Show WOOL GROWERS III HOLD SESSION I 4 4 Good Attendance at Associations Annual Meeting ENDORSE WAREHOUSE PLAN 4 BUCHER CON CONGRATULATES MEMBERS S The Utah tush Wool vi Growers association met in annual session mon ay fter noun noon at the city council chamber and transacted much business of import importance importance ance anee to the sheep industry The at attendance attendance was quite large and representative representative of all aU parts of oC the state Ex En Except Except the associate Il members of oC the ex en executive executive committee all of the officers were r elected without opposition In I his hia address President Jes Jesse Jeese e M sT 1 Smith spoke of oC the good results to the th wool growers of the state accomplished by the association since the last l st annual meeting He mentioned the fact that the members of th thc association n took an active part In the National Livestock associations convention in this city last January Januar and had helped helred materially to tomake tomake tomake make th the meeting a success The pros pres president ident urged the members who vrho are de in paying their dues to place in standing and thereby re replenish replenish replenish the treasury ury so that the means to maintain the legal rights of oC the wool growers may not be lacking Bucher Speaks Major George Geor F Bucher superintend superintendent ont eat wf of the Uintah forest reserve re iv responded upended to an invitation to make a few remarks He lie said that if it It had not been for tor the ellent organization of oC the u h W V overs association aa It would have haTe been Impossible to have put up the splendid fight last summer against t the closing of the reserve resene to grazing but through the efforts of this associations executive officers the thc threatened order had been rescinded by the interior department The major complimented the association on the faithful observance ob of oC the regulations regulation In the Uintah timber lands by the sheep grazers and because of oC this there had been but few complaints and no fires worth mentioning He believed that the government would consent to the t continuance of oC the grazing arrange next year in the reserve but to him the problem was how to permit head of oC sheep to be grazed when there was room for only two thirds that many manyA A vote of o thanks was tendered Major Bucher for Cor the Impartial discharge of or his duty as superintendent of the for forest forest est eat reser e Eastern Warehouse Scheme Weslei Wesle Pat 1 of oC Boston agent for the American Shep Sh ep Industry association was accorded the privilege of the floor to explain the th schem of oC making the Utah wool growers shareholders In the mutual association which has for its Us object the he maintaining of warehouses n a the eastern markets for Cor the sale of oC 1 ool without contracting with com corn commission mission agents and other middlemen whose whines Wh profits are very veTY erv large targe The plan struck the members as all being baing worthy of oC favorable consideration as RS a step to toward toward ward preventing unstable rates rutes and discrimination Mr Ir Pauls scheme heme S was ivas endorsed by b the th association and sev nil of members subscribed to stock n the association which will make the I he the sellers seller Of oC their own prod product net and retain t what is usually paid out In commission to middlemen The reports of oC Treasurer Pickard and Secretary Callister as approved by the executive committee showed In detail that the revenues for the year amount d to Including a balance on h nd of or and a disbursements amounting to 1 leaving in the treasury The larger part pert of the disbursements wa WRe w for fot legal expenses The delinquent list hat showed Chat that about seo 0 0 is due from numbers who pay pa paIt at It the rat rate of o 35 5 yearly early on each 1000 head or of sheep ow py jy y them themI t I Pr sd nt t Smith hogged tn to it hp ho rel vM f the du Ju I lit f t th I laiming that l he could no longer afford to devote so much attention to it as he had during I a tenure of five years But the mem members mem members bers hers declined to accept his declination de and put through a resolution offered by byE b bE byE I E P Ellison directing the executive committee to meet once a month and pUy phy p to the president all necessary ex en expenses he had Incurred in the perform performance performance ance of oC his duties and In addition to allow him a iL reasonable rea amount for his This done do the president accepted re no reelection election which had come com unanimously by acclamation Without opposition E H Callister was reelected secretary W tV V L Pickard treasurer and Heber Hebor A Smith vice president I The election of oC three associate mem members hers bers of ot the executive committee result resulted ed In the choice for James H Moyle E J Kearnes and E P Ellison Frank H Rudy RUd and Henry Harker Hanker were also for and came close to winning out It was agreed that all of ot the county vice Ice presidents now serving be declared reelected |