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Show lliifflPHifi Bourn DISCUSSION Endeavor Toward Uniformity Uniform-ity in Rate to Be Made at Meeting in January. Arrangements art being made by A. A. Ca J lister, secretary of th Ftate sheep commission, fur a meet hi.-,' of western sheepmen to he he! J in Salt Lake in conjunction with the meeting of the National Wool growers' convention. conven-tion. January 11 to 13- at which the 1 matter of uniformity in bounty laws will be discussed. Ilt is d'-sired by the Utah sheep commission com-mission to bi-inq- about a uniformity among i ho we torn states in the mat t er of bounty on coyotes especially, so that 1 a more effective raid on the animals may be prosecuted In the various states and the sheepmen saved from great loss each yea r. At present the various states have dlf-i-ent laws and there is difficulty in iian-rTng iian-rTng the matter of bounties to eliminate (P' fro uds, H Is claimed. The local sheep1 Commission is recommending an increase in the bounty on coyotes from $ 1.50 a bead to $3 a head to stimulate the daughter of the animals, but the state officials do not feel that it would be wise to increase the bounty unless the surrounding sur-rounding stales make laws similar to those of Utah in relation to payment of bounties, so as to guard acainst duplicate dupli-cate collections of the bounty. In hip recent biennial report, "Lincoln O. Kelly, stato auditor, r-ommeiKietl that the western states should get together to-gether and take up the mutter of enacting enact-ing uniform laws on bounty matters. Mr. Calllster is communicating with sheepmen throughout the west, asking them to meet in Fait Take at the time of the national convention for the especial espe-cial purpose of discussing uniform bounty legislation, and it is expected that at this meeting some axtion will be taken i toward tills end. I |