Show WESTERN GOVERNORS MEET NINE STATES HAVE representation IN conference CON conservation PLAN addresses indicate that people of the I 1 went have just cause for complaint salt lake city though no definite action was taken thursday at the meeting of 0 governors at three meetings it Is expected that friday the nine western states represented will de cide upon some soma concerted action al abong angco conservative lines to carry before ore the meeting of the national conservation congress which meets in st paul september 5 to 9 in clu elusive sive that the west will be represented at the national conservation congress at st paul september 5 to 9 inclusive was practically decided thursday night at the conference of western governors called together in salt lake at the instance of governor hay of washington but no tentative program was outlined upon which the west will stand in making demands upon the east in regard to future conservation policies because of the vast importance of conservation in the states of the in ter mountain and pacific slope and the tendency upon the part of some not to attend the st paul conference because of what was termed an open slight to governor hay the conference in salt lake la is ot of the utmost importance throughout the country especially ally in view of the interest which has haa developed in regard to the conservation movement demands were made and ideas expressed thursday vitally affecting future work of the administration in washington but the gov governors errors did not got get down to a working basis A now new portent of the future was carried in the demands of washington and wyoming that the administration of the forest be 0 turned over to tho the gove sovereign reign states by the government to allow the handling ot of all these matters within the states and not by the federal government this demand however will probably not be carried to st paul as the majority of gover governors bors are ot of the impression that the time la Is not yet ripe for the states to demand that the lands now held bola by the government be turned over to ti them |