Show P Pyrotechnics In Farmers Meeting g White While Halloy's comet was attracting attract attract- t In ing attention during tho rho eclipse 0 of t the moon Monday night there was wasa a Do brighter display of com comet shootIng shooting shoot shoo t ing stars and pyrotechnics pyrotechnic In the Opera house during the tho visit of Chief Forester Graves Gravo and his Lis i In fact it it was ono one of the tho mo most t spirited spirit spirit- ed meetings ever held Lold in this city city city- there choro was wu no mincing of words and andy y at atone one time tho the chairman Mr Dir Ras Ras- musses mussen m sen of Mt Dit Pleasant ant hail had to remonstrate re 10 to a against tho the verbal brickbats brick brick- bats 2 I Tho small email farmers w r Jt out ont in full force and there thero was al a also aa a large representation of wool growers After the tho meeting had hod been called to order Lewis Larsen Larson was asked by too chair man to state staW the grievances of the tho farmers Ho fie said in part The Thu fact is that the tho sovereign people of this district are dissatisfied with tho rho presen present t distribution of the grazing privileges on the tho National Forest Wo claim that nino tenths nine of the tho people are imposed upon bythe by bytho bytho tho the regulations as enforced today Not all alt farmers want to engage inthe Inthe in the tho sheep business but they do want to keep a few V head of horses and cattle Nine tenths Nine of tho the citizens ns arc aro clamoring for representation n and we wo demand equal privileges for tor all 1 I Moreover we the are arc opposed to the tho leasin leasing of these those privileges and wo we dont don't want these public lands landato to become become be bo come comp smatter matter a of Inheritance f. f Mr Dir Larson Larsen assert asserted d that eop some e of the sheep men looked upon these grazing privileges as rights whereas they were in reality merely assumed rights Inasmuch a as the public domain Is as much the property of tho rm- rm er as of the wool grower The speak speaker er was questioned by some of the he sheep men men and aud this resulted in In an exchange of words that caused aused the chairman to intercede i At the tho suggestion of A. A W. W Jensen former supervisor of the ManU Manti foi forest foit forest t. t the chairmen of the various t town wn ori orl or or- l' l i were asked to state their i it yi a grievances e All All' uni united d In in asking I m that J 8 farmer r- r bo granted I foCI r z eD 01 towns town represented were Centerfield Gunns n Sterling Mayfield Manti Ephraim Spring City Chester Moroni Moro Moro- ni ni Wales Fayette Mt Dit Pleasant and Fairview James Munson of Mt Dir Pleasant spoke in behalf of the tho wool growers ro lie ne assorted that if iP the plan of the rho farmers were wore followed it would kill th the sheep industry Ho lIe said that if tho the grazing privileges were warn equally divided every farmer would be bo permitted permitted permitted per per- to graze eighteen sheep cheep lIe He assorted asserted that it would not be profi profi- profitable table o to keep the tho sheep on the tho farms during tho the winter when they can betaken bo be taken to the tho West Desert Other wool wood growers who addressed the tho I meeting mooting wore were Mr fir Peterson of Ephraim Eph Ephraim EPh 1 raim Mr Dir Mr Tuttle of ManU Manti Mr Aagard of Fountain Green Groen Mr Candland and Dir Mr Scaly of lit Mt Pleasant and L. L R R. R I Anderson Andorson of ManU Manti Mr Anderson I advocated the leasing of grazing J. J Y Jensen Jenson and George B. B Cox Coz were among those who have been denied grazing privileges es These men were permitted to graze their pure pare purebred bred sheep last year but were were crowded crowd crowd- ed off th tha range this thins year A representative of the Emery Emory County Livestock association petitioned petitioned peti peti- boned for a two two mile closed area larea He the tho sheep or are grazed gr zeden en the Emery county c anty watershed and that that thac county gets all aU the filth filth- h. h He a al aleo also so eo attributed the big floods of last year in part to the grazing of th the sheep on that portion of the range The party of visiting forest officers consisted of Chief Forester Graves Associate Forester Adams District Forester Sherman Assistant District Forester Fenn Fenu and A. A W. W Jensen o of the Ogden headquarters Mr Graves stated at the close of the meeting that his visit had been very satisfactory inasmuch as he had succeeded in securing an ex expression from both parties to the controversy He Fie assured is auditors that the matter matt matter mat mat- t ter r would not be disposed of in an off off- offhand offhand hand manner but that he ho would first give the matter thorough consideration tiou tion with the tho assistance of the local I officers and that he trusted the matI matter mat mat- I tel ter would be worked out satisfactorily |