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Show THE CITIZEN 11 " CATTLE INDUSTRY in the UNITED STATES and ITS PLACE By J. landed in they found neither horses Spanish adventurers The first cattle to come to our shores were brought from San (Domingo in 1521, and were landed at from Spanish jVera Cruz, Mexico, is a stopping fships. San Domingo (point in the West Indies where it was (customary to break the voyage from oid Spain to America. nor cattle. . cattle increased, they spread northerly over the coastal plains of Texas and the far west. This was a As the where they had to travel a long dis- tance for water. Whitmore and McIntyre kept their cattle near Pipe Springs, on the border of Utah and Arizona, and Dock9 Whitmore and Bud McIntyre were killed here by the Indians in the early 60s, and many of their best horses driven away. Some of these cattle were turned into the Canaan Cooperative company and helped build up. that splendid herd of some twelve to fourteen thousand head of cattle. This cooperative companys herd of cattle did more in building up and sustaining the Dixie country than any other factor. The writer got some early experience on these ranches and still remembers some of the offspring of catthose yellow brindle tle with all the fighting qualities of their ancestors. long-hom- lorii gonad similar to the country they fere raised on in Spain and they rospered under their new environ-- , lent This was the beginning of 1 iany millions of the long-horin country ns exas. When the English first settled Vir-inin 1607, they brought over cattle 1 'om England to the colony between ie years 1609 and p 1611, and they, prospered, so .that by 1680 their were and after a g ittd winter the colony shipped fifty lousand hides back to England. As civilization moved westward, ley brought their cattle along with lem 80 that the cow was always in le front ranks. The Oxen When Utah was settled, the used oxen and cows to draw wagons and stock cattle were along with the different com-- .. ..e8, Also cattle and horses were into Jailed Utah from Texas and Mexico. We had the Whitmores, ntyres, Moody s ranches and s, all from Texas, who settled southern Utah. Their cattle re ssed with the cattle that came in oni Iowa and Missouri; and they e a splendid foundation stock for ; AT ! THE WEST M.MACFARLANE they were leggy, hardy, active ani- Cattle and Horse Grow- - mals and they fitted in admirably President ers9 Association EN COLUMBUS and the first America, IN SETTLING I ia j over-stock- ed pio-fc- rs : Cun-ngham- ed Fighting Stock. There was a light yellow bull calf that was ready to fight the day he was bom. We boys would tether him with a long rope and then play back out to see who could go the closest to him without getting hit. The calf generally bagged from one to three or four cripples at each setting. One Sunday afternoon we had him tied to a tree near the ranch garden' and one of the neighbor ranch women came to see what was going on. One of the boys, thinking to stage an extra that day, untied the rope from the tree. Everybody vanished but the woman, and the calf struck her just below the knees from the rear. She landed astride the beast then it was hard to say which made the most noise, the woman crying fire and murder, or the bellowing of the calf. .However, nobody was seriously hurt, but the woman never found out just how it happened. Cattlemen as Pioneers. ( S" & fSL : m The cattlemen have been the pio- neers of the places, followand trails roads and making ing their cattle into the inaccessible places and open spaces, in their quest for feed. They have been the civilizers of the west. With all the hardships and privations there was a lure about the life on the open range every young man seemed to enjoy. Nobody ever thought of carrying a lunch, and if he were following a band of horses or a bunch of cattle and night overtook him he would either keep on the following the animals or tether his horse out and lay on his saddle blanket until morning. This life of determination, sacrifice and hardship built those splendid characters we have in the pioneers of the west. Characetrs like Davie Crockett and Bowie of the Alamo, Colonel Ike Pryer, Henry Jastro and the Texas rangers. In our own state the life on the range produced such stalwart characters as Porter Rockwell, James An-drus, Abram Hatch, John R. Murdock and many others who were leaders in their respective communities in every walk of life. The character and trend of cattle in the west have greatly changed in out-of-the-w- ay the past forty or fifty years, as will be seen by the accompanying cuts of d and steers, also the way of handling cattle has long-hom- ed short-home- changed, At the Roundups, At the r0Qnd g of the eariier therfi were generally from 8eventy five to one hundred riders. Each outfit had horse wranglers who went out and slept with their band of horses. When they brought them in in the morning an expert roper went into the band and lassoed each mount. When the company was ready to move in the morning, especially in the early there was alstages of the round-uways plenty of sport for horses were seen bucking with their riders in all direction People are asking today what is the future of the cattle industry, and what about the prices of beef. From 1921 to 1927, growers have been producing beef at a loss. A herd of cattle was a liability, rather than an asset, and the larger the herd the greater the loss. Under these conditions, liquidation went on until a real shortage of cattle developed in the fall of 1927, and cattle went up in price. The ex-(Contued on page 20.) p, |