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Show CATTLEMEN FIGHT GAME-ENCROACHMENT Resolutions Passed at Annual Convention Con-vention Protest Withdrawal of Public Land. J. M. Macfarlane of Salt Lake, president, and all other officers of the Utah Cattle and Horse Growers' association were reelected at the closing session of the annual an-nual convention of the organization organiza-tion held in Salt Lake Saturday, according to D. H. Morris, of St. George, who attended the meetings. meet-ings. Besides Mr. Morris, those from St. George who attended the convention con-vention included W. B. Mathis, Ephraim Foremaster and Frank Pendleton. The association adopted a number num-ber of resolutions pertaining to national public lands and marketing market-ing policies which will constitute the objectives for the ensuing year. They are as follows: Approval of the policies of the federal farm board, and urging member organizations and individual indi-vidual members of the association to support the program of the farm board and the setup of the livestock cooperative marketing in Utah in connection with the Western Cattle Marketing association. associ-ation. (Continued on pa-je 4) STOCKMEN (Continued from page 1) Endorsement of federal control of the public domain in the western west-ern states, and particularly in Utah under similar regulations as are now in force in the national forests. A protest against any move on the part of the federal government govern-ment to deprive the livestock interests in-terests of their grazing privileges. This resolution points out that the secretary of the interior has withdrawn from entry approximately approxi-mately 2,000,000 acres of grazing land in Mohave county, Arizona, part of the Arizona strip, which, if allowed to become permanent, will deprive the cattlemen of southern Utah and northern Arizona Ari-zona of their cattle range and will practically force them out of business. busi-ness. Commending the action of congress con-gress in appropriating funds to be used for the introduction of foreign for-eign plants, the development 'of better kinds of forage plants, by plant breeding and selection of native -western grasses for range improvement and recommended a continuation of this policy. Calling to the attention of the federal government the inconsistency inconsist-ency of increasing grazing fees on the national forests and thus increasing in-creasing the iburdens of the struggling strug-gling livestock industry while financial fin-ancial authorities are trying to provide relief for the industry. Demanding a restriction in big game to an amount reasonably necessary for the perpetuity of the various species, and compensation for the damages caused by excess game to the range preferences and loss of forage on private property. prop-erty. Congressman Don B. Colton urged urg-ed that the association send representatives rep-resentatives to Washington, D. C. next winter when the whole question ques-tion of the public domain is to be gone into and probably important legislation enacted. The advice of men who have had acutal experience experi-ence in the cattle and sheep industry, in-dustry, rather than of those who have only theoretical information, would be greatly desired when public land matters are being studied by congressional committees, commit-tees, he said. The necessity of cooperation between be-tween cattlemen and national forest for-est officials to insure better utilization uti-lization of the grazing resources was discussed by Ernest Winkler, assistant regional forester at Og-den. Og-den. The convention, according to Judge Morris, was one of the best he has ever attended, large numbers of cattlemen from all parts of the state having gathered gather-ed for the discussion of problems affecting the industry. |
