Show editorials E IT 0 by PRO WENT ENT CARBON COUNTY MEN WN artt i r T OVER GRAZING AND ITS RELATION TO FLOOD MENACE by nutter CARBON COUNTY la KACI collel tIR intent flood floods in carbon county have brought the roest lor of flood control before the people of this eclen sect ivri more vald ly than ever before at As am old lime time sell settler er and cow tow min 1 I can an perhaps be pardoned for giving a little history and information relating to 4 how I 1 have fian cn the flood increase with overgrazing until now flood floods are a commer occur ance I 1 have been beer a settler in this country for jot 30 30 years I 1 A teen eta sheep on OR the mountain ranges Oer overgraze graze the land aa an it li Is my opinion that this overgrazing with iti its mesut nt death of much vegetation atlon which cause floods of the scope of of in 1027 I 1 am of the opinion that this alone ti is a large factor in the floods houts ato and mind in general which have been on the increase in erca with the pair iii yea years many of the he sheep men argue differently but to the ob oft IM server er who haj has 11 laj 1 d ii in this country for many it ail I 1 has ba ved the dunging condition COL dillons of the country the ft ault it Is obvious an one familiar famili nr with ith sheep ranges and one ohe who has ha traveled them can testify to the packed condition of the ground surface and anti t taj tale ith which trails are formed on the hillside and the level country coti atry alike this cor coi ditlow Preen prevents ts ire rainfall fron from penetrating kunning of rapidly it erodes ending in largo arge flood streams I 1 am all going to refer particularly to a portion of tir tilt country adjacent to price which wai was formerly known ai a I 1 mma park and which aich is now 1 whitmore park in the sui lun j mer of 1690 1696 1 I trailed trilled 1500 head of tena stra from kanal to strawberry valley to the head of the hevier evier li down thit thi t filet to grass valley and from there to castlio valley alley citero itero s the price river to wellington ellington an and d thence ija ip coal ercek creek t f frima park my me mess wagon bame up soldier canyon 1 tl I enee through the pirk p irk at that time one could arho a lagoa over leui lel country through to willow nev encountering a ravine or arraje vegetation was wa rank bay hn could be harvested etl anywhere any here on the plains or on on flat the earth wai aas oft soft and rain scaled soaked into the ground today the contrast ie is alar alarming aung abere acre the road w wil is formerly from 1 ww 1110 creek to boedler canyon is today toda one could cot not drive drle any ort sort of a it nt at all nhep it Is I 1 to with witt mow snow travel in bree b ree back become becomes bay ird oui there are kanj man ravines and wish kiei out outs aal if it a horse shoals make a misstep mil step and etc step into one the rider life would be endangered N its hat t has 1123 rained caused th chainge and telony bothin nothing led less than overgrazing over izing I 1 I 1 would like tn to CA tali the attention of my readers to the range the mountain lying north and east of hun hull several yean years the utah iniel company ia id having this mountain withdrawn from entry simply to pro tt the sunnyside Sunny side LI livestock estock are not on the bount mountain aln or on an range creck west of the th utah fuel put corn com pan 9 pump ng station through the efforts of this corn com pany to protect thia this section the vegetation ege tation there has in creased and ana notwithstanding the decisive rainfall there are to disastrous floods in that section another I 1 should hk likos to make is my rattle cattle range and ft arrange range owned by the I price irice rice commercial end god baang bank my M range la is east and south of range reek treek and on range valle alle mountain where A here sheep are sot not allowed to graze and the property ProD erty of tho the bank adjoin adjo ini my and ii eased to sheep interests although tho this bank bas has been in control of this range for only five f ire yet rs to it li a desert compared with my range which has box been in vw use for twenty seven seen year years the problems of the price kiver mier watershed nater Ater shed I 1 can offer no so lulon for my sly understanding of he the situation ahro t is that there is a great beal eal of privately lately pr owned land which would not ie te under fer regulation the present attempt on th part of the chamber of commerce to start an in educational program to tr it to tit get the matter cleared away appears to me to be lie a mo movement lement which should be given support U t tie te pr tant nt time wo we arc ire confronted with the same sort of situation in the argyle and nine nice mile districts district and if the present tendency to overgraze in that locality continues thorp there will be no land left on tho creeks almost arav disastrous fools f oo 00 Is result from tile lie a at the creams source I 1 ara am heartily in divor ut of any increment mt may be F ancel ta I 1 ilace late f x restriction etrie estrict tion ion on overgrazing my opinion is that if it this ran can not be by educational jeaa ures utes that it donld should ie bt made possible tible by legislative enact act |