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Show Sheepmen Will Petition Congress for Change of Railroad Law A mediae of the directors of tho Utah Wool growers' association was held at tho offices of the company in Hie Judge building Saturday morning, fpr tho purpose of selecting a representative representa-tive lo go to Washington, I). C, where a meeting is to be held February 10 of all representatives of tiic wool industry, in-dustry, who will consider and report to the bureau at the national capital respecting re-specting the requirements of the sheepmen sheep-men of the west. H. LI. Callister, president presi-dent of tho Utah "Woolgrowers association, associa-tion, was selected to represent Utah at Washington. Many questions will come tip for consideration con-sideration at the meeting of the sheepmen sheep-men at Washington, one of the most; important issues being the speed at which stock Irains are operated. The sheepmen will ask for a schedule of not less than sixtoon miles an hour, l-'lockniaslers claim that on a slow run thoy lose from (wo to four pounds per head, which amounts lo about $30 per car of sheep shipped. Former Governor .of Tdaho Frank Gooding put the issue very forcibly at the "Woolgrowers' convention at Ogdcn, when he said: "A shrinkage of from two lo four pounds on each sheep can easily be lost by reason of a poor run. Tli is means at least a total loss of $50 per car. Idaho alone ships more than 5000 cars of sheep. A losfe of $50 a car menus a loss of $250,000 a year lo the sheepmen of Tdaho alone. Taking this as a basis for the rest of the country (and in my .judgment it is a very low estimate), it can easily .be shown there aro millions of dollars of loss every year to tho western shippers ship-pers of livestock. Xol only do we loso in weight, but in tho price we Tocoivc ia the market on arrival, as it is not in tho prime condition it would bo with a good run." Another quotation from tho speech of Governor Gooding, given in ''The Shepherd's Journal,'1 is as follows: "One of the most important reforms that, this association should attempt to secure, in my opinion, is the amendment of the thirty-six-hour law, ho that a sixleen-mile-an-hour speed provision for trains loaded with livestock shall be adopted at the present session of con- isB " According to Secretary Callister of tho board of sheep commissioners of H Utah, there has not been a heavy loss j fff of sheep in Utah during the recent WW storms. There have been considerable losses in Tdnho, Wyoming and Montana, flffif but the report that has been current 1IK that -1,000,000 sheep had been -lost dur- lufljfi ing the past few weeks is considered j mHM an exaggeration. In Wyoming the sta- jfifil5 tistics show that there is about .'1.000.- IIoJr 000 sheep, in daho about .'5,000,000. in iMjl Montana, approximately, about -1,000,- flW I 000; in Nevada about 7.500.000, and in 0Bi& Utah something over 2.000,000. Ulah lSWffl ships to the east yearly about 30'00 iPlliP cars of sliocp. If the loss per c;ir lijfffiil should aggregate $50, then tho loss to nSQl the ilockmaslers of this state would IBM figure up to $150,000, and to avert these MBUQ losses tiio meeting of representative sheepmen in the west is to be held at MM Washington and congress will have to jfljM deal with the question. . UHH |