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Show "Stockmen meet (Continued from first, page) n.m LeaviU, Guniock; Rex Gard- d-nt hunters spends an average of two days on the hunt and I -f-nds an average of $7.50 for ;hor-e and man hire. They also I report that after deductions are made for feed and horse expends, ex-pends, they earn only a fair -a?e. The men were: E. R. Frei Santa Clara; LeRoy Grant, New Harmony; Roy Knell, Pinto; Jonathan Hunt, Enterprise; A er-. er-. ner, Pine Valley; Reed Prince, !New Harmony, Erastus Gardner, i i . Pine Valley; Milton Burgess, Central; L. M. Terry, Enterprise; Lawrence McMuUin, Leeds The petition shows that the livestock industry in the county brings in about $69,200. 0 which is all spent in the county, while the $39,000.00 which is reported as being spent by hunters is misleading mis-leading because only a small percentage per-centage is actually spent m trie county. Forest Supervisor Gurr addressed ad-dressed the meeting. He challenged chal-lenged the petition m its entirety. en-tirety. He also challenged the committee's figures and stated that we must get something more definite. He further said that presenting this petition to the Forest Service was throwing too much burden on them, and that in his opinion, it should be taken to the State Game Commission, because the state owned the der. Re said there were 60,000 sportsmen sports-men bringing pressure from the other side, threatening to get out an injunction to stop the killing of doe deer. The figures of the Forest Service show the number of deer I t.n he 19200, or an increase of 1530 per cent since 1920. Mr. Gurr stated that these figures are more or less subject to an element ele-ment of error. He further declared there must be a reduction in livestock. He recommends a reduction of 20 per cent in livestock, but says he cannot do anything with the deer because tiiey belong to the state of Utah. Mr. Gurr stated ;rcePnrSenn.tU the deer problem before taking any ac nrrrB-ler auestioned' Mr. Gurr as livestock pe;.:rredtSr on the ses, thy should not this pe-titiLhe pe-titiLhe be brought to the Forest ffS?teGrr then charged the .tockmen with negligence in no cooperating with the recent d , rrnlv 200 permits weie r' out of 900. He further Itated that if the stockmen w anxious to get rid of the deei they should have cooperated. ' This statement was challenged WZ Bowutr said it was im-pofsfble im-pofsfble to get permi ts because no local men were allowed to sell thVe'rnon Leavitt said it was not advertised and no one see mted to know when it was to take place. Rex Frei said the livestockmen could not afford to treat a market mar-ket for the State Game Commission's Commis-sion's meat when the deer are eating up the feed. The meeting then accepted the appointment of Erastus Gardner and Luther M. Terry to act as the livestock representatives on the committee of ten. This com-' com-' mittee was appointed at a pre-; pre-; vious meeting to study the range, 1 deer and livestock situation. " i 4 ' motion was made by Guy Hafen and seconded by Rex Gardner that there be no reduction re-duction in forest permits until the committee of ten had made its study, obtained information and made a complete report which is" to be completed by the end of 1935. The motion was carried unanimously. J Claud Frei made a motion which was seconded by Roland Bowler that the committee which was appointed ,to get information for this meeting have the power to assess the different associations associa-tions to meet expenses. The motion mo-tion was carried unanimously. A motion was made by Guy Hafen and seconded by Levi Neil-son Neil-son that the large permits be not cut to let the smaller permittees increase. The motion carried t.wentv-eight to twenty-three. Bruce Snow made a motion which was seconded by Matthew Gray that the permittees stand together in refusing to take any cut until the deer are reduced in proportion to the cattle. The motion was carried unanimously. |