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them on. Still you mny realize something from them — hut only in one 

 way that I can conceive of — and that is to kill them off and sell their 

 hides to be converted into leather. In short, get rid of your scrub stock 

 of every sort at the best advantage offered. With the opportunity 

 offered by the importation into our county of thoroughbred cattle, and 

 of first-class horses, for the purpose of propagating, there is no excuse 

 for any one failing to procure graded cattle and horses in every way 

 suitable for farming and other purposes, and that will at any time com- 

 mand remunerative prices, either sold at home or sent elsewhere for that 

 purpose. Look at our neighboring county in the State of Oregon, and 

 recollect the length of time back in which she has supplied us more or 

 Jess with good horses — and to this day it is the fact that purchasers 

 seeking good horses for farm purposes, or even fancy stock, go into 

 Jackson Count}* to make their purchases; all of which is a dead loss to 

 us, for the reason that the money necessarily expended in making these 

 purchases is distributed elsewhere, instead of being paid out to us, and 

 thereby brought into general circulation in our midst; and for this, you, 

 my farmer friends and stock raisers, have no one to blame but your- 

 selves — the result of your want of reflection, your carelessness, and your 

 indifference on the subject. 



There has been and still seems to be an antagonism between cattle 

 and horse breeders and sheep owners in the county, for the reason that 

 cattle and horses will not, it is stated, feed on the same range with 

 sheep. I shall leave this matter to be reconciled between you as best 

 you may be able to, believing that whenever it is deemed to be profitable 

 to you to breed sheep, that sheep raising will be engaged in by you to 

 whatever extent you may deem it advisable, whether on a great or small 

 scale, without regard to whether it suits the breeders of other kinds of 

 stock or not, as there can be no class legislation on this subject, excluding 

 any kind of domestic animals from the limits of this or any other county 

 in the State. The importance of the wool-growing interest is known 

 to you all. The statistics, State and National, furnished on this subject, 

 show that it is a great and increasing source of material wealth, and to 

 dismiss this branch of my address let me urge upon you, that should 

 you incline to this branch of industry, by all means procure the best 

 stock of the various improved breeds that you can obtain, for we have 

 too man}- of the mangy and scabby kind already. 



There is another branch of industry which has been entirely and 

 utterly neglected in this county, and }*et our friend Judge Tolman, of 

 Oregon, has shown and actually demonstrated to us that it may be 

 followed to advantage. Why, then, is it that the tanning trade has not 

 been engaged in? You j^ossess the same facilities therefor that he does — 

 the material for the process is furnished in abundance on every hillside. 

 A read}* sale for hides could be furnished at your very doors, and thereby 

 a traffic would spring up amongst yourselves, and money could be kept 

 in the county, when, as matters now stand, you deplete your own finances 

 by being compelled, for the want of energy and good judgment, to 

 purchase from abroad, thus sending money out of the county which 

 could be retained and distributed amongst ourselves. What reason is 

 there for his conducting this business so successfully, as evidenced by 

 his continuance thereof, that would not hold good iu case you should 

 undertake it? Have you not the same facilities for employing skilled 

 operatives in the business that he has? There is no reason why this 



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