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Show Applications Crowd Department Office Oscar Chapman, assistant secretary secre-tary of the interior, said last week on his return from a series of conferences con-ferences in the mountain states, that already applications had been received re-ceived for the establishment of more grazing districts under the newly enacted en-acted Taylor grazing act than could be organized in the next six months. Chapman and his fact fisding committee com-mittee held hearings in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. He said the committee would leave Washington early in September to hold another series of preliminary conferences to discover the wishes and problems of stockmen and local officials in Nevada , New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington. "The stockmen with whom we talked on the trip are accepting the Taylor grazing bill 100 per cent," Chapman said. "They admit they have been ruining their own ranges by over-grazing and are anxious to have us cooperate in working out their problems. And that is what we intend to do. Chapman said grazing district No. 1 would be set up at Glenwood Springs, in western Colorado. A formal for-mal hearing has been called for this district on September 17. "We have found that there can be ' - ' no general application of detailed' j regulations to various grazing dis-j, tricts," Chapman aid. "Each local-ii ity in which grazing districts will be: established has individual problems i and conditions. Perhaps there can be a series of general regulations in j . the character of definitions adopted. ( for all districts, but even these prob-j, ably will have to be restricted in many of the districts. jj "While no definite policy has been i ; established a. yet, it is most proba- ble that the stockmen using the vari-jj ous districts will be asked to elect an t advisory committee to consult with'. the supervisor of the district. We , .expect that committee largely to ad-j, jmisister regulations within the dis-j, . trict. Stockmen using the range un-1, jder regulation will not permit a rival j to violate the rules, and thus the , users themselves probably will do most of the policing of the range." |