The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-10-07
WOOL GROW
ERS MEET
The subjeetof the Forest
Reserve Discussed
Congressman Tongue and Moody, Captain
Ormsby and Others in Attendance.

A large numbe of the most prom.
! inent sheepmen of Wasco county,
Congressman. M. A. Moody and
Thnmas Tongue, CAPTAIN Ormsby,
! superintendent of the forest reserve,
| Judge Mays, county judge of this
! county and the representatives of the
o. r & N, Great Northern, North
/. Western and other railroad lines met
in the parlors of The Dalles Com
mercial club at 10 CLOCK this morning
| to further consider the all important
subject of the Cascade forest reserve.
! The meeting opened with an inform.
al talk by those present.. The subject
being the Injury done to tho forests
by the sheep grazing thereon.
II was argued by the best authorities
that the sheep do not have a tendancy
| to injure the trees which are found in
! our forests while oD the other hand it
was argued that the grazing of sheep
on the reserve keeps down the grass
and by so doing prevents the destruc-
tive forest fires from spreading and
destroying the trees old and young.
Captain Ormsby, who from his per-
sonal observations as well as from the
forestry wardens and rangers lis fully
capable of passing judgement on the
subject expressed the opinion THAI the
sheepmen are charged with too much Ia
the way of injuring the forest. While
he is in favor of keeping the sheep of
the reserve in certain vicinities, at the
head waters of streams, he is nOt In
favor of excluding the sheep from the
entire reserve.
AT II o'clock tho meeting was called
to order by George Young, president
of the Oregon Wooigrowers Associa-
Lion. In short speech he stated that
the object of the meeting was to con
slider the Ominous stand taken by the
officials in Washington in regard 10
the exclusion of sheep from the forest
reserves and TO try and perfect some
arrangements so that the sheep would
not be excluded and Lhe industry
ruined.
4 A letter from Senator Mcbride from
New York city was read by acting
secretary A. r. Thompson ia which |
he stated that while it would be i'm.
possible for him to attend the meeting |
OF the association he would do all In |
his power to, promote the sheep in
dustry and help the sheepmen to get
leases on the forest grazing lands.
A letter was also received from
Senator Joseph Simon in WHICH he
states he will take up the matter with
the delegation at the next meeting
and do what he can to help the sheep
-aisers.
A letter was also read from James
Witty combe, of Corvallis. president
If the Northwest Wool Growers AS
in which he sympathizes
With the sheepmen and states that the /,
of the sheep from the forest
eserve will increase the danger OF
crest fires. {
He fatty denies the statement 80
ften made that sheep injure our young
rees as it is fact that sheep will not
BED on any variety of cone bearing c
rees either young or old. He states c
hat the assertion that sheepmen are I
for the forest fires is false 7
j the extreme. Y
AS number of the prominent mem.
ers were not present and as they were
kpecteo this afternoon on motion the a
Ieeung adjourned until p. NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The afternoon session of the Wool o
rowers Association was called to
der shortly before 3 o'clock by
resident George Young.
MIR. Young suggested that Mr.. OF
rmsby address the meeting He re. S,
onded by reading the orders he re- bl
ived from the department shortly 81
ter his .appointment and told how th