| Show STOCK GRAZING ALLOTMENTS Substantial Increases for 1908 Over Previous Year on West Western Western ern em Forest Reserves GRAZING RIGHTS 1 for fM Iho tho iIi Samo As n 4 Ui Last t Con COli of Special Correspondence Wyo 0 March 2 Dr A it AF F Potter tor assistant forester nile chief ohler of ot grazing of tho the bureau of ur forestry through hero helo on Oil route IOU to Washington from front Salt Sat Laky Lake City where he ho met mot with foresters and and LInd adjusted d matters per ver pertaining to grazing livestock tock In the tue he Utah reserves Dr Potter lini hiu matlo lip the ITO list 1151 of ot allotments for fol or In tIle the reserves s of at this other wc t rn for the tIld th current Your year rhe fhe Wyoming follows S Cattle Sheen Sheep Reserves Gid Horses Goats Big Horn HOOn Crow Creek 2 COO Bow How Sierra Madre Madro Sundance mv itt itten cr er Total The rho by y states follow tallow Cattle Shoop Horses U oret Goats G Colorado Arizona California COO Idaho 1 Kansas Montana Nebraska Nevada asoo Now New Mexico Oklahoma Oregon South Dakota lakota Utah Washington Wyoming Total Mr r Potter stated that tho the above Is Isan an Increase over the tho number of per ier permits nuts mils Issued fur for lost last year sear In round numbers of cattle and 1800 sheep heep There Thero are aro 14 reserves not Included In the lI e above In iii which allotments allotment have havo not lint yet ot been made matle Tho Thu reserves aro 1110 nil all small and will not carry carr to excited eXI eo cattle and sheep combined ed Mr 1 Potter stated that the tho Increased el number of sheep cattle cuI lie horses anti and I goats allowed In tho the reserves In 1903 1105 over 1907 1901 Is due duo to Improved condi conditions lions In 30 of at tho reserves and the Increased area Irca of at some of ot the Iho old re no reserves reo Servos serves and tho the creation nation national al forests The rhe forester forestor figures that the tho 1138 cattle and sheep grazing In the tho reserves a It few tew weeks wook the tho corn com lag InS will return to the tho forest service something like Lust Last LiI t tear year ear tho tile forest service obtained from grazing the sum stun of In the main the fees tees charged for tor grazing cattle sheep horses and goats remain the same Home this year as US last In itt Montana a n reduction In the tIle fee feo charged char ed cod ed for tor grazing sheep ah ep has baa been made Last year car eight cents per p r hood hoad was WM charged anti and thin this year seven cents will bo be charged In some saint an Increase Is it noted In lit Idaho the tho grazers of at sheep will bo b charged chan ed sow NOV ov oven en Cit cents cent per hood head for tor n a season eason and six nix cents pOI per head for a season saI In Tho The forester toro ter tersa says sa IJ the tees fees are about the tho samo oil nil around with a n slight reduction on n fl sheep It If any change chango nt lit all 1111 TIm The present season the forest wr 1 vice will mako allotments on the fol following followIng following lowing per heath head per pOl month basis Cattle Horses Sheep per POl per pOl PC Head Head Bend Head Henel Five FI months or orIs orless less Is B o 71 1 Io to 10 months 2 e Oc ge Year long Ong period SOc rOc lIc He Stockmen have complained fore rore that grazers graders In tho tIle forest reserves re were given no nil assurances that when they thoy left the tho reserves ono one year eur that they would bo ho permitted to enter tho the next nt and stockmen were discouraged because they could not anticipate a a year or plan pica for tho the future Tho forest service lies has finally changed this tills system nail anil beginning be with this season supervisors will approve I applications for grazing privileges for torn a period of cC five e years eurl In reserves 9 the tho tots feos to ho paid annually at tho the regular tate current for tor each year The Tho reserves In which this will ho be are ns nH tallow follow Tho Ihn Horn lOom 1111 In hi Wyoming Battlement Mesa Mosa n and In Colorado San Saiu an Francisco mountains In ii Arizona Santa Banta Barbara and Sierra Stat flown In iii California and the tue Cis nde tI l North In lit Oreon I |
