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Show AORICULTUKE VS. LIVE STOCK. Clash Between tho Interests Over Watershed Proposition. The clash btween the agricultural and the IKestntk Interests nrose soon after the call lo order In Ihe afternoon session It came up rather unexpected. I) nrr a resolution Introduced by A 1' Dnremus of Pali Iike This is Ihe lesoliitlnn Ilesolwil That the entire water shed of our Irrigation lcm are Ihe essen till parts of such slems. that their pro lei Hon ns ihe sntines of Ihe w iter sun l Is of irainoiinl Import nice tn the w lir iimtm ot Ih m ,u nnd thii n h shiil shuiill in I must be un ler the ah solute control of the pet. le resident on the sslcm of which Ihe shut Is u pari jMrnrtTANci: or stock in-ti:hi:sts in-ti:hi:sts As Ihe committee hnd rerommenlel the report for ndoi Hon the chairman of Ihe committee Judge Johnson wns ailed upon and brlell) sinteil the reason rea-son for Mich aillnu-lhnt It was deemed necessnrj lo pmteu Ihe watersheds of Ihe state Jesse M Smith of Pivls lie.dul Ihe sheepmen in the opposition Hi said It would be unfair to kite tn one cnmmunlt) the tontiol of the watersheds water-sheds aboo it and lo exclude there, from all other peisone Iho stock In-teiesls In-teiesls In sild were Ihe most Im-lortnnt Im-lortnnt in tin Sluti not ive ting een the ngrl ultural nnd their privileges , should not lie nirtalled 111 this wa I 'S1ILI.I' MJMNST iHIN ' I JudkO LctirHiul oung of Salt Iike Rave a touching description of a forest IhiotiKh which he passed last summei the gtound li.lmpld hird bj the hoofs of thousinds of sheep and Ihe trees ellnw nnd illng b lenson of being girdle 1 bj the sheep us high ns the animals could reach It Ih Jiim a question of sheep against mm declaied the Judge with great emotion Are we going to protect our watirsheds from thise destructive forces or must the iwop'e move out of Utah entlielv. and leave the vegetation to Ihe sheep' M-ti'MVi 8 COSTIlADIl TION This gloomy pliiuie did not appeal to J c Maikej of Salt laike He said lie could noi endure to sit nub H and hear men of supposed leirnlng make suite-inenls suite-inenls of suih falsehood 1 lie wisdom of theorj was sublime he said but II sank Into liiHigiiillciure compared with the wisdom of practical e-vperlenee All tha theories advanced b all the engineers of Kurooe uinl imi.ri.ri m engineers of i:urore and tinerlm ale In error asserted Mr Mackej In all my iwcnt ears of sheep raising I nevei anw a sheep touch a pine tree ' Piiuri-s iiEsro.ssiniuT This stutement was hreeied with n murmur of .1 rlalnn but Ml Mac key wns mil daunted ami plunged Into an extensive dissertation nn the dietetics of sheep tlu (impose of which was to show that the animals confened actu il lieneilt on the land In which they wem allowed to kraae Mr Macke also ie-seined ie-seined the Insinuation that the grulug of the livestock had aiiMhlng lo do with tn scntclt of water The seisons have charged since wc came Into theto aliees ' he said Of late jears we li.i 1 very little snow How can ou Intelligent men snj the sheep are icspinslhle when (iod Al-mlght Al-mlght alono has chirge of the pit-clpltatlon pit-clpltatlon I hero were ninnj others who spoke cm minus iiliascs of the iiuestlon but Delegate Dougall tlm choked off the nigunienis wllh n motion for the previous pre-vious nueillon The vote showed Hint the fnimeis weie considerably In the majnrltv nnl the ictolutlon was adopted J W'TED OltDKrt REVOKED The fight wnsremvved later however, nn a resolution Introduced h Jesse il bmtth protesting against the with ilrnwal from entry nnd settlement of lOM nerea in tho Wasatch lunge, and requestlns: the Secretary of tho Intel lor to revoke his order, reserving onlj such limited areas as might be neccsjir for the beneilclal piotectlon of tho watersheds water-sheds MOItl. UEVTED DEDATE The nBrlcultuii Is tcented denser In II r '.tiion ni there were more n ioi i i c h' th vtoi kmen i i iiluig thai ih fanners wanted i Ih big f i. I i i- iw eiiabiMie 1 In lu h w i ac to ibut out rvervbody an! the farmers rontendlng that the she men desired to have them left open for the iiBe of all alike rinallv the reiolutlm was tabled by a vote of 12 to 7 routines The vote nf Hall Lake rnun was not recorded as the dele gates were evenly dlvlied In sentiment (IOV HC.N r 8 ISIT fJnv Hunt nf Idaho was a special guest of the convention nnd occupied a seat with (;ov Wills on Ihe platform lie was tailed Uon to speak, nnd responded re-sponded wllh a few woids of congratulation congratu-lation on the work of the Irrigators He snld his own Slate was not mulcted with the same evils revnluit In Utah and that Idaho was receiving somo of th most valued additions tn Its population popu-lation from those who tame across the southern border to esrape the illlllcul lies that thej encounter here |
