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Show W00LGROWERS SEEK TEN-YEAR HERD PERMIT Uinta Grazing Association Discusses Plans With Forest Officials. Whether or not a ten-year grazing graz-ing contract on the Uinta national forest can be secured by members of the Uinta Grazing association was the paramount issue at a meeting of. forest service officials and members of the executive board of tho association at the Hotel Roberts, Monday. While the question will probably have to be gone over by the district forest supervisor, R. II.- Rutledge, every effort is being made to lo away with tho necessity of making new contracts every year by the 300 members of tlie association who run nearly 200,000 head of sheep on the forest area. Questions of distribution of the sheep over the entire area were also considered In connection with other minor regulations regu-lations in tlie new grazing rules. James A. Hooper, secretary of the Utah Wool Growers association was also present at the meeting. In reference to general conditions throughout the state,- Mr. Hooper said that the sheep business never looked brighter, and that it looked very promising for the next three or four 'years at least. Range conditions were said to be holding up remarkably well despite the drought during ' the summer, aud that few losses have been reported re-ported to date. Several growers have been feeding corn to date, but the practice is not general, it was said. ;The full of snow was not too heavy, and gives promise of better grazing. The cold snap, while it was very severe, did not last long enough to cause serious damage. Members of the association present pres-ent at the meeting were H. W. Harvey, president, of Heber ; M. A. Smith of Salt Lake, William Coleman, Cole-man, Heber ; Sid Nichols, American Fork. J. R. Allen of Draper was also present. The forest service was represented represent-ed by Ernest Winkler, assistant district dis-trict supervisor from Ogden ; J. Raphael, Ra-phael, supervisor of the Uinta forest; for-est; W M. ' Campbell,- assistant supervisor, and Forest Rangers E. J. Adair, Parley C. Madsen, . George C. Larson and Charles All'rd.i ! . |