The Glenwood post., 1905-11-18

SERVES ndu come TO stay ana he made
prediction that 10 per cent of the
cattlemen in the meeting after giving
the reserve policy year $ trial would
not abolish it if they could.
Fred Light then took the floor and
made an impassioned appeal to the
cowmen present to oppose with all
their power the forest reserves. He
thought the forest reserves had no
other use but to furnish permanent
job to a lot of fellows who knew moth
ing of the stock business or the needs
of the stocKmen He said he wanted
to see everyone else prosper but he
wanted little prosperity himself
He wanted to educate his childIen
but he could not do it if the govern.
ment swooped down and took the grass
away from him. Mr. Light told of
the hardships of the pioneer the
trail blazers and concluded with the
serves; if we must have the reserves
we want no grazing tax and if we
must have the reserves and the tax the
cattlemen claim the privilege of say
iIg who shall be placed in charge of
the reserves for we don't want to be
forever be at the mercy of some i'm
practical young fellow from South
Carolina or fellow who goes to Glen
wood to take the examination I'D
mounts his horse from the wrong
side. - This seemed to be the pop
ular sentiment of the meeting and Mr.
Light was applauded.
He cited several of the rulings
which have been enforced OH the Bat.
tlenient reserve which he said had
worked great hardship on the stock
men. light said t. e sawmill men got
into trouble and went to Washington
to get out and in doing so had put the
cowmen in trouble and he did not
think this was right. He said if the
grazing fee were enforced it would
take $3, 645 from the stockmen to pay
this tax from Pitkin county alone.
Mr.. Koch said the only answer he
could make to that was that the herds
of Pitkin county had increased mighty
fast since the assessor made his an
nual visit last spring as that official
was only able to find abont :, 600 cattle
in the whole county which at the
maximum charge would only amount
to q, 45O. ''And right here said
Mr.. Koch, "is the real meat in the
cocoanut. The men with the small
herds cannot we'll make false returns
as all their neighbors know their ex
act number of cattle while too often
the assessor must depend on the large
owner and it is safe to say he never
over est imates his herd Koch said
the fact that the large as we'll as small
owners would be obliged to make
true returns to the government was
so far as he had observed, the real
cause of protest as he noticed that
nearly all objection came from the
large owners.
John White, pioneer of Garfield
and Pitkin counties, was called up
on and described long conversation
he had had with F. A. Silcox, super
visor in charge of the Holy Cross
Forest reserve and he had thought the
reserves might work to the advantage
of the stockmen provided the admin
istration would always be right but
he had heard it intimated that the
salary of a forest ranger was less than
half of his income and in that case he
thought cowman would not have
much show unless he stood in with
the officer. He believed it was all
right to protect the timber but hard
ly thought it was just the thing to
start in with sawmills. This raised
a laugh at the expense of Harry Koch
who took the jibe good naturedly
At FORMER meeting the association
had passed a resolution fixing certain
days of each month for gathering cat
tie from the range. Some claimed
this was to prevent parties constantly
chasing the cattle about over the range
and Charley Sewell thought it was
all right. When it was stated that
the resolution was suggested by Gene
Grubb, 1t was all off with that reso.
luton, for WASH t Gene in the employ
of the beef trust and didn't that very
resolution emanate from the trust,
and wouldn't they take advantage of
it in buying cattle to the great loss
of the cowmen2 Sure.
George Swigert moved that the res
olution be rescinded and in the course
OF his rem arks said he didn't care
much about it personally inasmuch as
the government had already agreed to
lease him 320 acres of pasture land at
four cents an acre and allow him to
fence it.
Well. say, if George had exploded
stick of dynamite right in the cen
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