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Show Western Utah Public Domain To Form One Huge District John P. Barton, Frank D. Williams and Walter James Included On Committee Organization under the Taylor act" of one western Utah grazing district instead of three districts as previously previ-ously planned, was effected Monday in Salt Lake at a meeting of 478 cattle and sheep men. The district comprises 15,000,000 acres of land in western Utah, virtually all the public domain lands of the west half of the state. The Monday meeting was one of three different meetings which had been scheduled to be held for as many proposed districts for the west part of the state, one of these meetings meet-ings having been scheduled for December De-cember 18 at Milford. With these developments, however, it is presumed pre-sumed that this meeting will not be held. F. II. Carpenter, director of federal grazing under the interior department, depart-ment, presided at the forenoon and afternoon sessions, at which western Utah livestock interests voted unanimously unani-mously to extend the originally planned west central Utah grazing district, with 5,000,000 acres, into the larger area. He was assisted at the hearing by Archie D. Ryan, Salt Lake City, special agent in charge of the division of investigation, department of the interior, and J. F. Deeds of Washington, D. C, chief of the agricultural agri-cultural division, U. S. geological survey. Advantages of the larger district were explained at the forenoon session ses-sion by Mr. Carpenter, who pointed out that general administrative problems prob-lems would be facilitated and economized, econ-omized, and that stock growers would be afforded the same protection in the larger as the small districts. J. M. Macfarlane, president of the Utah Cattle and Horse Growers' association, associa-tion, and S. M. Jorgensen, vice president presi-dent of the Utah Woolgrowers' association, asso-ciation, also spoke in favor of the larger district. Because of the livestock men's actions, ac-tions, meetings scheduled to form smaller districts in the Sevier-Esca-lante and Box Elder regions were called off. A meeting of eastern Utah livestock live-stock men, which was to have been held November 2 at Vernal, will be held at Price November 3, according to Mr. Carpenter. The eastern Utah group is expected to organize into one district as a preliminary to creating cre-ating smaller districts later, based on geographical and stock conditions. During the afternoon session, Mr. Carpenter answered questions brought forth by delegates to the meeting, and explained that the Taylor act has a two fold purpose, to conserve the range on the public domain for the livestock industry, and to regulate regu-late grazing for the benefit of the industry as a whole. In issuing grazing graz-ing permits he said "grazing privileges privi-leges recognized in local communities would receive consideration," and that present users of range lands would not have their interests jeopardized, jeop-ardized, although "perhaps a horizontal horizon-tal cut may be made for conservation purposes." The administration intends to coop-crate coop-crate with livestock interests in each district and, for that purpose, sheep and cattle growers Monday named a district advisory committee to survey sur-vey needs in the district' and recommend recom-mend policies to the interior department. depart-ment. When the act reaches its administrative ad-ministrative stage, Mr. Carpenter said, smaller, local advisory groups would be organized and consulted. Among the questions facing administration admin-istration of the Taylor act, Mr. Carpenter Car-penter explained, is the problem of iioucitizeiis on the public domain, holders of preferential grazing privileges, privi-leges, holders of prior rights and the treatment of transient livestock operators. oper-ators. "Before any permits are issued," is-sued," he said, "wo must start in any district to build up tho district's grazing possibilities." He also added that, under the Taylor Tay-lor act, there is" no attempt to solidify classes," and thai persons wishing to enter the livestock business may do so, providing they can qualify with regulations under the law. The cattlemen's district advisory commission is composed of George Staples, Morgan, Weber and Davis counties; Burt Eliasou, Cache and Boxelder counties; John F. Barton, Piute. Beaver and Sevier counties; Jet Johnson, Garfield and Kane counties; coun-ties; J. M. Macfarlane, Salt Lake county; Paul Wrethall, Tooele county; coun-ty; Bert Buraston, Utah county; C. (Continued on last page) VJ Public Domain Disirict (Continued from first page) N. Bagley, Juab county; Judge D. H. Morris, Washington and Iron counties, coun-ties, and Lawrence Christensen, Millard Mil-lard county. The sheepmen's committee includes J. B. White, Boxelder and Cache counties; Walter Dansie, Weber, Morgan and Davis counties; E. J. Jeremy and Selby Dixon, Tooele, Salt Lake and Utah counties; H. H. Stevens, Summit and Wasatch counties; coun-ties; W. D. Candland and Walter James, Sanpete, Juab and Millard counties; S. M. Jorgensen, Sevier and Piute counties, Frank Williams, Beaver Bea-ver and Garfield counties; Douglas Clark and Thomas Sevy, Iron Washington and Kane counties. Mr. Jorgensen is chairman of the committee. com-mittee. . o |