexistent on the Nutter survived by using the Irange to bring food to his cattle got so bad that ranchers started selling their cattle to Nutter for 10 cents on the head" Webb said "He a bull in a bear market And t was what got his herd started and that's i put his competitors out of business" I Webb who studied Nutter's pa o pers for two years said Nutter had a 0 tendency to step on people who got P but he always did it within tO in hislawway"The the image of a ruthless cat- -"! a six shooter and cowwith baron 4i tle boy boots just didn't apply to him' he said "Nutter used lawyers in- - V i ' 4 I r stead" : And he was not above using polifurther his agenda In the sent! 1890s when ments were at a fever pitch Nutter filed claims on all of the water holes along the Arizona Strip 51 i 3 f- n ' 47: 9r ' -v J k 6 programmable features -- Ici:!kbo4-K77- V k ' ' - 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