Show HOPE TO Kill BURKHART BURHART BilL Utah Delegation of ers Believe Measure M asure Cannot Be Passed This Session FASTER SCHEDULE WANTED RAILROADS MAY BE B MADE TO SPEED LIVESTOCK It is believed by the delegates representing representing the wool growers that the pur purpose purpose purpose pose for tor which they went to Washing Washington ton has been accomplished in Jn great measure at least That purpose was yas to bring about the defeat of ot the Burkhart bill now pending in congress and to secure promises that a minimum rat rate for tor hauling livestock will wUl be required of ot the railroads The National tion at Its recent meeting in Helena called upon the various western states to send to Washington committees rep resenting the wool industry to lay be fore the senators and representatives and the department officials were sent from Utah Idaho Ne Neada vada yada ada Wyoming W Montana New co Arizona Colorado and in fact all of the western states The Thc Utah dele dee gation gatlon consisted of E H IL Callister Canister C B D Stewart and John H The committee was as absent two weeks Mr lIr Stwart Stewart returned yesterday and brings the news that the efforts of the committee were highly successful We met arid and talked with all aU of ot the western representatives in congress said Bald Mr Stewart and we believe we have en listed their support for the wool indus try in the west Our chief aim was to solicit aid In defeating def the Burkhart bill which in effect provides for tor forthe the permanent transfer of the remaining public domain to large Interests The provisions of the bill are that lands may lay be e leased ased at a rate not to be less man luan nat nair a cent an acre and not to exceed 4 cents There are great tracts of land in eastern Utah western Wyo Wyoming Wyoming ming Thing western Utah and eastern Ne Nevada Neada Neada vada ada that could and would under the provisions of the bill be taken under lease Jease by the big corporations which would immediately gain control of the water cater supply and the small owner would be shut out Would Kill Dry Farming Its passage would wo d mean the killing of dry farming I believe just as that Industry is coming to the front for land Jand rould oud no longer be bought from the tin state We had assurances which lead us to believe that the Burkhart Dill will wUl ili not be passed at this session We also saw the president and had hada a conference with Gifford Pinchot the chief forester and his assistant with reference to the curtailment of the ther range r by reason of the establishment of national forests and the consequent reduction of the quantity of wool pro Hasten Trains Tr lins in Transit t S We 0 were given a hearing by the in interstate and foreign commerce commit committee tee of the house with reference e to a Modification of the law now in force governing the transportation of live livestock livestock stock The law Is that stock shall not be kept on the cars longer than hours without stopping to un unload unload load Joad and feed in transit We asked that the railroads be required to make better time with their stock trains and we fixed the minimum rate of speed at sixteen miles mUes an hour As it is now the railroads can dilly dally daily along as they please and the shippers are the suffer sufferers ers We Wo were given to understand that the members of the committee at least leasta a good many of them acquiesced in hat we asked Association Is Organized Meanwhile there has been organized in ii Utah a state association association tion of which Mr Callister is president and Mr Ir Stewart secretary It Is ex ox expected expected that this organization will soon become one of the strongest of Its kind in the west It Is up tip to the wool grower to look after his own Interests said Mr Stewart and he can best do this by membership In the association There Th re are grave questions that must be settled and settled rightly and if they are not the wool industry in this state will be killed |