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Show SHEEPMEN FAIL SN THEIR MISSION Forest Service Will Not Increase the Allotments on the Cache National Na-tional Forest Owners of Small Bands of Sheep Are To Be Protected by the Foresters. tho small owners of cattle of the country out of busine?s. Mr. Tenn also stated that the reductions re-ductions in the allotments were made for the purpose of giving to the small sheep owner, residing near the forest reserves, equal advantages In the use of the grazing lands of the forest with tho larger owner, the latter often times leing transient. The allotment has been reduced to 1.000 head for each Individual, and it will not be reduced below that figure, fig-ure, said the forester, but he could not give the committee any assurance as to whether it would be increased. The Impression prevails that the allotment al-lotment will not le Increased above the 1.000 mark. The foresters say that it Is the policy pol-icy of the service to protect the small owners against the encroachments of the larger ones, and that It Is more than likely that the rule will not be changed in the near future. Some of the sheepmen who range j their sheep on the Cache national for- est in the summer timo have a grlev-I grlev-I anco against the forest service department de-partment because of, the alleged manner man-ner in w hich, the foresters conduct the grazing privileges, and they have aired that grievance before the head of the department here, the question being submitted particularly to Homer Fenn, who js at the head of the grazing department in the Ogden district. A committee representing the flock-masters flock-masters who use the Cache grazing lands appeared before the forest serv- ice department here yesterday after- noon and personally made complaint to Mr. Fenn. The committee was composed com-posed of Qnil Ncbeker, Rich county; E. R, Sumners, Paradise; T. W. Peterson, Pe-terson, Cache county; J. T. Torge- j son, Bear River City, and John Spiers of Ogden. I The complaint registered by the I committee was that the allotment of sheep for the Cache forest reserve has been reduced to a point where the man with anything like a large herd of sheep cannot enter the ranges ' there, and that it makes it a losing proposition for him to cut his herd into smaller bunches and graze them in different sections of the country. They claim that the reduction In the allotments is altogether in favor of the speculator who buys a small bunch of sheep and grazes them on the forest for-est rcserte for a short time and sells out at a large profit, excluding the flockma&ter with a substantial herd of sheep. The sheepmen say they are being discriminated against in the rules re-i re-i gardinp tho grazing of cattle and I sheep on the range. The sheep herds, they maintain, are required to remain In a well defined district and are not permitted to Infringe upon any other territory, while the cattle herds are turned loose and permitted to go where they may. It i& also said that the ratio for grazing as fixed by the forest service is five sheep for every head of cattle, but the price charged for the grazing privilege does not conform with this ratio, in that the charge for sheep is C',i cents a head and only 25 cents a head for cattle The ratio should be, according to the figuring of the fcheepmen, 5 to 1, it now being only about 4 to 1. The forest people were requested to increase the allotment rather than reduce re-duce It. and to compel cattlemen to keep their stock on specified ranges, the same as the sheepmen are required requir-ed to do, and that the proper ratio between be-tween the Rrazlng of cattle and sheep be maintained. The latter was discussed In a friendly friend-ly way by Ihe members of the committee com-mittee for the pheepmen of the Cacho forest and the forest service meu, different dif-ferent views respecting the situation beinc freely voiced, at the conclusion of which Mr, Fenn advised the committee com-mittee that it would be absolutely impossible to enforce the rule of herding herd-ing cattle as sheep are herded, for to do that would practically drive all |