, 1900-01-04
STOCK CONVENTION
EXTENSIVE PLANS BEING LAID
FOR THE THIRD ANNUAL
SESSION.
Meeting Begins at Fort Worth, Texas,
on Tuesday, January 10th, Lasting
Four Days-Stockmen From All
Over the Country Will Attend
Extensive Program Prepared.

There is much interest manifest in
Laramie in the coming third annual
session of the National Live Stock as
| ISOLATION which meet at Fort Worth,
Texas, on January 16, II, IS and 10, and
a number of prominent Laramie stock
men are contemplating taking in this
affair, which in addition to the local
feature of a gathering of men from all
over the country to discuss matters of
vital importance to themselves and
their line of business, there Is the new
and excellent opportunity to visit the
section of the United States which is q
coming empire and is now fast becom-
ing the gateway of commerce from Eu-
rope. Africa and South America to that
portion of the United States lying be-
tween the Rocky mountains and the
Mississippi river valley.
The railroads which are being built
from the Gulf ports to the northwest
territory are assisting in developing
at a rapid rate this section while
steamship lines coming from European,
Oriental and other American ports ar
rive in great numbers, bringing and
taking out merchandise.
To the resident of Wyoming and 9TH
er neighboring states, this is a new and
most interesting event in the history
of the development of the northwest
and lying about the Gulf of Mexico is a
vast expanse of country, a western EN-
pire with its cotton fields, its large
areas of land suited for various agri-
cultural purposes and its broad ex-
panse of prairie over which roams
countless herds whose total equals only
the great herds Of buffalo which once
swarmed over the western plains.
The live stock industry is a great one
and commands the brains, Drawn and
capital of some of the best men in the
United States and the associ-
ated with types of this profession is
now being crystalized into history for
the generations to come when the long
horned Texas steer shall be no more
and the cowboy shall have ceased to
become a prominent factor in western
civilization.
Among the numerous matters of i'm
p%ortance to live stock men which the
National Live Stock association has
been theoretically engaged with dur
ing the last year was one seeking to Sc
cure for stockmen of the range, or less
unsettled country than of Iowa and
Illinois, emergency warnings of ap-
preaching storms. Such service will
be of great benefit to stockmen, as it
will allow them to make arrangements
for the protection of their herds before
the storm is upon them.
f. II. Brandenburg, section director
of the weather bureau at Denver, as
sisted the association in this matter
with the government, and a letter re-
ceived from him yesterday by the sec
| rotary of the association says: "Pur-
suant to our understanding, l look up
in the interest of the live stockmen the
matter of a change in the regulations
governing the issue of special warnings,
and I am pleased to say that Prof.
| Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau, has issued instructions to the
effect that emergency or special war
ings be issued when prolonged spells
of abnormally cold weather, high
northerly winds with snow, or heavy
falls of snow are indicated for any sec
ton. and that special warnings also be
issued when unreasonable or abnorm-
ally heavy rains are indicated for any
section. Heretofore these warnings
have been restricted to a few selected
points in each state. 1t is, therefore,
very gratifying to know that in future
kilograms conveying intelligence Of
the above described character will be
sent to no fewer than 1o2 points in Col
orado and a pr~oportionate number of
points in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho,
Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Kansas and Texas"
Salt Lake City is the latest candidate
for the convention of 1901. The Utah
delegation will represent that they
have, in the famous Mormon taber-
nacle, the finest building on the globe
for convention purposes, that they have
as good railway and hotel facilities as
any city on the continent, and that her
citizens will deposit in bank a bond
for all the money necessary to carry on
the meeting. Chicago, Kansas City and
several other towns will make fiat
tering offers for the meeting, but the