Show AIMSOf UTAH CATTLE MEN Pressing Salt Lake For the Next Convention ENCOURAGED BY TEE MOUNTAIN STATES Utah Delegates Warmed Up Over Debate On Representation I Second Days Session of the LiveStock I Live-Stock Convention Cession of Arid Lands Governor of Wyoming Raps the Land Office Future of Cattle Business Presented I Optimistic t Op-timistic Light By An Editor Committee On Legislation Special to The Herald Dpnvpr Color Jan 26 The last of the Utah delegation to the live stock convention did not get in until this morning haying been unable to leave un the regular train which brought the I I big delegation yesterday Utah las sent fully 150 cattle and sheepmen to the convention The Utah delegation is one of the best ever seen in Denver I is composed in a large measure of young men many of whom were born in Utah and have cast their lot for life in the region beyond the Rockies The visitors scattered on reaching the city and the registers of the hotels do not show the names of more than half of the Utah delegates M K Parsons chairman of the Utah delegation is at the Albany hotel UTAH WILL WARM UP Utah said he this evening has no special kick and no pressing demands at the present time As the convention conven-tion work advances it Is possible hat ve will begin to warm up and take sides on questions presented before the I gathering Utah has at the present time not more than 125000 cattle withIn I with-in her borders During the last year half of the cattle in the state were dls posed of and cattlemen are gradually retiring from the business Many of I them are going into the sheep business I as Utah is essentially a sheep country The large plains furnish pasturage in the winter and the mountains are unexcelled celled for pasturage in the summer We 1 have probably 2500000 sheep I DEBATE ON REPRESENTATION The Utah men did warm up tonight to-night during the discussion on representation repre-sentation to future meetings of the permanent per-manent live stock interstate organization organiza-tion The report of the committee recommended rec-ommended that representation be one delegate for every 10000 head of stock of any kind The Utah men wanted it made one delegate for 10000 head of cattle < 1 horses and one delegate for every 30000 head of sheep After a long fight the three to one proposition of the Utah men was voted down A J Gregory live stock agent of Salt Lake is here to his City keep popularity pop-ularity with the western boys warm and Is succeeding He says the carload rates are restored to stay this time WORKING FOR SALT LAKE The Salt Lake delegation are working like beavers for the nest meeting They have opposition from Kansas City and Omaha and the Denver men want i too claiming that as headquarters will be here and this point is the most centrally located for next year at least the cciivfnticn should meet here Omaha of course wants another meeting meet-ing this year during her exposition This is a strong card but it has not I much weight with Texas and mountain states delegations The Salt Lakers are encouraged by the support of part of the Colorado I delegation who prefer their city for the next meeting The Montana and other I mountain states it is believed will state i wI go solidly for Salt Lake while Texas will probably be split between the different elements SECOND DAYS SESSION I Governor of Wyoming Raps the Public j i I Pub-lic Land Office Denver folo Jan 26 Chairman j Springer called the National Stock I I Growers convention to order at 101 I oclock this morning There was a full oco attendance of delegates I A committee was chosen of one from I each state represented to draft legislation j I legis-lation and bylaws These on the com mittef Texas McKenzie Kansas J W Johnson Idaho J D Wood Oregon Ore-gon R C Judson Utah Jesse A Smith Missouri J H Neff Nebraska A M Saughtery Michigan H H HInds South Dakota F A Stewart I Montana Paul McCormack Wyoming W C Irving Iowa Henry Wallace I Illinois C W Baker Arizona W C j Barnes Indiana 1 E Harley Minnesota I Min-nesota George M D Flower Colorado I E 1 Ammons I PROSPECTIVE CONDITIONS I The first address was on Statistics as to Values of Live Stock and Prospective j I Pros-pective Conditions by J H Neff editor I edi-tor of the Drovers Telegram Kansas I City The speaker review the history i of the stock growers business for the past 15 years showing that the industry indus-try which was on the down grade for a number of years reached bottom a couple of years ago and has since been I Improving Figures are given to show that prices are now more than 200 percent per-cent above the lowest point of a few years ago He expressed the fear that stocking and feeding cattle are now bringing more money than they will bring in the market when fattened What is true of cattle he asserted is also true of sheep horses and hogs ARID LANDS Governor R A Richards of Wyoming next spoke on The Cession of the Arid Public Lands to the States j Governor Richards teok the position i that not only the arid lands but all i the public lands should be given to the j i states They would then he claimed v son be made to help pay government II expenses and sooner be put in the J hands of actual settlers Speaking of I s the arid lands he said I r t 1a od htSt 5 I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way for us to work out our salvation and that Is through the transfer of the lands to the several I states and then make It a matter of patriotism or state pride to make the most nossit of the donation The only objection which ever has been J urged Is not based ou facts Out on a t belief that the states themselves are I not to be trusted Those who assume this position also assume that the administration ad-ministration o the national land of flee is efficient and satisfuoiorv J believe be-lieve they are a much mistaken in j their belief regarding the lirst as they 1 are enoneous concerning the facts of the second UNMITIGATED FAILURE The truth Is that the administration of the general land office In the disposal dis-posal of arid lands and in its neglect to do anythin for the conservation of the Water has been an unmitigated I failure Two bills for the cession of the lands have been introduced in the j I present congress one by Congressman j Shafr th of Colorado and one by Congressman I Con-gressman Hartman of Montana The I present commissioner of the general I I land office opposes both these bills and if his reports are any indication whit oppose1 any measure providing for the I I transfer of these lands to the staTE < Governor Richards said the mo iey received re-ceived from the pale of public lan shad s-had been very largely used in states otherthan those In which the lands were situated to the advantage of the I older fta at the expense of the younger I o TIMBER LANDS Continuing he said Every arid state ought to control its timber lands The states now control the streams which rise therein they ought to be given the opportunity to protect arid preserve the fountains which feed these streams I we are to judge the future by the past the continued control of the timber lands by the general government govern-ment means the continuation of thir spoliation and destruction Every reserve re-serve thus far made has simply icnulted in stopping mining preventing the construction con-struction of roads the building of reservoirs res-ervoirs Of ditches in laying an embargo on all development and in 101ng nothing noth-ing whatever to protect the foiests from fire the chief agent of Iheir destruction de-struction ft is the desire of the arid states to secure a class of settlers who will engage in agriculture it is nscesssary that stete aid in some form should be afforded them Reservoirs should be constructed and maintained by the state and the waters distributed understate under-state supervision LEASED LANDS That the leasing of these lands I would follow the cession of the public lands to the states the recent ptptri once of Wyoming hasdemonstrated In satisfaction of the donations cf land to the state upon Its admission t < the Union grazing lands iai been principally prin-cipally selected Svry acre has been leased at a annual rental of i cents per acre Ewood Mead state engineer of Wyoming Wy-oming spoke on how best to prevent clashing between sheep and cattlemen Ion I-on the ranges He favored leasing cr all public lands and breaking up of I ranges PS a means of preventing constant con-stant warfare between cattlemen and cattemen I sheepmen R M Allen of Amos Neb delivered an address on the fattened steer I AFTERNOON SESSION The afternoon session opened with a I seriesof papers on contagious diseases affecting values of live stock I Df Charles Gresswell state veterin 1 arian of Colorado read the first paper i I treating the best methods of prevention l pre-vention of contagitfus dlseases hr stbck He took the po ito that the government govern-ment should maintain proper quarantines I Quaran-tines and make experiments in methods of preventing and subduing disease H severely condemned patent medicines asa I as-a general rule Dr A T Peters of the University of i Nebraska spoke on Advancement in Controlling Diseases He treated largely of the various methods of vaccination varous I cination which he held to be the most effective system of fighting disease in live stock Ticks in Texas was the title of a paper on spelentic fever by Victor A Norgaard of Washington D C He reported that experiments in dipping dip-ping cattle infected with ticks in parra fine oil had proved successful in fne oi preventing pre-venting the spread of the fever and I he believed the process of vaccination would within n year to a great extent ex-tent solve the whole splenetic fever I problem l1 E Knowles state veterinarian of Montana treated the subject of Glan I ders He declared that the disease Is more common than is generally believed be-lieved and that as it is transmissible to man every effort should be used in stamping it out by the extermination of all aniirals known to be infected SHEEP Richard Gibson of Ontaria Canada spoke on sheep in England and Canada Can-ada He gave figures to show the profitableness profit-ableness of sheep raising He gave considerable con-siderable attention to the methods of feeding and care of lambs asserting that in many cases lambs had been made to gain an average of threequar tars of a pound a day from birth till ready for market He declared that English methods not only furnished the most rapid growth but the best quality qual-ity of meat George F Wallace of New Mexico declared that no country produced finer wool than the United States I CATTLE STEALING W S Seavey of Utah offered a reso lution calling upon the governors of Utah Wyoming and Co rado to appoint I ap-point a Jonit committee to investigate the alleged wholesale and repeated cattle I cat-tle and sheep stealing by organized robbers rob-bers In the section of country including I I northeastern Utah southwestern northeatern Wyo Jo ining and northwestern Colorado F J Berry of the Union Stock Yards Chicago spoke on The UptoDate Horse and the Export Demand He asserted that electricity and the bicycle bi-cycle had destroyed the demand for small horsas but that demand for large first quality animals is better than j I ever and such horses bring good prices j at all timos I j The constitution and bylaws were adopted The National Live Stock Association of the United States of America was the name chosen The representation at the annual conventions conven-tions is to include state delegates at j large and representatives from stock < associations commission exchanges i associations chambers of commerce and irrigation I |