Show WOOL GROWERS IN CONVENTION One Thousand Sh ep Men in Attendance at es sion at ii MIDWINTER OME SOME RUDE JOLTS FOR ESTRY BUREAU Pocatello Ida Jan 14 One thousand attended the opening session of the National Wool Growers convention In this city today and listened attentively to a bitter arraignment of the federal forestry forest bureau by b President Qt Fred Fr W Gooding of Shoshone Declaring that th t the Ute government in Its administration of f the national forests and of the reclamation service has hns failed woefully President Gooding urged d that the congress be Tie asked to name a committee of oJ western men to investigate and report arty needed changes chanes in the rules and regulations governing these two to bureaus In support Of his contention that evils eils exist in federal control of the i printed public domain President compared the results attained under the operation of 0 the Carey act by b the west western era ern states stales with what he asserted was a miserable failure the thi part of or the gov government government in reclaiming the arid west by bythe bythe bythe the reclamation sc City Crowded A crowded croWded city dt marked the opening day dy of the convention tp to noon 1000 dele delegates delegates gates and visitors had registered at head heid headquarters quarters From nearly nt every eNY state dele delegates delegates delegates gates are arc present The biggest bg t single del delegation delegation arrived this morning from Boise coming direct from the adjourned ses sea sessions sessions aloha of the Idaho State Wool Growers association Accompanying the Idaho party were Governor Brady Brody and a delegation delegation tion Lion of state stat officials also about half the members of both houses of the state legislature The forenoon session of or the convention was devoted entirely to the midwinter sheep shE p show It Is the united opinion of delegates to the Pocatello gathering that the 1903 show allow sho is ts the biggest and best straight sheep show over ever CV r held in America Over GOO steep sheep are entered e From the opening hour of 9 until noon the exhibit hall hail was crowded Bucks are on exhibition which cost as high as 2600 In the thoroughbred classes there are some of the winners of blue rib ribbons ribbons bons bone at the international show at Chi Chicago Chicago cago tago the Derby event of the live stock world Addresses of Welcome At 2 the opening business ses sea session session sion of the convention was held Gover Governor nor J II H Brady Brad in an address of wel welcome welcome welcome come in behalf of the state said he lie firmly believed in the of a protective tive tariff on raw materials and provoked laughter when he said he would like to invite the wool men to the cooling shade of trees In forests were It not for the fact that the reserves are bare of trees In behalf of the city Mayor Loux wel welcomed welcomed corned the delegates and Colonel E J Ball Bali of oC In responding sounded the keynote of the convention when he said Shot at Pinchot Gifford Pinchot has laid had control of or something like acres of land He failed to get control of or acres which was fortunate for the western pee peo people pIe Where here I live we were ere all afraid to own land and tried to get rid of what we wo possessed One man there who owned a vast ast tract was held up to the public as a bad citizen and dangerous Last year he divided his holdings and sold the property to 00 farm farmers farmers ers era of the east representing about 2000 2 persons person This we have ascertained R Is III more mort than the forestry forestI bureau hureau has done for the home in more mort that than five Oe years with cx acres at their command President Fred W Gooding delivered his annual address Joseph E B Wing of Mechanicsburg 0 O eastern vice president was unable jo be present and his address was read by W WW Ww W V Burch Durch of Chicago At 5 the convention adjourned until tomorrow morning at 1 I Denver Ogden and Albuquerque are in inthe Inthe Inthe the race for the 1910 1510 meeting i if iT f T |