Show Cattlemen Jn Dear Editor- in answer to Webb's letter of Oc- tober 12 and Dan and Esther Hughes letter of 1 would like to set the record I do have a drive which I use to haul 10 tons of salt into the each year for my cattle and the I wonder how you would like to pack that on your I also use it to feed the cattle when the snow is I do not use it for recreation as I don't get a two weeks vacation like I am busy maintain- ing my cattle and ranch so I don't have time to use the truck for I have one broken down snowmobile that was bought second hand for ranch work and haven't used it for 2 Webb accuses us of tearing a liv- ing out of the earth and of and pillaging the which is No cattleman would still be in business under those If we had not learned to live in harmony with the we would all have been gone long Due to the range improvements and water the land is getting better all of the Webb's statement about Alaska would be laughable if it wasn't so Congress just set aside million acres of Alaska for wilderness and so there goes a good share of the mineral and oil rich resources of In answer to and I can understand how they like the peace and solitude of the would like it all to myself for me and my cat- but I am a I realize all of the people own the that no part of it should be locked up for selfish people like the Sierra Club I would like to suggest to the Sierra Club that they take the million they spend each year lobbying Congress and S source of it would be real in- A. C. Wilkerson Cattleman |