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Show Wool Growers in National Convention Five-Minuto Discussion of tho Industry Indus-try Throughout tho Country. DENVER. Jnn. 9 Tho fortieth annual eoii nil. mi .if the National Wm.l-prowerH' ii.iyurlatlon opened this morning In the T.ibor (ininil opera-house, the meeting bc-Ing bc-Ing Called to order by .Tease M. Smith, who Is vice-president of tho association After the annual reports of the offlcora had been read a committee of BSVSn was appointed to consider the proposed reor-Knnl7ntlon reor-Knnl7ntlon of the National I. he-stock Sff-poclfiilon Sff-poclfiilon with Instructions to report to ihr. general body of the WooI-btow r 1 association as-sociation at as early n date as possible. 1 here i a sharp division between iho cattlemen n to the advisability of ni- lowlm: rallr.iadx and packers to have rcp- resen tatlon In the governing body of the fi.osoclallon. If the new plan of organization organiza-tion hi cnrrlod through President Prank j Hatrenbarth of ths tdvo-stoeh assocls t'.on I strongly In favor of admitting them, and he has a numerous following. Many Western stockmen, while not op-pcxlnc op-pcxlnc lie propos 1 organisation, are against allowing slther railroads or pack era tO hnve anything to say about tho affairs of live-stock men The. conb nd that the railroads, working in conjunc tion with the packers have compelled them to sell their cattle at the lowest rcsslble prices, and they object to an alliance al-liance With either Of them The proposed reorganization la based upon the various branches of tho IfVS-BtOCk IfVS-BtOCk Industrv. each branch lK-ing considered con-sidered as a unit, and the representation Of that unit to bo regarded as standing for Its Interests in the annual live-stock conventions which have of late, becorno somewhat unwieldy on account of the number of delegates. Each hranh of the Industry is to be controlled bv a general committee of Its own members and the solo live au- thorllv of the national organization will be confined to B committee composed of one representative from each branch of the live -stock Industry. During the nfternoop session, the programme pro-gramme Included llve-mlnute addresses on lib- condition of the sheep und wool Industrv In the various countries. States and Territories. The speakers were B. S. GOSSnsy, Art- iona; w Llngharii, Colorado; u. Olcei, California; m. Owln, Idaho: J. B Morse Montana. S Luna, New Mexico. )' Flanagan, Nevada: James flwln, Oregon; James Boyd, South Dakota. R Nichols. Washington; and C. W Barney, Wyoming. Oiher nddresses on the programme wer.f Tin r.rowth of o..l Maniifaetnrlng In Am.-n. a, ' John B. McPherson -The )ut-look )ut-look for Wool " J. Sllberman. Tho Kllm-I Kllm-I ,., mioep Seal).' D E Salmon. What Makes Good Wool," Theodore Justice. |