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Show Utah Strongly Favors Federal Control of the Public Domain That Utah favors federal control of the Public Domain is strongly indicated in-dicated by the unamious adoption of a proposal to that effect presented in Salt Lake City, before a representative represent-ative group of farmers, sheepmen, cattlemen and citizens at large from twenty-five of the twenty nine counties co-unties of the state, on October 6, 1927. Besides adopting the resolution favoring federal control, the group considered at length the following proposals which, it was decided, mall constitute the basis of bill now be'ng prepared for presentation to Congress: 1. Due Consideration and protection pro-tection for local settler and home builder. 2. Protection for the established useir. 3. A reservation for higher use. 4. Grazing control should perta n to the forage resource only 5. A tenure of use that will assure as-sure adequate stability to livestock- Indusry. 6. Provision for group rather than individual winter" range allotments allot-ments where necessary. 7. The fullest local or self rgoven-ment, rgoven-ment, consistent with the needs of the range, that can be applied, espec-'ally espec-'ally with reference to whom shall be entitled to graze, the number of stock an individual may graze, etc. 8. Restoration of the forage crop to the highest economical production 9. The adequate protection of watersheds from .standpoint of water Jdpply, flood control and erosion control. con-trol. 10. Due consideration fo.r conservation conser-vation of wild life and protection of recreational interests. 11. That fees charged shall be the lowest possible consistent with returns. re-turns. The Salt Lake meeting was the last rnd largest of a series of meetings held during the summer by a number if men who feel that centralized con-rol con-rol of the public domain is essential to its full utilization. The first meeting was in connection with the Uintah Basin Industrial Convention held early in August at Fart Duchesne. Duches-ne. The public domain question was then discussed fironi various angles by different speakers, including commissioner com-missioner William Spry of the general land office, Congressman Don B. Colton and Dr. George Stewart, au-:hor au-:hor of the Utah Experiment Station bulletin "This Public Domain of Ours Congressman Colton again discussed discus-sed the need of organized action in seeking control of the public domain ft a meeting of Forest Service officials, offic-ials, experiment station workers and range useis held August 16th. at the Great Basin Experiment Station on the Manti Forest near Ephraim. At that time, also Prof. William Peterson, Peter-son, director of the state experiment station and extension service, and several others spoke favorably of seeking control of public domain. The upshot of the Manti Forest meeting was the appointment of a committee, consisting of the following follow-ing men, to formulate a plan of action; act-ion; Director William Peterson, chairman; state senator W. D. Candland; Cand-land; J. M. Macfarlane, president ot the Utah Cattle and Horse Growers association; D. D. Mc Kay of the State Board of Agriculture; L. R. Ander-sou Ander-sou of Manti; David N. Beal, president presid-ent of the Utah State Farm Bureau; M. S. Winder, secretary of the Utah State Farm Bureau; H. W. Harvey president and Ja.mes Hooper, secretary secre-tary of the Utah Woolgrowers association; assoc-iation; Thomas Redmond, secretary of the Utah Horse and Cattle Growers; Grow-ers; and W:lliani Baiiley of Nephi. former chairman of the state board of equalization. ! On August 3 0th. a meeting called by this committee was held in Salt Lake City, at which the following were present: Dii'.ectoir William Peterson, Pet-erson, senator Candland, Messrs Beal Mc Kay, Winder, Macfarlane, Red-' Red-' mond, Lee R. Taylor of Payson, Dr. George Thomas, president of the University Un-iversity of Utah; T. W. Peterson of Hyrum, C. L. Forsling of the Forest Experiment Station, and Dana Parkinson Park-inson of the Forest Service. A permanent per-manent oiiganization was formed, with Director Peterson as permanent chairman, and M. S. Winder secretary It was at the August 30th. meeting that the .resolution favoring federal control of the public domain was first adopted by unanimous vote. It was at that time also that the proposals, aleady listed above, were discussed and approved. The committee the:, decided to call a meeting to be held during State Fair week in Salt Lake City, at which should be invited one farmer, a sheepman, a cattleman and a citizen at lair'ge from each county of the state. Upon this invitation representatives representa-tives of twenty-five counties gathered gather-ed in Salt Lake City October 6th. and spent the entire day considering the problem of controlling public domain United States Senator .William H. K;ng was present and participated in the discussion. The net results of this meeting were: first the adoption of the resolution favoring federal control; second, the adoption of the eleven proposals ; and, third, the appointment ap-pointment of a committee to diraft a bill embodying the eleven proposals. This committee consists of director William Peterson chairman: Congressman Con-gressman Don B. Colton, senator W. D. Candland, J. M. Macfarlane and William Bailey. It is proposed by this committee to draft a (bill as directed, dir-ected, and then to call another meeting meet-ing of represenative c tizens at which the proposed b.ll will be presented for approval before being presented to Congvess. The 'proposed bill, the committee believes, will be drafted and ready for submission to the people of Utah sometime during November. |
