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Show WOOL GROWERS MEET. A Thousand Sheepmen Attend Convention Con-vention In Pocatello. Pocntollo, Ida. Ono thousand fchcopmen attended tho opening scs elon or tho National Wool Growers' convention In this city on Thursday and listened attentively to a blttci arraignment or tho rcderal forestry bureau by President Fred W. Good Ing of Shoshone. Declaring thnt the government in Its administration ol tho nntlonnl forests and of tho.rccla, matlon sorvlco has fnllcd woorully President Gooding urged that tho con press bo naked to name n committee ot western men to Investigate and re port any needed changes In the rules nnd regulations governing theso two burenus. In support ot his contention that evils oxlst In federnl control of Uio unappropriated public domain, President Pres-ident Gooding compared tho results attained undor tho operation of the Cnroy act by tho westorn states with Mhat ho assorted was a miserable falluro on tho part of tho government In reclaiming tho arid west by tho reclamation service. Tho forenoon session or tho conven-tlon conven-tlon wns devoted entirely to tho midwinter mid-winter Bhcop show. It Is Iho oplnlpji ot dnlegntos to tho Pocotclhi gathering gather-ing that tho 1909 show Is tho biggest end best straight Bhcop show evor hold In Amorlca. Over COO sheep aro ontercd. |