Show BASIN experiment ST 1 MON range problems and control of the public domain discussed by livestock raisers and farmers august 16 and 17 were observed as field days at the great basin experiment zt station aaion of alu forest service in the alie canyon 12 miles ariles cast of ephraim approximately bitely livestock men from all counties count fes of utah were in attendance the program consisted of inspection spec tion of the experiments be being ing conducted by the forest service under tire the direction of C L forsling director of the station the excursion excursion left ephraim at 9 on the morning of the first fay and stops were wem made at var various louz places in the canyon to observe a spring fall range early summer range ang artificial reseed and cattle range improvement waters watershed lied protection badly depleted runge langre with good soil but improvement slow because of prior poor grass seed supply anil and range showing material improvement under regulated use in the evening a big campfire program was held at station headquarter headquarters in efin meeting the control of the public domain 1 was discussed a af length lecig th by ca congressman n don B colton S M borgert en sen of salina speaker of the house of representatives representative at the last legislature ff AV harvey president and J A hooper secretary of 0 the utah Wool grovers growers association R IT rut ledge edge district forester W R chap lam lain inspector ot of grazing range rt research director wm win peterson of the utah experiment station J 31 mcfarland president of the utah cattle growers association and wm win bailey farmer of nephi this meeting was adjourned until the following morning when it was resumed at 8 and continued for two hours at the morning session speaker jorgensen was chairman of the meeting and cren c en eral discussion di prevailed after which the following motion was passed that this body of livestock nien men go on record as being in favor of control of the public domain and that this meeting g i in in s deion sion assembled is in favor of administration of the same by the federal government A committee as appointed to work out further recommendations to submit to representative don B colton the personnel of the committee is wm win peterson H W harvey J A hooper J ill mcfarland senator W D grandland Crand land of mt pleasant L R anderson andersen of manti david N beal of ephraim INI S winder of salt lake city lee R taylor of payson wm bailey of nepal A petition was also passed requesting the federal government to appropriate more money for grazing research m in the mountain state the gathering was a representative one including prominent men and livestock raisers from all sections of the he state forest supervisors forest rangers county agents and representative of the biological survey officials of them the experiment station provided food and tents for the entire group everyone left the station at noon on the second day feeling well repaid for the trip and praising the hospitality of superintendent forsling and his official staff those in attendance from sevier county were ere S ba M jorgensen P C and H C williams of salina salim G A staples of central W C ellis ellia Q david hansen and S R boswell of richfield |