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Show WOOL GROWERS MEET. A Thousand Sheepmen Attend Convention Con-vention in Pocatello. Pocatello, Ida. One thousand sheepmen attended the opening ses sion of the National Wool Growers' convention in this city on Thursday, and listened attentively to a bittei arraignment of the federal forestry bureau by President Fred W. Good Ing of Shoshone. Declaring that the government in its administration ol the national forests and of the recla mation service has failed woefully. President Gooding urged that the con gress be asked to name a committee of western men to investigate and re port any needed changes in the rules and regulations governing these two bureaus. In support of his contention that evils exist in federal control of the unappropriated public domain, President Pres-ident Gooding compared the results attained under the operation of the Carey act by the western states with Mhat he asserted was a miserable failure on the part of the government in reclaiming the arid west by the reclamation service. The forenoon session of the convention conven-tion was devoted entirely to the midwinter mid-winter sheep show. It is the opinion of delegates to the Pocatello gathering gather-ing that the 1909 show is the biggest and best straight sheep show ever held in America. Over GOO sheep are entered. |