Show answered kanoski Kano sli M illard co utah 21 H 1902 editor yieu pice jaitee in iii missius of the 19 lolli th trist I 1 noll ceil a dipp lii the Iver news tile forest reserves guiv that arti ulc is all right the people should not permit tile the public lil in which we are nil ill interested to liu bo froidl 1 boin ocol occupancy palley tin cartiest curliest cur eart liest iest froest from froin tit sill tho I 1 to do not like your editorial conini comment ent on oil that beaver clipping and alid am frank enough to say so it tile ds of mah iro are to bo be closed eliut donld or tilt alic great huep Ind of 0 utah that trans fornin sat buyo huyo e brush and illiad scale into vash rash that so anally etli and times hines inore prosperous Is ph ig to drive the 4 olit of lift w a 1 I 1 would iwo to have you yoa ansi answer cr your anwer ls Is probably all right lor for your section and mille I 1 have ave nothing against 0 list personally poli so nally ally I 1 do to not like your attacks on oil thu the biilly ai A alsor the free fre aimee will just as cheerfully fu I 1 I 1 y gie gi ve apao e to 10 those views antagonistic to those held beh by tho the editor suitor of this paper is it will to 10 those who may indorse his opinion the pree prea lance columns will always a ways be wide apen to its readers for abe I 1 he discussion of any or till all subjects that are vital to theia welfare walf arp As shad eliad scale tind ond sage ruyh brush ore fire plentiful in tile the valleys tand mid very vi ry scarce on tile the witter water sheds hads it would strike th average cariner ft timer that P trot it I 1 just as WW 6 ra holed to ill 6 ceciel t rud ud valley desert deser tc As to what will ill become of lie sheep industry in III lie event of the exclusion of sheep from tile the watersheds the free lance refers the question to alic butone but one thing ia eure the tha water lieda of the llie state have become so bare of vegetation because of tile plants not being permitted 10 beed und and conditions be becoming bedimming worse with each passing year the eis ought to see that their industry is oue one of eventful self destruction the creation of forest reserves will merely anticipate tile the ending aud and thus save the farmei s prior rights right from froin total asiat from the fact that the free lance writer miter has warm warin personal persona 1 friends among M the sheep men it has no desire to fo destiny the sheep industry of utah milli there lire fire localities the state whore where but little harin will bei aei ione done let t hoge choie licali ies be occupied by us as many sheep its is can without over crowding and that must be the tha limit or of the industry it A 11 will rind find hu thu t free lance latch blatch hiring ou on tile outside if lie hy is not satisfied wilh we atie following v tin sw I 1 1 1 willell chwe we will label aabel SUE SHEEP E P V THE PEOPLE that thu the mountain foe forests ats fire aie it a necessity to agriculture in etith goes wit without it saying that undergrowth is as ciul vital viul to tilt the of moisture us i are the forest has been disputed b by Y ne arly nil fill the und find tacitly acquiesced in b by Y tile the fur farmers mers during t lie hie first few years bucce succeeding 9 the lauti launching ching of he sheep industry on a large scale scafe no appreciable deer pase in an the normal how of utah streams vas noticed sail some H twelve to fifteen years ngo the first serious so rious vo weal called led cloud IV lacown kwil to the white residents ri of utah at abc willinore fillmore Fil Fill linore tile the north fork foric of crack c wits was gut suttee the road destroyed ond nd consider considerable aule 1 due d I ue ne tore to res es s and farms as the hood ilori swept by during the next year the south frk fork was gutted nikl aud the residents of Fillmor edu order to reach timber and tul fael in iii the loutit allej were wen compelled to construct a road on oil the bauli backbone boue of one of the ridges almost simultaneously with thy the fillmore alood cloud bursts oc cured at alt pleasant manti aul other places ill li cou nty y abid with like disastrous results with each eacle ta year 7 tin nui 1 ni in proportion pi to the increase of the grenter greater area over which they have grazed g raised there tins hits been a corresponding 4 bonding of floods and ami lawt year with faul results in ill grat gnit 13 valley cou county n ty the oc currance of hoods floods with tile advent or of sheep the increate of floods in i fi frequency eq beti cy a aud nd a area rea with ti the i e i increase nerease of sliced and larger territory over which they t grazed was toc hoi a m ern it is well remembered by the older residents of utah ulah Ill ht lt twenty five nac years ago the were carpeted with vegetation today today the otice once thick undergrowth of grass and pla tits lifis has disappeared the groi round iDd train pled into dust sheep trails leadlow lead leading log diggon deagon U ally lly down the canyon sides fekkes to tile the str streams eains are arc everywhere every where in evi evidence deace aud and tho lie once beautiful f ua mountains have comparatively become ti a dubert in III order coshow the relation bet betheen veen grazing and floods tile the 41 t n t 41 art sisal d jin v arru c cess ary to describe the simple process by which nature the water ibrom ruin rain rind and snow any oue one at all observant hns noticed that as the falling drops of I 1 colst uro tire the leaves of oan a plant or blade of grabs they follow the branches down or bausk to the parent stem which conducts con duels tile the tiny ii to the earth then down beneath the surface where a hundred rootlets rootless root lets also net act as of kofl precious 1 moisture mois nol tuie sture to greater dept depths lis once beneath the sur I 1 face apparently insignificant drops can not by joining billions on billi billions of 01 similar drops become a de restating stating ve tit hood flood instead Ins tile the moisture percolates through the eat eaith tit until tiny liny underground streams are formed these mingle with other streams and ultimately faud some point of least resi ance where mingled ara crops pa burst forth in springs weeks week affer they thes had j fallen allen from bhe CI ik lt is a curious fact Must illustrating tating the wise previs prevision iob of nature its s be mere merc clia cliance cli anae uee that nearly all our mountain plants have leaves blanching upward from the parent stem and in such it as to furnish channels chan nels for carrying n water to tho the stem or central I 1 growth the drooping or sprawling variety of plants plan Is is rarely met inet in utah mount alm ales multiply tile the vegetation vege until tile lie in mountain sides are clothed life aud and hardly it a drop of rain will es cape a temporary burial A ted thus clothed with becomes an reservoir cost costin ilIg gj nothing hub but its tt protect protection joll f to 0 maintain and bends forth i acy countiss suh l streams weeks afler af ter tho the snow has bus dis disappeared appe L a rel fr i th deepest 1 canyons 1 another other advantage c of dense vegetation ii H i i found in ill aber ill erf acta ali at on storms beat down and press pi esp the dead plants to theearta the earth thus bonning nning fo iq n check to rain drops or we product of melting snow iii ur the ithe und for forcing chig it beneath the llie surface let those conditions condl lions be revier sed denude tho the mountains of vegetation both living and dead hare the foce of nature to ti tile the furious peri penni aill mill mih lions lione of small charp hoofs to trample the ground into duet then mark lie result thed u drops first strike the alic dust forni form globes rud nud nothing beneath bt neath the surface orto check their flow iloni descend the mountainsides in rivulets small streams i converge find borm bomi creek sm every groove and rushing onward ment meet in lw maidi chu auel i mighty 1 floi rents of oc witter suil soil and tons on oil tons ion of sheep knitli descend the cantony can vony lillius reservoirs servo irs with debris tearing tearl ng head gats and roads and rush by the darms whose givner helpless in their efforts c to control the augry hood flood tare for forced ed to stand helplessly helpless IV by while the preci precious blis moia turp is being worse than Mis wu then tuvia urn to their heir thirsty and perhaps blaine blomo providence forti fora condition which possibly pos silly toey have encouraged by their vole find and which is within their power to check a and n d filially remedy nor does the llie foregoing comprise all ft 1 thu the injury tha th water which once furnished moisture for the growth of forests forbat rushes by as aa torrents leaving all but the surface dry aud add lifeless feleys li with the result that except favored in icah flea the trees are starving for in moisture ois tu re that ii heep p i injure n jure tile the forests for osta is de ned by many flock masters who Q evade v ad e the charge by the cleel nation that sheep ivill not enec a pine lre ire nor iest the hie bark of a quaking isper aspen ll 11 they ought to it know that it altogether depereda depond de son on whether the pine Is full grown or merely emerging from the ilia ground arid and they ought to know low that a sheep dont know enough to avoid tra trum wp pling lingon on embryo trees and thus dest destroying toying ahem them when those same beep aze are trampling into tile the ground everything every ev ery thing else they cannot ordo or do not nol eat if any one require visual evidence us as to quaking asnen trees let him go above the fills falla in bullion canyon just west of marysvale Marys vale ale and sed eri tile the asp aspen en sap saplings linas that are girdled and denuded of leaves ns as high ca AS sheep oan can ind while there let them sully rie withe trampled I 1 earth dusty asa comate oun tuy toad and reflect on the results of only two weeks sheep grazing and the transformation of one olle of all the most beautiful acob in utah ulah into it a nauseous desolation nor is this all no nor the greatest greate an in jury that grazing has lone done tile the vast majority of the resi residental res identa deats of utah that hat sheep leave on oil the mountain sides and ads is s rolled and washed by the first rains down lown into the streams ahem in the did eddies eddie sand and on the he sand bars it lodges in hideous maales and under tho the hot summer sun festers rots and beconi i P boyes oses thus thua po pointing and poisoning the pure durest t water mittice ever i brewed for the use of man 1 lu very many of the towns of utah the 1 are forced to drink the sheep pointed water and Ui cre am all jirou bouder der that J typhoid V Lk fo faver ver and therill are fairing in ia mally of tile lie towns of utah beulah kiil lon life should by be ethehe the cfall of sill |