The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-17
Mr.. MARTIN ARRIVES
Secretary of National Livestock
Association.
CONVENTION OUTLOOK
MEETING OF CITIZENS TO BE
HELD TODAY.

THE convention to be held in Salt
Lake by the National Livestock assoc
citation will be the greatest convention
in the history Of the organization, said
Secretary Charles f Martin last night,
just after his arrival at the Knutsford
from his home in Denver.
Mr.. Martin established his headquar-
ters at once in the Knutsford and will
be on the ground from now until after
! the convention. He was accompanied
to this city by his wife and his private
secretary. Miss Lulu Crow. who will
assist him in his work of advertising
the big meeting
You may look for from loo to 500
! delegates and fully 1000 strangers in
your city during the convention" said
Mr.. Martin: my correspondence shows
that delegates are coming in large
mum bers from all parts of the country.
The fine stock men viii be represented
at this convention as never before.
They are coming from the points farth-
est east. They are getting up a special
train at Denver; another special train
is coming from Texas, and this is but
beginning. Everything from every di--
/ recuOn points to rousing convention,
a regular record breaker"
Reasons for It.
why viii it be the greatest?" he
continued. well, there are several rea-
sons for it. In the first place. the Ma
t1onal Livestock association is a grow
ing organization, and is much larger
now than ever before. In the next
place, cattle men are a progressive set
of men, and have discovered that they
can accomplish much more working to-
crs4f aess %hnv
especially true of the west where the
cattle business can be carried on profit
ably only on a large scale. In the next
place, there are questions coming up
at this convention that are Of deep in
terest to all cattlemen, and they intend
to have a hand in the settlement of
them. 1t would be a long story to tell
about these questions. One of them is
the twenty-e ight-hour law that the
western men desire repealed in favor
Of a fOTty-hOur law. The present law
prohibits the keeping of cattle in cars
for more than twenty-eight hours with
out unloading them. That law is all
right for points near the markets, but
it is hard on the western shippers.
Western cattle do not suffer from riding
over tWenty-eight hours like stall fed
cattle in the east would; but they suffer
fortunes when they are punched full of
holes to get them off the cars to feed,
and are then punched full of holes
again to get them back on the cars
There are none against the modification
of this law except the humane societies.
and they do not understand the matter.
We viii gain our point on this matter
without much trouble.
Oleomargarir~ Bill.
Another thing thadue-e are after"
continued Mr.. Martin, &c the defeat of
the GrOat bin now before congress.
This bill is intended to wipe the manu-
facture of oleOmaTgaTine out of exist
ence- 1t is in the interest of some Of
the diaries of the east, and is against
the western cattle interest. OIeOmar-
gaFine, when properly made, is better
than much Of the butter put upon the /
market; it is demonstrated by the best
of chemists to be more healtbful than
butter, and there is no good reason for
the destruction of the industry Still
another matter of great interest to
come UP is the leasing from the govern
ment of the arid lands of the west for
grazing purposes. There was a commit
tee appointed at the Fort Worth con
ventiOn last winter to take up this sub
Ject- This committee will make a re-
port on that subject in this city Jan. |
b. Cattlemen all through the inter-
mountain region are deeply interested
in this subject, and II Will give rise to
Soiit very dDtc DISCUSSIONS at the con-
ventiOn. D."
Mr.. Ma -tin was highly eIated last !
night over the evidences of interest dis
played by Salt Lake people in the com
ing event. and he says that the officers
Of the association have never doubted
that the land Of Zion would distinguish
itself in this matter.
Today's Meeting.
The signs yesterday were excellent /
for large attendance at the meeting
to be held in the city and county build /
ing this afternoon. Governor Wells Sc /
cured the supreme court chamber for /!
the committee on arrangements last T
evening, and the members of the latter /
say everybody in Salt Lake wants to i
have hand in the reception and en-
tertainment of the longhorns and wool (
WindeTs next January.
The chairman Of the committee hopas /
that all the committees will be filled to
day by the meeting, and that these may
succeed in severaily organizing for the 4
work that is before the people in the !
next two months. If il is divided among
workers it VIII be light labor for every /
body, and much will be accomplished. |
If il is left for a few to perform, the /
duties viii be arduous and results I'M /