Show a X I THE CATTLE CONVENTION 0 The stockmen have not been able to do anything regarding the organization of I associations for mutual protection against the depredations of cattle and horse thieves nor for any other purpose The trouble has arisen out of the fact that there were two factions and both were hostile the one to the other The thing which seems to have originally divided I them was the matter of leasing the public pub-lic domain although there never was any chance of Congress passing any act whereby the leasing could be done The party headed by Mr Faust was against the leading and the one headed by Mr I Jennings was in favor oftt and had gone so far as to incorporate the theory into its constitution and bylaws and at first insisted in-sisted that its organization should be adopted as a Territorial one This Mr I Faust and his party refused ttf do and asa as-a consequence nothing has been done and those who came to the city from the country and their ranches have been 1 greatly disgusted and had their time and money wasted Many who came here strangers have felt that they would be putting themselves forward if they were to give expression to their views and so withheld them and in place of having listened to any views frojn any one they have been entertained With wrangles and expressionsof personal spite from those who should have known something about stock interests But this is not the worst Last fall the various railroads extended to the stockmen of Utah courtesies that were almost princely and with two conventions con-ventions sitting for three days not a single 1 man has moved a vote of thanks to the railroads and from only one man have j we heard that it was due as well from up I predation as from selfrespect Will the i railroads be so anxious to again extern courtesies to men who do not even acknowledge ac-knowledge them And will the stockmen I get the same terms for transportation thaI tha-i I would have been given them had the simple sim-ple civilities of everyday life been observed I ob-served But these fire things which I directly affect stock raisers and indirectly indirect-ly affect the whole Territory Stock interests in-terests in Utah can be made much greater than they now are and will add greatly tour our wealth although we can never hope to rival the vast pampas of Texas or the I plains of Wyoming While we can not do this yet such associations as have been proposed would further a great industry in-dustry and by the interest whichever cattle raiser would have in the cattle cat-tle and horses of all members of the associations as-sociations all would be much more protected pro-tected than they now are There is i something P some-thing to be gained also in the formation of these associations from the rivalry there would be in each member striving to surpass his friends in the raising of finer stock than they and there would bean be-an interchange of ideas as to what breeds were best adapted to our ranges and the most approved manner I of handling and rearing stock If founded they should be to live stock improvemen what the guilds of the Middle Ages were to manufacturers Probably the greatest present benefit would be in the suppression suppres-sion of thieving or at least in greatly lessening les-sening it which heretofore has been the most active part of the business and the one that must first of h ill be done away with to begin any other improvement It 1 iii to be hoped that something will be done in the matter Since writing the above the party headed by Mr Faust has organized independently in-dependently of the other and this really leaves l things as they were The exist ence of two organizations for this one object ob-ject is to be regretted |