Show LIT butali KW ARE busa WHAT tin ISS isso arios is DOING I 1 oil OR TIM Addres Mt ts lattur bra to the tile no A 1 I over tho lh 1 i on alio ua to back them thein up in lit their lettera letters have recently been in milled tiled by C B stewart secretary of the utah Wool growers association to the hundred committeemen in lit the various counties of the state who havo have chargo charge of raising tho the fund th letter tella tells why utah shee prien should join the association and in lit part roads reads in the first place we will say that about three years ago the association apont spent about a thousand doll dollina tra to send competent representatives to washington 1 D C to le de feat foat the passage of tho the barkett bill which would have put into forest reserves all of our winter ranges wo we were successful in stopping itu its pas ige wo we succeeded ut u t the last leets lature in passing a law lank which taxed our sheep for the period of timo thile only that they gr grazed teed within the salto heretofore many of our I 1 m paid double taxes VV ve 0 a 0 o also protecting the sheep men in reglita in trailing aling tr sheep from front ono one p pirl trl cf ef tho santo to the other wo have aed in tit putting a sheep min on the board of equalization and 1 this year we v sized wied a difference dIffee dietr ence nce on the tax valuation of a dollar per head on our sheep the board attempted to raise the tile v vilua tion to three doll dolt ir irs and our representative senta tive had tile sheep reduced to two dollars a head nort year wo we believe that we will have a further reduction as tho the sheep men inen jre are no paying higher taxes on the cheep sheep I 1 proportion than are paid on other classes of property tariff wont go loii r we constantly work nork to protect tho the sheep on the forests to reals we have been fighting the tariff for the benefit of the sheep men mon over ever sinco since our organization and wo nye are assured that the tariff will not bo be lowered at tit the 0 coming session of congress duo to 0 o the good worx work of our committee which we liae haie sent back to washington hut but thur trip cost us of dollar dollars we niso also au succeeded through the expenditure of considerable timo time and money in producing good testimony before the interstate commerce commission an all wo we thir thirk k without doubt that wo we all have a coat a pound reduction on the freight rate of our wool next year we hav bay secured a lower rate tor for the transportation of our sheep on railroads from front the summer to tho the winter ange we are now working with the forestry department to eliminate a large area of winter range in the southern part of the state and we e have every assurance that wo we will be successful our association Is constantly donating money to the national association cia tion which is fit doing a it great deal deil of good tor for all the sheep men inen in our wr torn tern country we have the ai su llort of all the newspapers of thab state and wo we wint ant to deduc ite tho the people and them thit th it the aho epman la Is an honest business man a good clil citizen zen and ani Is doing ml MI in his power to develop our t ute me every man ought to put big shoulder to the wheel |