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Show Grazing Fee Raise Wiil Be Reviewed Announcement that the forest service ser-vice range appraisal report is to be thoroughly reviewed and given a thorough study by a non-partisan advisor by Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and that no action will be taken upon the report as it now stands, calling for an increased grazing fee for those using the forest ranges, will be welcome news to the many permittees in this section. According Ac-cording to advices received from Ogden, Dan B. Casement of Manhattan, Manhat-tan, Kan., has been named as a special spe-cial representative' to review the report re-port and with the fact that Casement is a farmer and at present holds a permit on -the Uncompahgre National Nation-al forest of Colorado, where he is ranging cattle, it is thought that a fair and impartial adjudication of the prices will be made. The special representative will begin be-gin his work about January 1st of the coming year, and will not only review the Forest Service records, but will spend some time in the western west-ern states in interviewing stockmen and examining typical National for ests and private land ranges. Commenting upon this appointment, appoint-ment, Secretary Jardine stated: "For some time I have been endeavoring en-deavoring to secure the services of a competent, experienced man for reviewing re-viewing the work done by the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture Agri-culture in arriving at a grazing fee to be charged on the National Forests For-ests for all classes of livestock. "It will be remembered . that the Department of . Agriculture under certain commitments to the Agricultural Agricul-tural Appropriations Committee in 1919 and 1920, agreed to make a careful survey of the whole question of grazing fees on the National Forests For-ests and be prepared to recommend a fee at the expiration of the term permits which were issued in 1919 and terminated in 1923. "Due to depression in the livestock industry the date when the new fees were to become effective was postponed post-poned to 1924, and for the same reason rea-son was again postponed, to become effective at the beginning of 1927. "After the appraisal of National Forest ranges was completed and submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture Agri-culture by the Forest Service, considerable consid-erable opposition on the" part of the stockmen to the fees arrived at: developed. de-veloped. As a means of reconciling the differences of opinion the Chief Forester of the United States For-1 For-1 est Service recommended to me the ' appointment of a special representa-1 representa-1 tive to review the work of the Forest " Service and advise me accordingly." , . |