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Show WOOL GROWERS HOLD ANNUAL CONVENTION About seventy-live members of the Sanpete Wool Growers' association met in Ephraim Monday at the animal an-imal convention of that, association: The election of officers resulted in the re-election of the old members, J. C Jordan of Mount Pleasant, 'president; J. C. Mellor of Manti, vice president, and George Christensen of Mount Pleasant, secretary-treasurer. One change was made in the advisory advis-ory board, G. Q. Crawford of this city being named instead of N. C. Christensen. The association passed a resolution resolu-tion endorsing the action oT President Presi-dent Wilson in the German situation. The advisory board was requested) to locate proper trails to the desert ranges and grazing grounds' around shearing corrals. The coirventiou endorsed the Hammond Ham-mond bill levying a grazing tax of 15 cents a head on transient sheep grazing in this state, and the same tax on cattle as that applied by the various states on Utah cattle. This 'bill had been endorsed by the association asso-ciation previously by petition. Thp advisory board was authorized to proceed with the gathering of stray sheep, this work to be done but once a year, in the spring. An assessment of $1.00 per hundred hund-red head of all sheep with permits on the forest reserve, was levied to assist as-sist in poisoning predatory animals and repairing forest roads. |