Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-07

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Pursuant to call and invitation, issued
in the names Of Chas. Ilfeld, Gross, Black
well & Co., Myer Friedman & Bro. and
Browne q Manxnnares Co., about 100 gen.
tlemen, Interested In wool aud wool-grow-
ing, assembled in the city hall OF East Las
Vegas at 10 O'Clock, this forenoon, for the
purpose of organizing a Territorial Wool.
Growers association.
Don Pedro Pcrea, Of Bernnlillo county,
was elected temporary chairman, and
George Arnot, OF San Miguel county, tenn
porary secretary.
Sol Luna, Of Valencia county, moved
that the temporary organization be made
permanent, and that Ia addition a vice.
president be elected from each county In
the Territory, said officers to be named by
the delegates representing their respt ctive
counties in the convention. The motion
was carried.
A. NJ. Blackwell, of this city, offered a
motion to the effect that a committee of
three he ar. ointed by the presiding officer
to frame b bylaws for the guidance Of the
members of the convention and associa-
ton. The motion was amended SO as to
read five members, instead of three, and
the following gentlemen were appointed to
act on this committee. ciz: NJ. W.
Browne, East Las Vegas; Eutimio Mon
toya, Sap Antonio; Myer Friedman, Las
Vegas Louis Ilfeld, Albuquerque A. M.
Blackwell, East Las Vegas.
The vice. presidents for each county
were then elected, as follows, viS.:
Bernalillo county, Wm. Mcintosh; Cha
YES county, W. s. Prayer; Colfax county,
Jerome Troy; Dona Ana county, e. H.
ArmiJo; Eddy county, Mr.. = Sanders;
Grant county. L. Burdick; Guadalupe
county, J. G.. Clancy Lincoln county,
Jones Taliaferro; Mora county, Acorcinio
Martinez; Rio Arriba county, I. d. Burns;
San Juan county, Salome jacques; San Mi
guel county, Chas. Ilfeld Santa Fe coun-
ty, Juan Ortiz; Sierra county, H. Merten;
Socorro county, Eutimio Montoya Taos
county, Albert Muller; Union county,
Francisco Gallegos y Baca; Valencia
county, Victor Sais.
M. w. Browne, of this city, then moved
a committee on resolutions, composed
of five members, be appointed by the chair.
The motion prevailed, and the following
were named to act on this committee, vis.
Max Nordhaus, San Miguel county; Sol
Luna, Valencia county; Pedro Castillo,
Bernalillo county; Levi Hughes, Santa Fe
Juan Maria Blea, Guadalupe
Chas. Ilfeld presented a motion to the
effect that the Hon. I. B.. Catron, delegate
TO congress, be requested to deliver an adj
iress to the convention. The motion was
and it was arranged that Mr.. Cat
sion.
Letters from Hon. Geo. H. Wallace, presi-
of the Missouri Wool. Growers asso-
Captain J. G. Clancy, of Ell Alamo
and Messrs. Phillips & Glen, were
read. In their letters, these gentlemen ex-
their hearty approval Of the move
ment to establish a Terri orial W. ol-Grow-
ers' association, expressed regret at their
Inability to be present, and rendered time.
suggestions in regard to matters that
come before the convention. On
which was unanimously carried,
q vote of thanks was rendered these gem
tlemen for the interest they had taken in
the movement.
Mr.. Catron suggested that a committee
on permanent organization be appointed,
upon which a motion was offered increas-
ing the committee on bylaws to five mem
)ers instead of three, and that these five
members act both as a committee ON by
avs and permanent organization. The
notion prevailed and the gentlemen named
were appointed to act.
1t was then moved that the convention
djourn until 4 O'Clock, this afternoon, in
rder to give the various committees an
to act upon the business placed
4 their hands by the convention. The
notion carried and the meeting adjourned.