The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-16
Call For the National Association 5
Annual Convention.
TO BE HELD AT DENVER
SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO
BE CONSIDERED.
Uniform Bounty Law and American
Stock Exhibit at the Paris Expo
sition-DenTer Making Great Pre-
parations For the Meeting-Basis
of Representation.


Denver, Colo, Nov. 15.-President John
W. Springer of the National Live Stock
association has issued the following call
Tor the second annual conventions:
To the Members OF the National Live
Stock Association and All Parties Inter
eSted in the Breeding, Feeding and Mar
ketin= Of Live Stock in the United
States:
Dear Sirs: Pursuant to the action Of
the executive committee, j have the honor
to inform you that the second annual
convention of the National Live Stock
ASSOCIATION Will convene IN the razor
Grand opera house, Denver, on tuesday
morning, Jan. Il, 1899, at 10 o'clock. AS
business of great Importance to those in
terested in the various branches of the
stock industry. as well as the association
itself viii be presented for consideration,
you are earnestly requested to strongly
urge your local associations to send as
large delegations to the meeting as posi-
bic. and also to invite all who desire to
come as visitors TO do so.
The basis Of representation at the an
nual meeting will be one delegate at large
from each state and territory, to be APP
pointed by the governor thereof.
Zach state ana territorial range asSoc1a-
ton of cattle. horse, sheep and swine
breeders shall be entitled to one delegate
for every 10000 head of stock represented
by such organization.
taTy board shall be entitled to three dele
gates.
Each state board of agriculture and
to one delegate,
Each live stock commission exchange
shal be entitled to one delegate at large
and one for every % members thereof.
Each stockyard company shall be en-
titled to one delegate.
Each chamber of commerce shall be en-
iltled TO one delegate for every 100 mem
bers.
Each state dairymen's association shall
be entitled to one delegate.
Each state Irrigation organization shall
be entitled one delegate.
All live stock associations of the United
States shall be entitled to membership in
this association upon the payment of a
membership fee of SO and an additional
sum of % cents per LOCO head Of stock
represented by such members, and all
other organizations not included in the
above shall be assessed $3.50 per annum
for each delegate.
In all counties not having regular stock
organizations. the county commissioners
OF such county may appoint i've dele
gates from that county from among the
stockmen, each to pay an annual fee of
$3.50.
While any of the above organizations
are cordially invited to send delegates,
your attention is called to the fact that,
according to the constitution of this asso-
clauOn, no delegate can be allowed to
actively participate in the proceedings of
the convention unless his local association
is a member of the national association.
For this reason you are asked to impress
upon the members of Youy home organiza-
zion the Importance of making applica-
ton for admission to this association at
the earliest possible day, if they have not
already done So. -..-7- .. .
Among the propositions which have been
referred to this association, and which the
convention will be asked to either endorse
or condemn, are the enactment of a uni
form bounty law in each state and terri
tory; the importance of an exhibit of
American stock at the Paris exposition in
1900: the passage of a law by congress
prohibiting the importation of breeding
animals physically unSound; the matter
Of terminal charges at the Chicago mar
ket: the extension of the 2S-hour law; the
revocation of the recent order of the gov
eminent setting aside certain tracts of
lands in western states and territories as
forest reserves: the extension of the
feed-in-transit privilege to points east of
the Missouri river, and the question of
cedinG arid lands to the states Besides
these. many subjects of the utmost i'm
portance to Taisers, feeders. breeders and
dealers in live stock will be discussed in
papers edited by the most able thinkers in
the United States.
The citizens of Denver, whose guests we
viii be on this occasion. are making eX-
tensive preparations for a most interest
ing meeting. Plans have been made and
are now being published for a national
exhibition of range cattle to be held in
Denver during the convention. This will
be one of the most novel and instructive
exhibitions for cattlemen in ali branches
of industry. ever held. The cattle for eX-
hibition Will only be accepted in carload
lots. and Will come from all sections of
the west. 1t will offer an opportunity for
the western range breeder to show what
he has been doing. and to the feeder and
dealer an opportunity to see what the
west is doing in the way of improving the
herds. Indications are that the exhibition
will be a huge success in every way, and
ii should prove an additional attraction
to members.
The convention will probably be the
most important business meeting of stock
men ever held in the history of the coun-
try The matters to be discussed will be
of\national Importance TO the live stock
industry. and as the association now prac-
tically represents every branch of the in
dustry, its voice will be needed by all
legislative bodies in the country as the
unanimous voice of the stockmen of the
country.
1t is earnestly hoped that those organ
iZations of stockmen or kindred interests
which have not yet completed the neces-
sary formalities for becoming members of
the national association viii do so at the
earliest possible momen1, as we desire the
convention to be as full and representa-
tive as possible.
JOHN w. SPRINGER, President,
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