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Show CATTLE RAISER FIGHTS REPORT (Tribune) It would be a "serious mistake", mis-take", in the opinion of John M. Macfarlane, president of the Utah Cattle and Horsegrowex-s' association, to follow the recommendation recom-mendation made by the Arizona-Utah Arizona-Utah joint commission on the Arizona strip and its problems, and eliminate 5,000,000 acres from the national forests of Utah. Reporting to Harden Ben-nion, Ben-nion, state commissioner of agriculture, agri-culture, on his analysis of the commission's report, which was prepared by W. W. Seegmiller, representing Utah, and Thomas Maddock, for Arizona, Mr. Macfarlane Mac-farlane disagrees with the commission com-mission on the statement that forest ranges are no better than adjacent ranges privately owned. own-ed. The forest service, in Mr. Macfarlane's opinion, has doubled doub-led the -carrying capacity of the ranges in Utah under its control. con-trol. Mr. Macfarlane agrees with the Seegmiller-Maddock report in opposing increases in the Grand canyon national park area, or the creation of the 44,000-acre buffalo reserve in Houserock valley on the Arizona strip, which is that portion of Arizona north of the Colorado. He also agrees with the joint commission that the addition of the Piute strip, of 600,000 acres in Utah, to the Navajo reservation would be detrimental to the interests of the cattleman. Mr. Macfarlane stands by the recommendations of a commission commis-sion of which he was a member, which investigated the handling of deer on the Kaibab forest last spring. The Arizona-Utah commission com-mission criticized some of the findings of the Kaibab commission. |