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Show p.RAZINC ORDER IS WITHDRAWN Wasuincton, Jim. 21. The committee ,f the Utah Wool Growers' association which came to Washington to secure a modification of the regulations with respect re-spect to grazing upon the forest reserve of that state has been successful and has score! a great victory for the wool growers of Utah. Chief Forester Graves has suspended for one year the order recently issued, making a cut of 27,000 head in the number of sheep that will be permitted to graze next season upon the Manti reserve. This means that, instead of the order going into effect next grazing season, it will not be effective ef-fective until the season following. This modification of the order is entirely en-tirely satisfactory to the wool growers, for it will give them an opportunity to adjust their herds and their business, and will not compel them to sell in the spring, as they would have been obliged to do had the original order been enforced. en-forced. The cut of 27,000 in the number of sheep that are to be permitted to graze npon the Manti forest reserve means a reduction of seventeen and one-half per cent, and if the sheepmen were obliged to conform to this order this spring it would entail a great sacrifice upon their part. The committee, consisting of E. H. Callister, president of the Utah Wool growers' association; W. D. Candland, chairman of the board of land commissioners commis-sioners and L. R. Anderson, chairman of the board of sheep commissioners, today held a conference with Chief Forester For-ester Graves, at which the subject was gone over thoroughly. The outcome was the agreement of Forester Graves that the order should be suspended for one year, and this was quite satisfactory to the committee. This means tnat the Utah sheepmen will be permitted to graze the same number up m the Manti reserve next season as, last. The committee will leave hsre Tuesday Tues-day for New York and Boston. |