Stockmen Critis Criticize Ze Chamber of Commerce By D. D C. C Dix Db in b the Salt Lake Trib Precipitated by speeches made atthe at atthe atthe the annual banquet on New Years Year's Eve and by the launching of the 1935 program of the Cedar City Chamber of ot Commerce prominent livestock interests In Interests In t rests of southern Utah charged th the chamber with being unfair to them and threatened the withdrawal of their financial and moral support If the chamber continues on what they termed term term- ed its sided one policy polley For a long time civic organizations and particularly the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce have htwe been accused ac ac- cased of or promoting recreational tourist tourist tour tour- 1st and sporting facilities to the detriment detriment detri detri- ment and exclusion of the agricultural and livestock interest Members of the Southern Utah Livestock association charged that the persistent with dra al of grazing areas for use as public camps camps' and parks had seriously handicapped this Important industry j According to President Reuben J J. J Shay of the local chamber this long loni known feeling of the livestock growers was as emphatically expressed when he was Informed that the livestock Industry was threatening to withdraw all sup sup sup-j I 1 port of the chamber of commerce nod nud to actually wage a fight to prevent further exploitation of their rights and privileges for recreational pur pur- poses Protests were ere made by the sheep sheep- men and cattlemen at the time th Un th Cedar Breaks area was as taken from the forest service and made a national monument The withdrawal of numerous numerous num num- erous tracts for the building of ot public camps and recreational areas has hasfurther hasfurther hasfurther further enhanced the resentment At the annual me meeting ting on New Years Year's eve much was said of the value of Utah's big game and the necessity of protecting the industry This together to together together to- to gether with a suggestion that an application application ap ap- be filed asking that a preserve pre serve be created on the west desert for the propagation and protection of ofa ofa ofa a small herd of antelope to range in western Iron county ha has hasi 1 brought a barrage of criticism from the livestock industry resulting In the i action taken toward the chamber of or Commerce The question of the disposition disposition dis dis- position of Cedar City's small elk herd herdon herdon herdon on Cedar mountain was the cause of considerable friction in the same dl di- di direction but was finally considered a victory for the livestock men when the herd was ordered exterminated Mr Shay stated however that the charges made by the livestock Interests Inter inter- esta ests were hardly Justified in view of the fact that one of ot the ranking and Important standing committees committees' of his organization was an agricultural and livestock committee headed by County County Coun Count CountI ty Agent Lamont Lament E E. E He also I said that this committee had sponsored sponsored spon many Important projects to bet better ter tet the livestock and agricultural inu in interests and would continue to do d so u