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Show to the governor, urging him to "vote" the bill. The exeutive has also received receiv-ed several other communications of like tenor from those having the sheep interests in view, from which we print the following from our fellow townsmen: towns-men: Manti City, Utah, Feb. 15.1SiJ To His Excellency Arthur L. Thomas, Governor of Utah Territory Dear Sir: As you are aware there is a bill novv pending in the Legislature which, if passed and becomes alaw.will become a fatal blow to he greatest of all our in-clustiies, in-clustiies, viz, the sheep industry. A monstrous petition, backed by prejudicial prejudic-ial motives, has gone forth from this place, appealing to the Legislature for relief on account of the floods which we have been subject to of late years. As it appeared they could not reach their end by that plea, thoy changed their 1 appeal to sanitary complaints, charging charg-ing in both instances the sheep with the responsibility of resulting evils. Xow it is certainly evident to all foil minded people that the elements of the atmosphere is the primary cause of our floods, as the same kind of floods, have oceured from the first settlement of our city, long before we had sheep on the range, it is unjust to attribute this calamity to the sheep In a sanitary-view sanitary-view all who are acquainted with the conditions of onr country towns do know that the horses and cattle which are constantly kept in and aronnd these settlements are the greatest of all causes of befouling the water of our streams. As the bill now in consideration prohibits the herding of horses, cattl e and sheep etc. the technicality of this word herding is the great object oi the friends of this bill as the cattle cat-tle and horses ranging on the stream are not herded but roam at large, feed and often die and decompose in the very streams jwhich by this law is made too sacred to be polluted and defiled de-filed by sheep. The enforcement of this Democratic measure will practically force the sheep out of the territory, as the streams in our canyons are less than two miles apart. We therefore respectfully esk your Excellency to veto any bill calculated to destroy our best industry. Yours very respectfully, W. G. Cbawfoi.d, Secretary Central Utah Wool Co. The Sheep. Mr. Greaves presented a petition on Monday from John B. Maiben and 530 other citizens of Sanpete asking legislation legis-lation to prevent the befouling of water which was referred to the committee on public health. This petition cites that over forty years asro Manti was settled on City creek, from which the people get water for domestic purposes; that within the past few years persons have used the Manti canyon for summer herd-grounds herd-grounds till the numbor of sheep there now aggregates 50,000 iu the summer season, and that the water of the creek are befouled by this herding, washing aud dipping of sheep until the water is unfit, for domestic uses. The petition recites how sheep have damaged the' canyon and made it very dusty in the summer; has been the cause of damage by floods, because of the'sheep making the ground susceptible of being washed away and tells of a public meeting of tho citizens of Manti, at which their grievances were discussed aud resolu- tions passed asking Legialativo relief. The bill came up again on Tuesday in the council, and the following was offered for and against the measure: Mr. Haynes offered and had read the protest the sheep men adopted in can vention in this city the other day. Mr. Evans said it was not a question of injury to the wool industry, but the bill is a sanitary measure, and he drew a picture of the sheep in being herded, sheared and dipped along the streams nntil they have depopulated some of the towns in fie south; that If the bills were passed the sheepmen would protect against their herds befouling water. Iu the south the people use the water from the streams because there are no swells. The men who are in the sheep industry and have the wealth of which they boast are able to take care of the'r herds without making the filth run into the streams supplying the small cities with water for domestic uses, and he insisted insis-ted the bill will not destroy any indus. try, but will protect the people. He nrged it as a matter of serious concern to allow the streams to be poisoned by the sheep and the chemicals used in dipping, aud he was in favor of the bill. Mr. Peters told how, in 1883 in compliance com-pliance with petitions from the sauth a law was passed making it a misdemeanor misde-meanor to allow water and filth of herds of sheep, tattle or horses to run into streams, andno prosecutions have been under that law. He opposed the bill because it included the tributaries of streams, and under sncn ri bill no stock conld be pastured. ' ? Mr. Baskin endorsed the remarks of Mr. Peters and said that the bill will prevent any pasturing of stock any place. He was of the opinion regarding sheep, that there was more imagi nary than real danger, since there had been no prosecutions under the law. Mr. Melville insisted that in his district dis-trict the thousands of sheep herded in the mountains made filth in the streams causing injury to the health of the people peo-ple in the towns. Mr. Haynes called attention to the law passed in 1888, and said he should vote against the bill in its present form and moved to strike out section 5 reading: read-ing: To herd cattle, hones or sheep within one mile of any stream of water used by the inhabitants of any town city or settlement for domestice purposes. pur-poses. This motion was lost. A motion to lay on the table, subject to call was carried on a vote of 0 to 5. ; THE SHEEP JIEJf have not been idle. One Monday after noon last they held a convention at Salt Lake representing an invested capital cf 1, 500,000. They all agree if the legislation became the law of Utah it will stop the sheep industry. They draw pp a protest and forward it |
