The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-21
WORK oF oRGANIzArroN.

Hon. AquiIla Nebeker Chairman-Gover-
nOr's Welcome and Responses.
The convention was not called to order
until nearly II o'clock. Secretary Arm
strong announced that President Orlando
North of Humboldt county, New, was
not present, and on motion of J. A
Waite Of Kansas City, Mo-, Hon. Aquilla
Nebeker OF Randolph, Utah, was nomin-
ated Tor temporary chairman.
Mr.. Nebeker accepted in a lew remarks
in which he said he hoped the delibera-
tlons OF this, the second annual conven-
ton OF the Inter Mountain Stock Grow
ers' association would be filed with
wisdom.
COMMITTEES NAMED.
After the usual preliminaries, the work
of organization began by the naming Of
the following committees:
On Credentials-C. w. Black, Kansas
City, Mo-; Bruce Mccullough, South
Omaha, Neb.; j. M. Langsdorf. Ogden,
Utah; Joseph Hatch, Meeker, Colo; r.
A. Caldwell, Oxford, Ida.
On Resolutions. A. Allen, Kansas
City, Mo-; Col. E. P. Savage, South
Omaha, Neb.; E. R. Ridgely, Ogden, Utah;
M. II. Mark, Denver, Colo; Jacob West,
| Chesterfield, Ida. This committee has
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each delegation as it arrives.
Mayor Lundy announced that Governor
Thomas would arrive at 1880 O'Clock on a
special train, and suggested that it would
| be mark of courtesy to adjourn until
such hour as the governor could meet the
convention.
Recess was then taken until D. m,
during which time the committee on
J credentials met and worked on its report.
but did not finish it, however.
Governor Thomas arrived over the Rio
| Grande Western at 1920 o'clock, and was
met at the depot by reception commit
tee composed of Major Elliott, Mayor
Lundy and Mayor Kiesel, who escorted
him to a waiting carriage, and the party
was driven to the Reed, headed by the
band.
A few minutes after O'Clock chairman
Nebeker called the convention to order
and the band rendered one OF its usually
beautiful selections. Neither of the COM
mittees being ready to report, the after
noon session was devoted to speech max
| ing.
WELCOMED BY THE GOVERNOR.
Chairman Nebeker introduced Governor
Thomas as a man thoroughly acquainted
with the necessities Of the cattle industry.
The governor, in accepting the invitation
of the chairman to welcome the visiting
| delegates, said in brief:
For the second time it becomes my
pleasant duty to extend to the cattle
mems convention of the inter mountain
country a welcome in behalf of the good
people of Ogden, in Utah territory and
/ the great west. The people of Utah have
felt an unusual interest in this gathering.
They have earnestly read all that has
been published concerning it. They have
done this because they feel that the stock
| industry is one OF the greatest industries
of the west. If you stop and reflect
q little and compare the vast area
of lands in the west with the
comparatively small area that can be irri-
gated of the entire "a 100000 OF acres,
you can easily understand the interest
taken in this industry, as the great
plains produce the nourishment for
countless herds of cattle. On account of
the many changes which have been ne
cessitated by the advances in civilization,
the great problem staring us in the face
is this: How can the arid lands be util-
lied and made to do their share towards
the support of the cattle industry?
ST had the esteemed honor conferred
on me OF calling together the irrigation
congress, which convened at Salt Lake in
| November, 1891. The convention was
we'll attended and among the delegates
were many men of prominence in the
councils of the country. That congress
congress OF the United States should cede
to the several states the unused lands
within their borders to promote the irri-
CATION and industries of the west. II such
a policy should be adopted it would enable
the states and territories of the west TO
secure the interests of all men to make
fruitful the now arid lands. We should
now devolve plan to foster the industry
so near our hearts. We can serve the
people of the west no better than by pre-
serving policy that will devise means
whereby to secure to the people cheap and
pure food, which can largely be done
through the cattle industry.
''Utah is glad that SO many have come
together from so far to meet with us in
that from these deliberations will grow 4
sentiment that will spread abroad and
produce good results. On behalf of Og-
den, heartily welcome you here"
MR.. NEFF's RESPONSE.
J.H. Neff, editor of the DroUer's Tszs-
qram, Kansas City, was introduced, and
on behalf of the Kansas delegation re-
sponed to the welcome extended to the
/ visiting delegates by Governor Thomas.
In q few well chosen words he paid Ogden
and her people and the territory at large q
warm eulogy. Speaking On the sub
iect most germaDe to the con-
gress - the live sock industry - he
said Utah's most prominent and import
ant Industries were live stock and min
ling. and Kansas las live stock and grain,
and while her live stock were grown
under very different circumstances ard
systems, the results were practically the
same as in Utah, and what interested the
one section must therefore of necessity
likewise interest the other. Range pro-
lection and proper transportation facil-