The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-05
SEND GREETING
To ROOSEVELT
Resolutions Adopted by National
Livestock Convention.
DISCUSS CATTLE INTERESTS
PAPERS ARE READ FROM DELE
GATES FROM THE WEST.

Chicago. Ills, Dec. 4-The fifth day of
the international Livestock exposition
attracted the greatest crowd ever assem-
bled at the Chicago stock yards, the
pavilions pens and yards being crowded
almost TO their capacity. Governor
Toole Of Montana was among the spec
tators.
The fat Hereford steer Woods Prin-
cipal, to which the championship of the
show was awarded yesterday. was sold
today to A. G. Swenson of New York
for 50 cents a yound.
The combination sale of Aberdeen-An-
gus breeding stock in the main pavilion
this afternoon was most successful.
Ninety-seven cattle sold at an average
of S3l4 per head.
The convention today adopted resolu-
tons VOicing their satisfaction in the
fact that a man who understands the
cattle interests sits in the presidents
chair at Washington The resolutions are
as follows:
Whereas. The inscrutabIe will of the
Divine Ruler of nations has seen fit to
take from US the beloved and deeply la
mented president, William Mckinley, and
has elevated to this position Theodore
Roosevelt. who has taken the reins Of
government with a firm hand and has
in his first public message to congress
displayed a keen insight into the needs
Of the people and has voiced in vigorous
tones the demands of the people for
progress in the right direction, therefore
be It
Greeting to the President.
Resolved. That we send greeting to
President Roosevelt, assuring him of the
loyalty and support of the stOckmen of
the country in all his undertakings for
the good of the people We recognize in
our new chief executive one who is ia
no fnfirr ufr NO aV0f
who has welded lariet and branding
iron and knows personally of the joys,
the hardships and the fatigues of life on
the ranch and range. The cowboy on
the range and the stOCkman on the ranch
all feel that IN President Roosevelt the
nation has a loyal, honest and fearless
ruler and the livestock industry has a
friend at court in the person OF one who
knows the needs and necessities Of that
industry"
F. G. Hagenbarth Of Idaho read a pa
per on the ''AdulteratiOn of Wool" and
said that such adulteration deprived the
WOOl-grOWer Of much enlarged mar
ket and was therefore a material injury
to his interests. He urged the passage
Dy congress OF bill providing for the
inspection Of WOODEN goods and shOddy
and the proper stamping Of the same.
fine of from $50 to $500 to be imposed
for each violation of the law BY a manu-
factuTeT and from 500 to 81 200 for a
dealer who buys and sells unstamped
Forest Reserve Grazing.
Clifford Pinchot. government forester.
spoke Of The Grazing Problem in the
Forest Reserves. He said there were
certain places where the interests harm
fully affected by grazing in the forest
reserves were so overwhelmingly great
that grazing was out of the question
among others the Bull Run forest re-
serves in oregon and the reserves in
southern California, but there was a vast
region in which nothing buI reasonable
regulation was acquired to meet the
grazing business and to demonstrate that
it might always. as it always should. be
a help and not hindrance TO every other
interest in the community.
Sterling Morton. eX-SecTetary of agri-
culture, read paper entitled The In
consistency of the Grout Bill which
provides for tax upon butterine and
OleOmargarine
Professor Frederick Y. CorYille. botan-
ist of the department of agriculture.
spoke on Poisonous Plants on the
Range"
Resolutions were then presented to the
convention and adopted as follows;
That Arizona and New Mexico be adj
mitted to statehood.
That duties on hides be retained so
long as the man who manufactures the d
into different articles is protected by the
tariff.