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Show Siieepmen Frame Protest Mt, Pleasant Pyramid. Convinced that tha recent order made by government forest reserve officials, which materially reduces the number of sheep to be grazed oa the Manti forest next year, means, if put into effeot, practioally the ruination of tbe industry locally. Sanpete county sheepmen are preparing to make one last desperate stand in behalf of what they deem their rights and for the very life of what they oousider ore of the most important of Utah's and Sanpete's industries, This last mighty migh-ty effort wiU have for its object the rewinding of that order and the restoration re-storation of the privileges at present enjoyea ; it will be mad ? in Utah and in the nation's capital as well, if need be. The opening move in this campaign which is to be waged was the Wool Growers' convention held in Mount Pleasant December 20. About fifty mads because of the two mils rentrio-ted rentrio-ted area at the top, and that arsa had been set aside beoame of n demand from the east sida of the ridge that their watershed must hn proteoted . It is not too lato to have tha ordsr rescinded re-scinded but it would be necessary to couvi nee the department that it had erred in restricting tha two-mile strip befo'e it would be done. The forest can accommodate the number grazed this year if that area is opened. Ha was disappointed in the 'size of the meeting. Out of more than 500 per- I mittees less than 50 were present. I determined men from all parts of Sanpete and from Juab were present. They discussed thesituatiou aud outlined out-lined a plan of action. They decided to make vigorous protest against the reducing order, to ask that the taiiiff schedule on wool be retained aa at present, to ask the business tneo of the county to petition the powers thf.t betothesaraa eilect .nd to ask br personal letter for tha 6ame things. Those at tlie meeting were plain and outspoken in thuir language. They said they were not being troated right ; that thay ought to have been consulted; that ciin advisory board had never been intended as represented, represen-ted, etc. Supervisor Smith and Assistant Winkler wore prt?-.eas and answered many questions; the rsiuctioa had ben roads to protect the water eheds, tha idea boing to nuke tae reserve a valuable es possible. I KesoluvioOe were adopted to be eent tbe st'.ta and national Wool Grovers' J association?, the secretary of sgiicj1- : .cie hud L-fii-s eonfrrepsiotjal dele- tion. They referred to tbe list order for a reduction as a blo-7 which would kill the industry ; they referred to the constant changes in rulings aud the constant reductions wliioh kept them unsettled ; of tbe a Ivice to buy land, improve hocks, build barns, elc, with the understanding they would be given giv-en preference ; they denifid lht further fur-ther restriction will prevent floods and insisted the benefits from live stock industry were far greater thn damage from floods; and made many points against the reserve management. manage-ment. Generally it was h strong protest pro-test against the late order, for which tbey insist tilers ia no occieion aa tbe range is not ovnr fd, and an appeal that the industry be not ruined . An appeal was made to the congressional con-gressional delegation nUiog their assistance in preventing a reduction of the tariff on wool. After tbe meeting was over Supervisor Super-visor Smith said to thft Pyramid that he wa not yet convinced tbat the recent re-cent reduc'iuu was wrong. It was |