The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-07
DELEGATES PRESENT FROM Ev.
cry STATE IN ASSOCIATION.
MANY INTERESTING PAPERS
p. B. Moss Gives History of the Sheep
Industry In the Yellow
stone Valley.

Helena. Mont, Feb. 4.-[Special tc
The Gazette. The fifth annual meet
ing of the Pacific Northwest Wool
Growers association convened in the
Auditorium this afternoon. About 15(
sheepmen and others were presen,
from Montana and the other states in
the association. Governor Toole wei
coined the visitors to Montana and
Frank Edwards, mayor of Helena
spoke, for the city. President T. C
Power delivered an address urging
sheepmen to organize for mutual ben
eft, contending that by organization
their interests could be better protect
ed. Secretary ]. w. Bailey of Port
land presented a brief report j. A
Ferguson. commissioner of labor ant
agriculture read a paper upon the
possibilities of Wool Manufacturing
in the West"
President Power appointed the fol
lowing committees:
EXecutive-R. c. Judson, Oregon;
T. S. Blythe, Washington; Joseph H
Cans. Wyoming; j. Hickock, Utah
F. R. Gooding, Idaho; P. B. Moss
Montana.
Resolutions-R. A. Salway, Wyo
ming; R. G. Judson, Oregon; J. D
Holiday, Washington; H. H. Nelson
and William Lindsay, Montana.
This evening there was illustrated
lectures by State Veterinarian M. E.
Knowles and Professor Emil Starr
upon, "Scab in Sheep" Veterinary
Hlckock of Utah also spoke.
The attendance at the convention is
larger than was expected. 1t is by all
odds the largest gathering of wool
growers ever held in Montana. Ev-
cry county having sheep is represent
ed by one or more large wool grow
ers. The convention will last all day
tomorrow and conclude Thursday af-
ternoon The people of Helena are
laying themselves out to entertain
the visitors.
Governor Toole on behalf of the
State welcomed the association to Hell
n in his address he referred to the
Northern Securities company, as the
New Salvation company of which
he said in part:
The special sublime mission of this
new Messiah. as we are told, is the
00oroino Nf III roi1rooI irfaroc%o ~ 49,
northwestern states under one man
agement. in order to effectually reduce
freight and passenger rates to meet
the just demand of that omnipreset
beneficient spirit abroad in the land.
At first it was feared that there were
insuperable barriers. but. remember
ing that the original object and pres
ent purpose of this enterprise, al
though not expressly stated in it's
charter, was not to inflict evils or i'm
pose burdens upon the people; but in
reality to confer benefits and bles-
sings, this objection was readily dis
posed of and hastily brushed aside.
Whereupon many wholesale reduc-
tons were projected and scheduled
for January l, but owning to a strong
northwest wind Or some other unto
ward influences they have not yet
materialized in Montana. Yet. per-
chance, if the spirit inculcated should
no be extended to government, but
confined solely to corporations. it is
by no means certain after we have liv-
ed a while in refined idleness and lol-
led for a time in the lap of luxury.
the present generous management
may not be displaced and these cor
poration bounties summarily with
drawn, because, alas, for this short
lived race of ours, all things must
have an end, and even so will it be
with the new salvation company, for
be it not forgotten that power to re-
duce rates involves power to increase
rates.
Helena, Feb. 5.-ISpecial to The
Gazette. The wool growers today
passed resolutions endorsing the
Grosvenor pure wool bill which is
aimed at the use of shoddy as a substi-
tue for wool, and went on record as
opposed to the McCleary oleomar-
garine bill now before congress.
The convention got into a wrangle
over the oleomargarine resolution, the
Oregon members opposing it and all
Others favoring it. Quite an animated
debate ensued. The resolution was
finally passed with only the Oregon
men dissenting.
Secretary Bailey of Oregon, who had
opposed the resolution, Indignantly
resigned the .secretaryship of the as
ISOLATION, but later was prevailed upon