Show applications for razing grazing G permits permit 9 drop in number SALT LAKE CITY march 2 UP F federal grazing officials got ari an unexpected answer to their problem lem of reducing number of animals grazing on public domain today when figures showed considerable sid erable drops in ill applications for fo r grazing permits peral ts when filing period ended thursday found 1400 applications ns had been filed by eastern utah stock men and only by western owners last year 2000 eastern and 0 western growers asked permission bermiss i on to graze their animals on pu public baic lands grazing officials were at some loss to e explain the drop altho although ugh they indicated indic abed that single applications were we re filed for families of 0 f stock raisers where individual applications for each member had peen been filed heretofore |