Show report land Withdraw withdrawals els by the strip commissioners in in aa arizona izona and in n utah uta h the article glen given below which is a report compiled by commissioners W W of utah and thos maddock of arizona who were api pointed in july by governors dover nors george H dern and george W P hunt to investigate the land withdrawals and proposed withdrawals 0 of some six million acres and other land matters on the arizona strip which in 18 of 0 vital interest to every livestock own er in southern utah will be continued in tho the news until it la Is published in its entirety rho ibe report covers a wide variety a of subjects all closely r related elated to the welfare of at northern arizona and southern utah and Is highly interesting from start to finish the announced policy of the national 1 administration Is to turn over to the states the public lands now controlled by the federal government directly contrary to this policy or perhaps in fear that it may bo be enacted into yaw by congress the various departments and bureaus in control ot of parks forest reserves and indian reservations are making every effort to extend the areas under their control the people of our B tates states depending upon their state government to protect their interests where they conflict with the particular interests fostered by each of the federal bureaus 1 are engaging in sheep and cattle raising ral sIng mining farming and lumber lumbar manufacturing they include ninn interested in water power commerce retail business hunting fishing and recreation and the general T al development of our districts states and nation livestock the western livestock industry Is s maintained conditions IS if the rainfall were greater agriculture would supplant grazing rains in this section we aie seasonal and regional certain sections frequently experience deficiency of rainfall tor for save several ral seasons extremes of altitude also necessitate sei seasonal sonai grazing and considerable livestock movement on this account the exclusion causion of livestock from certain areas frea frequently bently makes it impossible for grazing to exist on much larger contiguous areas much of the laud withdrawn in northern arizona and utah ut ah Is in this class tor for which there Is considerable opinion among the continued to bac THE RIGHT TO LOVE AT HUB THEATRE 24 S americas own duse ot of drama at least insofar as the talkies tallies tal kies are concerned endows the screen next saturday and sunday nights october 24 and 25 at the hub theatre with lt a new emotional triumph that will elicit lall all the efio aice things any photoplay audience can cansay say it if there Is more to ho be said after those outstanding productions duct ions madam X 11 sarah and son woman the duse of course is ruth chatterton the drama the right to love which richard wallace has camerl zed in dialogue for paramount from susan Cla spells book brook evans and the whole Is an event which should not be missed by any in panguitch Pan gultch who take their entertainment tain ment seriously miss chatterton enacts two distinct roles rales in the right to love and in one of them veers from girlhood to mother type without a single error in mood coiffure speech costumes and poise this is at least a triple achievement ache the story set in the farm lands of the middle west tells ota ofa ot of a girl whose secret love trysts engender a tragic sacrifice of happiness in later years a state oi of affairs she debei determines mines will not be the heritage of her daughter the manner in which love finds a way through two federations of straight jackett i repression Is convincingly vincin gly narrated and leads leada to a most moat surprising climax REPORT T OF LAND WITHDRAW withdraws Ls 8 BY THE FEDERAL government IN ARIZONA AND UTAH continued from page one people on the arizona strip north of the colorado river that if the pres ont and proposed land withdrawals I 1 which contain the larger water resources are consummated and tb present rules and regulations of the federal bureaus are enforced this entire region of about six million acres or an area larger than massachusetts chu or new jersey might mig h t just as well be created into a federal no trespass district the livestock industry of th the a art ari z znna n na strip has been greatly diminished in alo last decade while tha Is ig partly duo due to drouth conditions these have not been as severe as aa those experienced perien perlen ced in the period ot of 1899 to 1904 inclusive on which account it is 19 the opinion of the men now engaged in tho the livestock business who in many cases represent the third generation in this business and locality and thus possess a first hand or tra knowledge of conditions for the last GO or 70 years that federal control and regulations instead of bene fitting the tha industry have dabag ed it if the production lot meat hides bides and wools tor for the people of the nation and the financial success of 0 those engaged in the livestock business Is the criterion by which we are to judge we must concur with this local opinion federal control of the kallab plateau an and d surrounding territory has seen tile tho deduction of the Uv livestock estock industry to about five per cent of its former size alze most of the comparisons that ore are made of the receipts of sheep and cattle raising with those from deer hunting bunting consider only the taxation received by the states and counties omitt omitting ing the hundreds of thousands of dollars formerly re calved by the people from the sale of livestock when these are consider considered ed the value of the domestic exceed that of the wild animals many times deer there would be less opposition on the part of local citizens to the poll ples pies of the federal bureaus if they were practical but western men resent government by imported theorists when they are unsuccessful the handling of the deer on the kaibab has not been consistent when the forest and game were created deer were more plentiful on this plateau than anywhere in the united states despite the facts that cattle used this range that the mountain lions or cougars and coyotes were uncontrolled and that the navajo and plute indians are estimated by merchants to have killed from three to six thousand deer annually these hides were mostly sold wholesale after being tanned tor for from to each this great hide production Is what caused this plateau to bo be known in the early days day s as the buckskin mountain following the creation of the forest and game preserve cattle were reduced bounties were paid for the killing of cougar and all hunting was prohibited As a result th the deer multiplied exceedingly when the browse on which the deer fed was killed by their excess gr grazing i abing they began to eat young trees this alarmed the forest service although as the old timber was not being cut there was little need for immediate reproduction of timber the forest service made an effort to reduce the number of deer an attempted deer drive to other regions was a complete sixteen hundred deer are reported to have been slaughtered in one season and the carcasses wasted practically unlimited hunting was authorized by the forest service which resulted bulted in a conflict between the arizona game department and the fe federal d government with the underbrush killed many of the deer starved or died from disease and present conditions as to their reduced size and weight and spread of antlers anglers indicate their improper nourishment the deer herd today Is reported by local residents to be but from five to twenty per cent as large as when at its maximum grass Is Is plentiful on the plateau at the present time as it Is little eaten by the deer this fact causes much local resentment as the live stockmen stoc kmen have for years known of the feeding characteristics of of the deer during the last open season deer acer are reported tobaie to have been taken from the plateau and probably an equal number were wounded and subsequently died the great reduction in the deer herd has permitted a I 1 start on the re growing of the underbrush but feeding condit conditions ious are arc so poor that it la Is believed that addition al deer will die during the coming winter and that a fall hunt equal to that of last year will result in I 1 less e ss deer being ift lott on the kaibab that at any time in the last seventy years presumably for this reason we en countered no opposition from the livestock men to the deer herd in tact fact it Is their their opinions opI opinion nIonA thai hr room 0 n th i ab far a reasonable number er of both I 1 deer and livestock and that hunting alone will keep the deer deef herd in check the improvement in transportation facilities to the kaibab and the adver advertising tWing of the fact that aser hunting there Js Is successful at should increase the number of hunters and tile tho annual kill while we agree with the report of the special investigating committee of nine made its as a result of their study of june 8 to 15 1931 1031 of conditions on the kaibab forest wo we decd decidedly edly disagree with their theft recommendations recommendation 4 that I 1 livestock be further reduced that the cougar end dad coyote be bd encouraged to increase and that the does ho be killed we bellevo behave that such a policy would so de creaso the arl is s to result lu pc poor jar after atte ft a ser bioti of which it would be difficult to establish reestablish re three hundred and forty cougar are lepor reported ted to have been killed on the kaibab during tho the last fourteen years henters believe that from 1 forty to fifty remain we feel that an effort off ort should be made to exterminate these cougar and coyotes as their killings of from two to four thousand fawns could be done better by controlled deer hunting bureau recommendations that vary from efrom the stopping of all hunting to the killing of deer in excess of that permitted by state laws enforced in other forests and the encouragement 1 of predatory animals like the cougar which la Is variously reported d to kill from fifty to one audred fifty head of deer per year are not apt to receive the respect of our people the north end of the kaibab plateau has never been a deer country and even today the browse la Is practically untouched this is presumed to be either because of lack of water or the limited range of 0 deer and their long use of the southern end of the plateau we believe that a reasonable amount of well regulated sheep grazing should be permitted la in the summer months on the north end of the plateau and that enough cattle be permitted in the entire forest to consume tho the excess grass now going to waste and thus reduce the tire fire hazard this more reasonable policy of grazing will not interfere with the doer deer and it will permit the livestock men to hold over their increase at a time when prices do not justify a sale we can see no necessity for the extension of the grand canyon park nor northward athward into the forest on some borne acres but that instead the section north and west of the road from little park to point sublime should be returned to the forest service this extension would automatically mati cally reduce the hunting areas to about two thirds of its present size and would insure the increase of the cougar and coyote in this area from which region they would be free to prey upon the deer on the remaining forest area in f tact a ct it Is probable that the management ot of the deer in the enlarged park area would result in a repetition of the vicious circle of an over and under number of deer the federal policy pursued on the kalbak lias has been epitomized as the continuity of the primitive 11 this I 1 is 3 impossible of attainment the canyon walls walla of various deposits thickness and elevation are eloquent of the changes in nature even the continuity of a period Is impossible evolution interferes good roads are carrying carrein g people peep 1 and a nd height freight into the kaibab at express train in speed foreign seed animals fu fungus agus and bacteria have already been introduced the black hill beetle epidemic in the kaibab from 1020 1920 to 1925 reported to have killed feet of timber Is evidence that outs alone in an unfavorable dry sei adaso might destroy the entire enair forest 71 kalbac like the rest of the able world is partly suba subject t ec tto to 0 t th h influence of mankind the qu quentio ti is a whether the endeavor will bet be so regulate it as to con conform forra to sort SOB olt theory of what was the primitive 0 so it will be of maximum utility at a pleasure to us and our successors som to be continued |