Show i Stewart Mackay Slate Wins Out I NU NO CHANGES IN Utah Wool Growers ti n Meet in Annual Conven Convention tion and Discuss Many Mat Matters Matters of Striking Importance THIRTY DIRECTORS ARE ELECTED IN AFTERNOON Action of Nevada Authorities in Taxing Utah Growers for Sheep Taken Across Line to Graze Is Roundly Scored ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT The W World orId Against Us was the title of a play enacted by the Utah Wool Growers association yesterday when its annual was held The day was spent in fighting ele elements elements ments that make life miserable for sheep men and wound up in a spirit spirited ed conflict between the and forces in which the latter won the election of nine nineteen nineteen teen directors of the association in insuring suring the reelection at to days ses session sion of the old officers The annual meeting was started In the theoffice theoffice office ot of the state board of sheep corn com commissioners missioners but there were too many dele delegates gates for the small quarters and an ad adjournment adjournment was taken to Kennedys hall ball hallin ballin in Postoffice place Here It was too cold and the delegates were driven out The convention was resumed In the afternoon at the Commercial club and the concludIng Ing session today will convene there at 10 this morning The whole day was Vas spent b by the dole dele delegates gates In discussing the forest service the ot of the government In the hand handling handling ling of disease and the action ot of Nevada In imposing an excessive tax on Utah sheep that range across the line Two tickets were put In t the e field and the slate was elected three to 9 ne e The he by w te at the meet meeting ing The forces rec 2710 of these and the fac faction faction tion received The foU following directors out ot of a field of at thirty were elected E H Callister Salt Lake John C Mackay Salt Lake C B Stewart Salt Lake Enos Bennion Vernal Day Parowan Thomas IV V Jones Salt Lake Henry Moss Davis county N S Nielsen Mt Pleasant John H Seely Seeb Mt Pleasant sant N P Aagard Mt Pleasant 1 L R B Anderson Mantl Manti F P Kesler Beaver county Hyrum McFarland Og Ogden Ogden den J R B Allen Draper J S Osler Nephi W A Oralie Craite Herriman Seth T Rigby Salt Lake James Robinson C jr George E B Austin Salt Lake Will Reelect Callister This board will wIH reelect today E H Callister president J 1 H Seely vice president and C B Stewart secretary and treasurer The following men were nominated and defeated Albert Smith Salt Lake Thorn Thom Thomas Thornas as Austin Salt Lake Jacob E Jensen Utah county James S Murdock Wasatch county count Ed Kearnes Salt Lake T J Chipman American Fork A K Hanson Sylvester Broadbent Thomas Sevy Sejo Pan Panguitch H G Ballard Thompsons W IV S Hanson Hansen Collinston At the opening of the morning session the gleam ot of battle was seen in almost every eye ea and before the business had progressed far it became apparent that internal warfare was not the only kind that would be waged for many a club was out for external forces Delegates shivered through the morning session and a hurry call caU was sent to the Commercial club with the result that Manager had Imd everything Continued on Page Two STEW Sl SLATE IE WINS OUT Continued from Page One ready leady for the afternoon session The club reaped raped a harest harvest ot of new members from among the wool growers who arrived on the nonresident special after Secretary Joseph E Caine had offered an eloquent Invitation Dr F E Murray of oC the bureau of at ani animal mat mal Industry opened the afternoon see ses ton non with a talk on Up lip and leg ulcerations He said that the ulceration found In sheep was a development ot of the old In a malignant form torm and he confirmed what State Veterinarian Young had said I at the morning session about quarantine of the sheep shep If the disease was not checked He advocated the separation ot of afflicted sheep Into hospital bands for forhand forhand hand treatment He indorsed Dr Youngs suggestion that expert sheep men be ep ap appointed pointed in ech each county to inspect sheep shep Several New Members Secretary Stewarts annual report showed that members had been added during the year swelling the t total tal to 26 The cash on hand Is 1375 In the current expense fund and In the stock fund An auditing committee corn com composed posed ot of Ed Kearnes J R B AIJen and J JC JC C Mackay was named to go over the ac accounts accounts counts Chairman L n B Andeson Anderson of the con COL on resolutions reported that his committee was unable to bring In a r re report port and asked that the time be extended a da day This was granted but later a m are ton tion was passed wiping out the committee and adopting the resolutions ot of the convention ot of National Wool Grow Growers ers era Sti stIll later this moton motion was reconsidered reconsidered ered and the committee was returned to tois morning is Its task wih with instructions to report this While the tellers were counting the bat bal ballots lots for directors some of at the delegates aired their grievances principally against the forest serice service Following a symposium of kicks President Callister said that al all who had no eom nt against the forest serice service should rise Ever Every one sat sti still I It was decided to hold a special meet meetIng lag Ing next year In Salt Lake just prior to the National Wool Vol Grower Growers convention at Portland giving the Utah delegates a chance to organize and to formulate their plans In the big convention The election ot of officers and other business of the Utah association wi will then b be gates transacted upon the return of the dele delegates delegates Presidents Addres Address President address opened the I morning session He spoke ot of the ot otter bet better ter relationship between the and tile the forest serice service and suggested that I the government men were willing t to ar differences The more concia concilia conciliatory tOr tory attitude toward the sheep bodes good for tor the wool growers of Utah who must use ot of the national forests for grazing lands He said that the misunderstanding tt that has existed be between tween the and the forest ser service Ic ice is being overcome an and out ot of the closer relations wi wilt come harmony harmon I 1 dont beleve believe that we should adver advertis tse this Up lip and le leg disease that is preva prevalent prevalent lent among sheep he said but I feel that If we have this disease among our sheep we should meet the conditions and eradicate the pest pest We dont want to have the stats state quarantined and that is what wi will happen If We dont adopt meas urs tires to wipe out the disease We know how to dip sheep up to tour four or five years ago We dipped te the sheep and then repeated the tho dipping in about thirty days The government experts told UI us to dip once and then repeat the dipping in hi from eleven to fourteen days days That has resulted In complete eradication of at scab The Tho experiments conducted by the government taught the a geat great leson lesson and saved aved us thou ot of dot dol dollars lars This association should take some steps toward disposing ot of predator predatory wid wild ani animals mals We have had a bunty bounty but but despie despite this system there are still more coyote coyotes than ever At one Ume there never was wasa a sheep killed In the timber by coyotes but now there are coyotes in the forests ot of 10 feet elevation Not unU until the gay gov government on the forest reserves cooperates with the stat state wl will te the coyote b be corn com completely wiped out out We have hae poisoned our ranges but the next season the coyote is back in geater greater numbers I It Itis is a stigma stigma upon our intelligence that we have not devised some means by which we cn can eradicate the wid wild anima animal pest Practical Man Needed We e ought to unite In an effort to pro pro procure cure the ot of a chief clet forester from among the practical men ot of the west west who wi will be fair In his dealings wih with the who wi will foster al alL ot of the large Industries that make for tor the uplift of at the state ad and at the same time preserve the Utah has some ot of the bt best sheep in the word world and Ime seam of our most enterprisIng men have gone across the ocean to get breeds until the Merinos and are famous In this state We dont want to destroy the industry these men inca have helped to build uP I President Callister was caled called away and Vice President J 3 I H Sely Body took the chair Secretary Stewart opened up a long de debate debate bate when he asked te the adoption of a resolution calling upon the government to appoint a new superVisor ot of the ManU Manti forest forest He said the supervisor had an announced d a reductio reduction of sheep that wi will willbe be permitted on the range in 1910 and despite a mas mass meeting of Sanpete couty county growers the forest serce service had Ig ignored nord nored gowers the sheep Interests ot of that section of te the state The resolution charged Su Supervisor Jensen with befogging the Is Issues issues sues and misrepresenting the actual fact facts to his superiors I It alo also charged that Jensen minimized the importance of te the shep sheep Industry saying that wool gowers growers were nomads and were not a part ot of the tho bone and sinew Qt f the community L L R It Anderson ot of ManU Manti said the su supervisor would not place the oh oft a par wih with eter cUter gower growers despite the fact that the revenue from sheep sheep owners In ManU Manti alon alone was 0 while from al all other sources the revenue was only Officials Are Arc Misled I John C Mackay ot of Salt Lake said that the forestry department had been con constantly misled by It its representatives on the f some for forest est eat to Aft Ator me G 4 I list ot of men defined as who exaggerate i their own Importance le lie sid said that semi of the foret forest supervisors thought they were bigger m men n than Unite United States sn sei and they snubbed the people who grazing had to rely lands on rere reserves tO for a Pr part ot of their F C Jensn Jensen ot of ManU anU brought the gen generl general erl eral complaint mr more t to tM the pint point when he said that he u used t to be allowed to lO graze 80 hed head of shee sheep on th the foret forest range but that number hAS been cut to the maximum ot of 2 r wih with a l pr per reduction promised for 10 The rhe yoking the woes ot of tIle the Sanpete growers was wa adopted by the elation and gower wi will b be sent t to the depar depart meat ment at Washington where Whre te the personal attention ot of A A F Potter wi will b be 1 I it according to hi his promises made i t Ogden bore before he left to take up the jot jub of Chit chief forter 1 L Ph It Andersn Anderson E L Clark Clark Enos Be it nion F C Jensen Jenen and Ger George Austi five of the most prominent wol wool gow gowin growers in the state were a commit committee on resolutions and lter later in the da day th made a report after thoroughly thresh threshIng Ing out several mater matters Nevada Discrimination stewart cle called attention tr to tL ti fact that Nevada authoritIes are Utah gowers growers O cents a head for tt shep sheep that are taken the lne line t gaze graze In Nevada He aske asked that the wat nia watter ter b be investigated and tt that I if it was state law to have an te the Uth Utah officials cal call upon the Neada Nevada officials for tor an ex cx I It developed however tbt Lincoln county develop Noya Nevada a Is the only one which Imp imposes this high tax on sheep while the other counte counties along the borde border charge the customary fee or of i cents a hed head Grazers who rn run sheep across the Ine line l 03 tat that Elko county charge charges only S 5 cents while Lincoln county oun y charges cents The Te power Is vested ested the tho county commissioners Te The matt F wi will be Invest investigated ate and taken up P the proper authorities Secretary Stwart Stewart replied to criticisms that he lie had ben been going about the state for tor ulterior motives in th the interests of lip Ip and leg ulcerations and he sid said that I and Dr A A C Young te the state eteri eter arian arlan ha had done 5 so merely in the t tat of at the shep sheep men and not In the of their ow own welfare or for any reasons He sid said federal officials ha d 1 told him that th the state woul would b be qua If some action was not taken I 1 I Ithe the sheep men and It was wa to spur them themon themon I on that he beme became active Dr Young adde added hl his waring warning that te teI I I state would b be quarantIned by the gl g eminent i if some action was not tak J He sd sad that no dipping or would cure the leg ulcerations but that tha L the sore muth mouth ofte often col could b be cured by bya a change of fO food The which rt rots tie the fet feet bd had become s so malig malignant nant that drastic measures mt b be used The association passed I a re lut i 1 showing Is Its confidence In t th state vet et as s well Wel as in the secretary t by tanking thanking them for thEir their work |