Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-21
ADDRESS TO Utah STOCEMEN.
Meeting to he Held In This city April Sth
and 0th-All Cattle. Horse and sheep
Growers in Utah Invited.

Chairman Leary and Secretary
Christensen of the proposed state
Protective association OF Stockgrowers
have issued an official call to the cat
tie, horse and sheep men Of Utah ask
ing them to attend meeting In this
city on April Sth and 9th when It is
proposed to effect u permanent stock
growers association. The call is as
follows:
ITO Utah Stockmen-Thls state is
without a strong central organization
of owners to protect and promote ITS
live stock interests. II is believed
that such an association is needed ana
that the time is propitious for its
formation.
AT a preliminary meeting held in
Salt Lake ON the 18th of January for
discussion of the subject, the senti-
ments voiced unanimously favored the
organization of State association.
The attendance at the January meet
ing was not sufficiently general, or
numerous to warrant the completion
| of the organization at that time. y
| temporary association was enected,
| however, and its officers directed to is
sue call for Il gathering of all live
stock owners In Utah to meet in salt
Lake, early in April, to discuss the adj
visibility of perfectlng an association,
| to be known as the Utah Live Stock as
| ISOLATION.
"This manifesto IS published and
directed to you under the authority
mentioned and at its direction. At the
meeting named. the belief was general
" expressed that cowmen and sheep
! men could and ought to unite in Great
Ing a State association for the protec-
ton of their herds and flocks against
| thefts; that working together. and in
l M In ust.
| ganized on similar lines. better and
| bigger consideration for their respec-
tive interests could be secured than If
sought for singly: and finally 1t was
urged that the differences which have
| frequently existed between COW and
sheep interests in the state, and occa-
stoned friction, could be more salts
factorily adjusted among co-members
of central association than they are
now handled through courts, personal
alterations or other equally veXntious
and indeterminate methods.
"'rhe service rendered TO the live
stock interests of other states by their
central associations has been Of con-
tinuous and lasting Importance and 1t
argues for the creation of a similar
body here. The general laws are in
tended to prevent thefts among herds
and nocks, but they have been found
insufficient elsewhere unless the officers
have been aided in the enforcement by
the experts of the association. Trans
portation companies, stock yards com
panies, commission merchants and
other agencies which figure for n por-
tion of the value of the output of Utah
products are as considerate and liberia
in the assessment of charges for hand
ling live stock as they are anywhere
in the country and the former have
repeatedly shown In recent acts n con
spicuous Willingness to foster and favoi
: the cattle and sheep interests tributar,
to them in the face of strong oppos
itlon from connecting lines.
"a continuance OF this friendlines
from our home railways may be ex
pected II their friendship Is cultivated
, and the means of expressing 1t is cap
ably and authorltatively pointed on
to officials; and upon proper solicita
ton, there is little doubt that other i'm
portant benefits can be procured from
time to time from those and the othe
sources mentioned.
1t is for these reasons the purnos
] of giving the live stock interests of TIL
+ State an official standing, and a med
. ium through which their views can b.
officially conveyed at all times upoI
2 pertinent questions. that a State as
? ISOLATION is thought to be desirable; AM
the meeting for n more extended dis
cussion of Its advisability Is hereb,
called for the seventh and eighth o
/. April. Conference week. in Salt LAX
under the authority above stated.
, "All cattle. sheep and horse grower
= in the State and all other owners o
dependents upon these industries, ar
e urged to be present and participate II
I the deliberations; and the local rail
Q way companies and stock yards com
panies are also invited to he pres ant an
< take part in the preliminary discussion
{ Low rates have already been announce
' by the railway companies for attendar
r upon the Saints Conference, and n
{ stockmen can avail themselves of thes,
/ 1t is earnestly hoped that this importan
/ movement to Utah's live stock inter
/ ests Will call out for this meeting a bi
r attendance of live stock people.
A -. G. LI1ARY
chairman PRO tenn.
FRANK CHRISTENSEN,
'Sncretnry pro fem