Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-03 | Page 7 | Utah Wool Men to Hold Meeting

iiTRii inni to hi p mw Problems of Industry to Be Discussed January 16 and 17, C. B. Stewart, secretary of the Utah State YYoolrowers' as.soj'aiion, announced yesterday that tiie annual convention of the association will be held January 10 and 17- at the Hotel Utah. In view of th'e fact that no meeting wag held last year and because of the many important matters which are expected ex-pected to come before the t;aiherinT, a lare attendance is looked for. Mr. Stewart Stew-art said. Recommendations will be formulated for the purpose of aiding the s;a!e livestock board in tiie destruction cf rredatory animals, ani-mals, Mr. Stewart said. The eon vent ion is to be adJressed by a roy-.-e-enbitive of Cue United States I'kvcgicnl survev and a representative of the f.r-vnrv reserve department of the United S tat es d e part-men part-men t of agriculture, according to Mr. Stewart. The convention alco will consider means of gaining lovvor ra.ilroa 1 rat-1;;, esr.c'iaily from summer to winter raires. he said. Tavation of sheep in Ut;;h and the iery-insr iery-insr of a g'raz'ng tax on Utah sheep in Nevada and Arizona will be amomr the matters which wiil ;;'r:e up for consideration consid-eration during tiie r 'tincr. M r. Rtewar: declared. It is ;'ro''-i'ie th.at a. committee commit-tee will he appointed to take up the subject of the taxing cf Utali sheen by Nevada and A.rizona vrith ih.e fed era.! eoveuinuMit, in an e:To": to iiave the taxat'on removed, he f Paclcing houses of the . ounlry will be I invited to send representatives to the convention and ;t is Ik-fed to brim? about a cooperation between the packers and wooi men that will be of mutual benefit, ac'.-ordin to Mr. Stevrart. Taking th.e position that matters of greatest importance to the live stock industry in-dustry of the sta te are to he discussed at the annual meet'iurs of the live stock men, and that its own polieies and actions ac-tions will be under review, for annrova' or disapproval by the live stock interests, the state livestock board is issuing a circular cir-cular letter to the stock m-en of Utah urging their attendance at the meetings.