Show horace L allred sends requested statement dear governor cimpl complying ing with your request statement ement for a statement as to how the conz con dillons referred to by district attorney delaney of colorado affect our locality I 1 will say that our condition here Js is very similar teethe eonda tiona in northwestern colorado except that with us in the farming and cattle raising game we are without any other use ot of the public domain other than the forest reserves forced to keep our stock on our farms about sev seven en months out of the year making it impossible to grow cattle economically if our public lands were under government control and handled similar to the way the forest reserves are handled liand led it would only be a few years until we could gra graze our cattle another four or five months in ili the low lands making it possible to produce calves or feeder steers at a very much lower price and leave a profit I 1 have hare in mind a particular range in utah where I 1 was running cattle in 1905 or about the time the national forest was created at that time the range was so completely killed out from overgrazing er that our cattle barely held their flesh during the summer today on this same range a steer will in an ordinary summer gain around pounds or at our very low prices today amount to 1000 per head practically all of this can be credited to 25 years of 0 efficient range management and I 1 see no reason why the same results would not be gotten gottell it if our spring fall fail and winter ranges were properly bandied hand band lea led I 1 am not in favor of oc state control of part of the range and the government errun ent controlling the forest reserves neither do I 1 think that utah should take az aa a girt gift all these barren stretches and undertake to them with no help from the government I 1 would say that it if we are ever to undertake to handle these matters that the government should put the remaining lands under control and manage them until such time as they would begin to spay their way and then their turn over forest and all but rather than that even I 1 would prefer government chirol cc Irol of f all grazing on oil ranges where it is is necessary to graze both sides ot of al a state lino line I 1 am afraid their would be considerable trouble from conflicting regulations referring to the matter of grazing homesteads I 1 feel very much as mr air delany that very few were ever taken in good faith and certainly no one could hope to make a living on a acre grazing homestead tile the best of the homesteads I 1 have known of support more than about 30 20 to 40 head bead of cattle the year around I 1 consider this public land problem of vast importance to the future of the livestock and farming business in utah and re gret very much that their more interest shown by our stock men I 1 want to thank you tor for your interest in this matter and assure you of my willing support in matters of this kind I 1 I 1 am very truly yours 11 II L ALLRED |