The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-17
THE BOVINEs ON THE PLAINS.
Something Concerning Them as Told In

Something Concerning Them as Told In tn,
Report OF the Secretary of tie Vyominl
Stock Grotrers' Associutio,s.
The twelfth annual convention Of the wy
oming Stock Growers association met al
cheyenne, Wyoming, on the 9th. Judge Carey
presided. The attendance was large. Sixty
seven new members were admitted. The day
was taken up with routine business, the cleo
ton of officers of the roundup districts and
reading of Secretary Sturges' report, which
was adopted. The views embodied in the re-
port were adopted as representing the pre-
dominating sentiment of the association. 1t
reviewed the work Of the association during
the twelve years Of its existence aud spoke Of
its remarkable growth in members, beginning
in April, 1870, with ten members, and repre-
senting a total of 1000 head of cattle valued
at $3.50, eco. IL has to-day swelled its member
ship forty fold and representing an ownership
OF 2 CO0,0O head of cattle and a valuation in-
GLIDING horses, plant and real estate of $780,
0OO,O0O. The association prepared brand
law, which protects the record of previous
ownership and secured the enactment of the
trst sanitary law for protection against cattle
disease, which was passed west Of the Ale
ghauies, excepting only those Of the state of
Illinois.
The report, speaking Of pleuro-pneumonia
says: Their Investigations, outside of the
statements of government officials, leave no
doubt that it has this year appeared in four
prominent western states, all further west
than any previous development, viz: illinois.
Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri. The disease is
to-day confined within narrow boundaries and
each known avenue for its extension is guard
ed, but the disease is as tenacious as it is slow
and insidious, and the committee was unani-
nous in the opinion that a reasonable dcten-
ton in quarantine before entering Wyoming
should be at once imposed on all stock coming
from the tast.p
The report then touches upon the more re-
cent iabors OF the association and speaks Of
the investigation as to the existence of Texas
fever. In regard to this question Secretary
Sturg1s ana a special committee, which thor
oughly investigated the subject, declare:
First. That Texas cattle brought from the
southern part OF Texas are dangerous to our
cattle 1or sixty days from the time said south
ern Texans leave their native range. Any
method OF bringing them which places them
on our ranges in less than that time should be
discouraged, and cattle SO brought should be
refused admittance.
Second. That the same cattle can be brought
among our stock after said sixty days have ex-
pired with entire safety to us.
Regarding the project of a national trail the
report says: THE Wyoming association can
take no other position than they would upon a
proposition to expend national funds for the
advancement OF any special industry in any
other state of the union.
The report speaks of the important Ques-
tons OF granting lands as follows: ''Among
the new questions arising, one imperatir rely
demands attention, namely, the use of govern
ment lands for granting. The eastern public,
who gladly hailed our production of cheap
beef ten years ago, welcomed US TO use of the
barren plateau where we risked our lives daily
against the Indian, has now no milder term
for US than bullock barons and aristocrats of
The plains. Every possible misrcpres entation
S made in the public prints. Though we have {
quilt up the OIL industry practicable on these
rid, sandy praries, created millions of taxable :
congress is daily urged to a crusade l
lgainst us, as though we were a class whose I
was a by word Of reproach, whose de- '
truction would be a commendable act. The
principal crimes laid Mt cur door are:
First-That we obstruct and prevent by force
nd violence the settlement of these lands by
he farmer. D
Second-That we pay nothing for the use of
he lands over which our herds Craze. 1t S n
to say to deaf ears at the east that =
bout 50 per cent of these lands, carefully es- ="
can never by any system produce
rain, that ten per cent Is mountain and can :.
on and That on the other 10 per cent the set ,s
er is daily entering without ninderance. We -,
re weary OF asking our eastern critics how we :.
IN reimburse the government when that gov u
will neither sell nor lease. But as we N
re threatened with hasty, ignorant legislation n,
every session., is 1t not wise to place this g.,
on record as denying the charges -
against US, stating in general terms our
esire Tor an equitable adjustment of the Ques- III
We do not wish to precipitate the mat III
n, but such an expression would be a power
weapon in the hands of our FRIENDS IN CON J"
when called upon to speaker our behalf. OF
he committe hope such resolutions will be W
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